Spares Sourcing Intelligence Manager

Spares Sourcing Intelligence Manager

Spares Sourcing Intelligence Manager

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

What you’ll do:

Key Responsibilities

Spare Parts Sourcing Intelligence

• Own sourcing intelligence for critical spare parts commodities, including HDD, SSD, memory, CPU, GPU, and other server, storage, and networking components.
• Develop commodity-level benchmarks and intelligence on cost drivers, technology transitions, lifecycle risks, and market pricing trends.
• Support sourcing strategies, negotiations, and business planning with data-backed insights and scenarios.

Supply Assurance & Shortage Intelligence

• Provide analytical support to predict, assess, and mitigate shortages and backorders across the spare parts supply chain.
• Perform root-cause analysis of supply issues across forecast accuracy, supplier performance, capacity constraints, lead times, and quality or logistics disruptions.
• Translate insights into actionable recommendations to support shortage recovery and prevention plans.

Commercial & Supplier Performance Analytics

• Support sourcing initiatives with cost analysis, should-cost models, and scenario evaluations for multiple commodities and suppliers.
• Track supplier performance metrics such as on-time delivery, fill rates, commitments vs. actuals, and recovery effectiveness.
• Enable fact-based discussions with suppliers through structured analytics and intelligence.

Kitting & Network Intelligence

• Develop intelligence on spare parts kitting service providers, processes, and cost structures.
• Analyze kitting capacity, constraints, and operational risks to support sourcing and network optimization decisions.

Digital Enablement & Continuous Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement in sourcing and supply assurance analytics using advanced Excel, BI tools, and AI-enabled techniques.
• Define analytics and data requirements to support digital tools, dashboards, and future-state planning systems.
• Identify opportunities for structural improvements, resilience, and long-term cost optimization in the spare parts ecosystem.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with Sourcing, Supply Assurance, Operations, Finance, and Digital teams to align intelligence with business priorities and execution needs.

What You Need to Bring:

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Analytics, or equivalent; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• ~15 years of experience in spare parts sourcing, supply assurance, supply chain analytics, or commodity intelligence, preferably in high-tech or manufacturing environments.
• Solid understanding of end-to-end spare parts supply chains, including procurement, suppliers, kitting, logistics, and aftermarket support.
• Experience supporting shortage management, recovery initiatives, and supply risk mitigation through analytics and insights.
• Ability to convert complex supply chain data into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.

Knowledge and Skills:

Analytical & Technical Skills

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for modeling, analysis, and executive communication.
• Experience with BI tools (e.g., Power BI) and data querying tools (e.g., SQL) and supply chain modeling skills preferred.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled analytics concepts and digital transformation initiatives is a plus.
• Applies cause and effect thinking to identify complex or emerging contract risk areas.

Professional Attributes

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence sourcing and operations leaders
• Strong Program Management Skills, incorporating multiple projects
• Structured, detail-oriented thinker with a strong problem-solving mindset.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, global environment across time zones.
• Curious, proactive learner with a passion for analytics-driven supply chain improvement.
• Advanced team leadership and influencing skills.

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Complex Project Management, Contract Management, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Customer Experience Strategy, Data Science, Design Thinking, Empathy, Engineering Product Development, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Global Sourcing, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Manufacturing Supply Chain, Negotiation {+ 4 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Supply Chain & Operations

Job Level:

Master

    

    

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Experience Level

Mid Level