The opportunity
At Unity Technologies, we are re-inventing the way multiplayer games are built, launched, and supported! Our team focuses on providing innovative solutions that ease the development and launch of games. We proudly provide hybrid multi-cloud scaling technology and 24/7 live operations for some of the worlds biggest games. At our core, we are passionate about gaming, and keeping gamers online!

You will play a meaningful role in our Customer Success Everywhere team. You will lead procurement, negotiations, and conduct opportunity analysis across different providers. You will build and manage partnerships with Cloud Providers, Data Centers, and ISPs. You will collaborate with key external bare metal providers to develop and accomplish strategies that drive revenue for Unity and build deep and lasting supplier partnerships. You will also work collaboratively with internal team members ranging from Engineering to Technical Account Managers to Support staff, as you enable flawless launches and the ongoing success of Unity's customer base.

What you'll be doing

• Bare Metal Capacity Planning. Lead standard inventory items and supply chain to schedule material to meet stated inventory objectives. This includes and not limited to: supply chain and capacity management, forecasting to support sales pipeline, day-to-day ordering and cancelling, inventory reports, and supplier invoice reconciliation
• Identify, establish, and manage supplier relationships, initiate, quote, and support sales contracts with the goal of acquiring top-of-the-line inventory for the best negotiated price for improved revenue and reduced cost for Unity
• Handle the delivery of provisioned servers to clients by infrastructure engineers
• Establish and implement project communication plans. Provide status updates to staff and partners, and support finance with the necessary governance to ensure supplier invoice accuracy
• Develop and maintain supplier performance scorecards and regularly report results

What we're looking for

• Proven track record in bare metal purchasing with strong knowledge of general PO processes. (Quotes, Orders, Cancellations, Reconciliation etc.)
• Solid understanding of Google Suite, Slack, Excel, project management tools such as Trello and Airtable
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills with both external and internal partners including contractors and regulatory agents
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with quick turnaround times
• Ability to travel to trade shows and supplier meetings (up to 20% domestic and international travel expected)

You might also have

• Experience in the procurement of server infrastructure in multiple geographies and currencies, especially in the games industry
• Experience in supplier performance management
• High level technical understanding of server hardware

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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