Principal Supply Chain Manager

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development.

Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you'll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work.

If you join our team, you'll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About The Role

We're hiring a Principal Supply Chain Manager to drive analytical rigor, forecasting accuracy, and capital efficiency across Nscale's global hardware supply chain. This role partners with the VP, Supply Chain Planning to translate demand signals, deployment plans, and infrastructure expansion roadmaps into actionable procurement, allocation, and inventory strategies. You'll lead cross‑functional efforts across commercial, infrastructure, finance, and supply chain planning to ensure GPUs and supporting hardware are available in the right region, at the right time, and in the right configuration.

Your leadership will be critical in helping Nscale plan and scale hardware availability across multiple global datacenter regions while reducing excess inventory, stranded capital, and supply risk.

What you'll be doing

• Develop short‑and mid‑term demand forecasts for GPUs, servers, networking, and supporting infrastructure


• Translate commercial pipeline and expansion plans into hardware demand models


• Lead scenario modeling for capacity expansion and regional demand analysis


• Drive forecast accuracy improvements through data analysis and process refinement

• Build and maintain supply visibility models across GPU vendors and OEMs


• Identify and mitigate allocation risks, lead times, and region‑specific supply constraints


• Lead supply concentration risk assessment and mitigation strategy development


• Make allocation decisions across global datacenter regions in partnership with cross‑functional stakeholders

• Analyze inventory levels, turns, aging, and capital utilization


• Identify excess or underutilized hardware and recommend rebalancing strategies


• Optimize buffer stock and spare pooling strategies to balance service levels and capital efficiency


• Maintain reporting on inventory position and capital efficiency metrics

• Lead cross‑region allocation analysis to balance customer demand and hardware availability


• Oversee new datacenter launches from a hardware readiness perspective


• Analyze logistics and import/export constraints affecting deployment timelines

• Design and maintain dashboards covering demand versus supply position, GPU allocation status, and inventory health


• Develop strategic analysis to support supply chain decisions and business planning


• Lead alignment with Finance on hardware forecasting and capital planning strategy


• Conduct risk modeling and sensitivity analysis for supply planning and scenario planning

KPIs

• Forecast accuracy


• Inventory turns and aging


• Stranded capital risk


• Procurement lead time visibility

About You

• 10–12 years of experience in supply chain management, demand planning, or procurement operations


• Experience in datacenter, cloud infrastructure, or hyperscale environments


• Demonstrated experience with GPU‑based supply chains or hardware procurement at scale


• Understanding of hardware lifecycle economics in capital‑intensive environments


• Proven track record managing OEM and hardware vendor relationships, with logistics coordination expertise


• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial modeling, with ability to build complex analytical models


• SQL skills and comfort working with operational datasets


• Proficiency with supply chain planning systems such as SAP, Anaplan, or NetSuite (hands‑on or strategic oversight)


• Exposure to BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI


• Strong communication skills with the ability to deliver executive‑level insights and strategic recommendations

What we can offer you

At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core. Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months.