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Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.\nGraphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.\nJob Summary\nWe are seeking a Sourcing Manager - Memory and Storage to lead strategic sourcing activities across Graphcore’s memory and storage technology portfolio supporting AI infrastructure platforms. This role will be responsible for developing sourcing strategies, managing supplier relationships, leading commercial negotiations, and ensuring long-term supply continuity across key memory and storage technologies.\nWorking closely with Engineering, Product Management, Operations, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain teams, the successful candidate will influence technology roadmaps, supplier strategies, capacity planning, and cost optimisation initiatives while balancing quality, performance, scalability, and supply resilience requirements. The role requires a combination of strong commercial expertise, technical understanding of infrastructure technologies, and the ability to build effective partnerships across internal and external stakeholders.\nThe Team\nThe Global Sourcing Management (GSM) team defines and executes supplier strategies across Graphcore’s hardware and infrastructure ecosystem.\nThe team partners closely with Engineering, Product Management, Operations, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain functions to establish strategic supplier relationships that enable technology development, infrastructure deployment, operational excellence, and business growth. The team is responsible for identifying sourcing opportunities, managing supply chain risks, securing capacity, and ensuring Graphcore has access to the technologies and suppliers required to support current and future AI infrastructure platforms.\nResponsibilities and Duties\nOwn sourcing strategy development and execution for memory and storage technologies supporting Graphcore’s AI infrastructure platforms.\nDevelop and maintain strategic relationships with memory and storage suppliers, driving performance across cost, quality, technology, capacity, and delivery metrics.\nPartner with Engineering and Product Management teams to influence technology roadmaps, supplier selection decisions, and infrastructure platform strategies.\nLead supplier engagement activities including RFIs, RFQs, commercial evaluations, business awards, and contract negotiations.\nNegotiate pricing agreements, supply agreements, capacity commitments, and long-term commercial frameworks that support business objectives.\nDevelop and maintain cost models, market intelligence, and total cost of ownership analyses to support sourcing decisions and negotiation strategies.\nMonitor technology developments and industry trends across memory, storage, AI infrastructure, and data centre ecosystems to inform sourcing strategy.\nDrive supplier performance management through regular business reviews, scorecards, corrective action plans, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nIdentify and mitigate supply chain risks through supplier diversification, capacity planning, contingency strategies, and business continuity planning.\nPartner with Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and Legal teams to ensure successful product launches, production ramps, and ongoing supply support.\nSupport new product introduction activities by aligning supplier readiness, manufacturing capability, and supply availability with programme requirements.\nProvide regular reporting and recommendations to leadership regarding supplier performance, market conditions, commercial opportunities, and supply chain risks.\nCandidate Profile\nEssential\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or a related discipline.\nExperience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, procurement, or supply chain roles within technology, electronics, infrastructure, semiconductor, or hardware-focused environments.\nStrong understanding of memory and storage technologies, including DRAM, SSD, HDD, and related infrastructure components.\nExperience developing and executing sourcing strategies for complex technology products and supply chains.\nDemonstrated success negotiating commercial agreements, supplier contracts, and long-term strategic partnerships.\nStrong commercial and analytical skills, including cost modelling, pricing analysis, and total cost of ownership methodologies.\nExperience managing supplier performance and driving measurable improvements across cost, quality, delivery, and supply continuity.\nAbility to collaborate effectively with engineering and technical teams to evaluate technologies, suppliers, and sourcing options.\nStrong project management, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.\nDesirable\nExperience sourcing memory, storage, server, networking, compute, or AI infrastructure technologies.\nKnowledge of data centre, cloud infrastructure, high-performance computing, or AI platform architectures.\nExperience supporting new product introduction, production ramp, lifecycle management, and end-of-life transitions for infrastructure hardware.\nFamiliarity with global supplier ecosystems across North America, Europe, and Asia.\nExperience developing supplier risk management, resiliency, and business continuity programmes.\nKnowledge of manufacturing processes, supply chain planning, and supplier industrialisation practices.\nExperience using data analytics or AI-enabled tools to improve sourcing processes, decision-making, or operational efficiency.\nProgram or project management experience within technology supply chains.\nIn addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing and financial future. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), disability and life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, commuter benefits, wellness services and an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. 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