Iron Systems is an innovative, customer-focused provider of custom-built computing infrastructure platforms such as network servers, storage, OEM/ODM appliances & embedded systems. For more than 15 years, customers have trusted us for our innovative problem-solving combined with holistic design, engineering, manufacturing, logistics, and global support services.

Job Title: Supply Chain Inventory Associate
Location: Remote USA

TEAM

• The AI, Compute, and Storage (ACS) team within the Global Supply Chain Operations (GSCO) group is responsible for teaming with our supply chain partners to build, deliver, and enable AI and Compute and Storage infrastructure.
• The computing foundation is its Data Centers, and key strategic partnerships with Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) across the computing and Storage industry are a crucial piece in building and operationalizing this infrastructure.
• The ACS-GSCO is responsible for managing these relationships, setting and achieving key performance metrics (ex. On-time delivery) from our ODM partners while working dynamically to unlock challenges on the tactical (ex. supply), strategic (ex. sourcing strategy), and foundational (ex. process overhaul) levels for both ODMs.
• The team is dynamic, needing to coordinate across engineering, NPI, mass production, and sustaining challenges all within a given cycle, while also being subject matter experts, with deep familiarity across ODM management, production, manufacturing, and delivery best practices.
• Put simply: the ACS-GSCO team is composed of flexible problem solvers who build relationships both within- and beyond-
• We have to achieve industry-leading performance and pave the way for Meta's AI-enabled infrastructure.
• The Supply Chain Inventory Associate is an important role for the ACS-GSCO team, playing a pivotal part in operationalizing our global supply chain.
• This role will play an important part in interfacing with all of our operational compute-and-storage supply and systems to enable worldwide infrastructure. Serving as part of our business enablement team, this individual plays a crucial role in ensuring material readiness, inventory strategy, and ODM performance line up with the dynamic needs of our infrastructure program.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Minimum qualifications:

• BS in Business, Mathematics, Engineering, or related technical field or equivalent combination of education.
• Experience, and/or a demonstrated enthusiasm to learn about, supply chains in technology, hyper-scale data centers, the semiconductor industry, and/or associated industries.
• Analytical and operational experience with an understanding of supply/demand, manufacturing, fulfillment, and logistics.
• Previous experience with PO management and supplier transactions 5. A demonstrated attention to detail and a focus on driving accuracy 6. Interpersonal and communication skills with experience coordinating across and amongst teams

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with Sourcing managers and suppliers to ensure inventory is transacted and managed between Meta's manufacturers and our third-party warehousing partners
• Triage and support issues across the inventory management space
• Identify and stand up new inventory locations, in partnership with our sourcing managers, to support Meta's inventory strategy
• Govern and manage inventory transactions; ensure execution and validation of the transaction
• Ensure inventory partners comply with critical reporting and consumption reports
• Support weekly vendor management calls with inventory suppliers

Preferred qualifications:

• An interest, or previous exposure to, computer manufacturing, production, and configuration.
• An ability to rapidly understand the terminology, and configuration components, within the hardware domain
• Experience interfacing with internal & external partners in an entrepreneurial and cross-functional environment, requiring a latitude for independent judgment while coordinating people and technical resources.