Staff/Senior Staff Global Supply Manager

The role

You will lead strategic sourcing for critical components and assemblies that power Heron Link. You will partner with leaders across Finance, Design Engineering, NPI and Manufacturing to build a resilient supply base and oversee product cost and supplier performance.

What you will do

• Define and own category strategies for key components and assemblies.
• Achieve or exceed cost targets through should-cost modeling, market and commodity analysis, and negotiations.
• Lead RFx processes and negotiate commercial agreements.
• Manage business risk through scenario assessment of capacity, geopolitics, logistics, and supplier roadmaps.
• Partner with engineering to identify and mitigate supply and demand challenges.
• Drive supplier readiness across prototype, pilot, and mass production builds.
• Develop and execute logistics and warehousing strategy with factory operations.
• Escalate supply, cost, and quality issues and develop corrective action plans.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in sourcing or procurement for high volume manufacturing
• Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent experience
• Deep category knowledge across mechanical, electrical (PCB/PCBA), and/or electro-mechanical components and assemblies
• Strong negotiation and contract management skills
• Experience leading cross-functional work-streams with engineering, operations, finance, legal and NPI teams
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally often with short notice

Nice to have

• Extensive supply chain or manufacturing operations experience with power semiconductors, electronic components, injection molding, stamping, sheet metal fabrication, printed circuit board fab and asse
• Prior supplier development supporting medium voltage (34.5kV) or grid-related power electronics, such as converters, switchgear, circuit breakers, dielectric materials, and bussing
• Strong data analysis and visualization skills (Tableau, PowerBI etc.)

Benefits

• Competitive compensation (salary and equity)
• Benefits

About the company

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. The leadership team consists of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products.