Network Site Investments Manager

Meta operates one of the largest networks in the world. The Network Site Investments team is responsible for the underlying colocation facilities supporting Meta's infrastructure spanning edge to backbone deployments.The Network Site Investments Manager will act as the primary contact for product and services sourcing focusing on the Colocation business with the Metra supply base. Sourcing activities will include but not be limited to identification of product and service availability and options, developing and setting a negotiation and sourcing strategy, partnering with Meta Network Engineering to develop a business and technology roadmap for the Meta Network and driving strategic sourcing decisions on a global basis. The Network Site Investments Manager will lead and support the development, implementation and management of global strategies to provide the Meta production network with best-in-class cost, optimal flexibility, and unmatched delivery and availability performance.Working closely with the Network Engineering Team, the Network Site Investments Manager will communicate and implement strategies, contracts and pricing with an overall focus on maintaining long term partner relationships and managing total costs of ownership by incorporating efficiency.

Network Site Investments Manager Responsibilities:

• Contract Strategy and Execution: Lead the business negotiation process with internal partners and supplier. Own closure on contract. Develop negotiation approach, fallback positions, acceptable terms and conditions through to closure.
• RFx Services: Own and lead the supplier interface for all RFI, RFP and RFQ services. Partner with appropriate internal stakeholders. Present RFx results to evaluation team and drive the closure of a sourcing decision.
• SLA Performance: Measure, manage and improve supplier actual performance against negotiated SLA.
• Competitive Benchmarking: Identify key benchmark suppliers in RFx efforts. Partner to identify evaluation criterion and provide relevant data back to internal Meta team.
• Cost Modeling: Own and provide industry and actual unit and service cost data which feeds into TCO and RFx. Drive continual improvement of productivity.
• Supplier survey, audit and qualification: Lead and coordinate all efforts to survey, audit, assess and qualify new suppliers.
• Technology Roadmap: Partner with Meta Network Engineering to coordinate suppliers and review supplier technology and services roadmaps.
• On time Delivery: Measure, report and action to improve delivery performance.
• Ongoing Cost Productivity: Measure, report and action cost productivity as a function of market pricing.
• Scorecard Management: Lead measuring supplier performance, root causing issues, and driving improved performance. Own all aspects of supplier performance.
• Willing to travel about 25% of the time and work across various time zones.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering or Business related field or equivalent, plus at least 6 years of relevant experience in the colocation industry.
• At least 5 years of Sourcing or Partner Management experience in Network related products and services.
• Knowledge of purchasing, and supply chain processes, with analytical and results focused approach.
• Experience in Colocation business, overall Colocation market and associated performance and cost models.
• Product knowledge of Content Delivery Networks, Backbone Networks and IP Services, their operation and associated performance and cost models.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.