Base Power

Global Supply Manager - Plastics

Austin, TX. Posted 15 days ago

The role

The Global Supply Manager owns sourcing and supplier relationships for plastics, molded components, and resin parts. This person will run sourcing from RFQ to award and work with engineering, manufacturing, and logistics.

What you will do

  • Run RFQs end to end including scoping requirements, evaluating bids, and driving supplier selection.
  • Build should-cost models to benchmark pricing and find cost-downs.
  • Negotiate piece price, tooling, payment terms, and master agreements.
  • Own key supplier relationships by tracking performance and handling escalations.
  • Set commodity strategy across a global supply base.
  • Prepare suppliers for production ramp and sustained manufacturing.
  • Present recommendations on awards, cost, and risk to engineering and executive leadership.

Required qualifications

  • 3+ years of strategic sourcing or procurement in hardware manufacturing.
  • Track record negotiating contracts and managing suppliers through escalations, including the executive level.
  • Strong cost modeling and Excel skills.
  • Clear, direct written and verbal communication.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
  • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, about 25% of the time.

Nice to have

  • Sourcing experience with injection-molded plastics, LSR, thermal materials like mica and aerogel, or specialty resins and adhesives.
  • Fluency in tooling economics and mold design constraints, plus a working knowledge of injection molding, compression forming, and LSR overmolding.
  • Should-cost modeling for plastic parts, covering material, cycle time, tonnage, cavitation, secondary operations, and tooling amortization.
  • Experience negotiating tooling ownership and IP terms, and tracking resin price indexes.
  • Experience with MRP or ERP systems.

About the company

Base is America’s next-generation power company rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries. The company builds in-house and expands at a speed and cost incumbents cannot match.