Base Power

Global Supply Manager - Electromechanical

Austin, TX. Posted 15 days ago

The role

The Global Supply Manager owns relationships with contract manufacturers who build electromechanical top-level assemblies. This role manages total delivered cost and coordinates with engineering, manufacturing, and logistics to scale production.

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 back up negotiations.
  • 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 leadership.

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of strategic sourcing or procurement in hardware manufacturing.
  • Track record negotiating contracts and managing suppliers through escalations, including at 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 30% of the time.

Nice to have

  • Experience sourcing top-level assemblies through CMs or EMS providers in EV, energy storage, consumer electronics, or industrial hardware.
  • Fluency in CM labor cost structures, value-add negotiation, and rolling up total delivered cost across a multi-commodity BOM.
  • Experience negotiating MSAs, SOWs, NRE, and the cost of engineering changes.
  • Experience helping decide what to build in-house and what to leave with a CM.
  • Experience with MRP or ERP systems such as Odoo, SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite.

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 speed to provide whole-home backup and grid stability.