Formenergy
Staff Global Supply Manager
Berkeley, CA. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will take full ownership of a strategic sourcing category, including the supply base, relationships, and contracts. You will partner with Leadership, Engineering, and Supply Chain teams to drive sourcing strategy and negotiate commercial terms.
What you will do
- Take full ownership of a strategic sourcing category
- Partner with Leadership, Supply Chain, and Engineering to shape sourcing strategy
- Win commercial terms through negotiation regarding pricing, lead times, and risk
- Run the full sourcing process from discovery through contracting
- Protect Form from risk through cost analysis and risk analysis
- Build category strategy and playbooks from first principles
- Track supplier capacity, competitive dynamics, and technology roadmaps
Required qualifications
- Proven track record in strategic sourcing in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment
- Ability to learn new technical categories quickly with limited oversight
- Fluency in commercial terms, contract structures, and IP concepts
- Fact-driven and detail-obsessed mindset
- History of leading high-stakes negotiations or turning around broken supplier relationships
- Magnetic communication skills
- Ability to work in the US
- Ability to travel globally as needed
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Stock options
- 100% medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
- 80% healthcare premiums for dependents
- At least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
- Up to 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents
- Generous vacation policies
- Relocation assistance
About the company
Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company revolutionizing energy storage with multi-day technology. They are scaling up battery manufacturing at their first high-volume facility in West Virginia.