Category Manager, Steel
FluidStackGPU Cloud company
Austin, United StatesSenior
Situational Awareness
Astro Capital (NY)
7GC & Co
Armyn Capital
Autopilot Management Company
Bare Metal Ventures
Operations & Strategy
About the role
TL;DR
Own the steel category for FluidStack's modular manufacturing line and site builds.
- •The Category Manager, Steel will own the steel category for FluidStack's modular manufacturing line and site builds.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the steel category: structural steel and fabricated assemblies feeding the modular manufacturing line and site builds.
- •Source fabrication capacity across regional shops so throughput scales with the build plan, not with one shop's backlog.
- •Negotiate raw material and fabrication pricing with mechanisms that survive commodity swings.
- •Qualify fabricators on quality and capacity, and manage the load balancing across them weekly.
- •Requirements Experience sourcing structural steel or fabricated steel assemblies at industrial volume.
- •Understanding of fabrication economics: material, labor, coatings, and freight, and where each shop makes its margin.
- •Experience qualifying fabrication shops and catching the capacity overstatements in their pitch.
- •Experience managing commodity exposure with indexing or hedging rather than hoping.