Global Supply Chain Manager

The role

You will lead strategic sourcing for critical components and assemblies for robotic systems. You will collaborate with Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, and Operations to drive cost improvements, scale production, and build a resilient supply base.

What you will do

• Define and own category strategies for key components and assemblies.
• Achieve or exceed cost targets through modeling, analysis, and negotiations.
• Negotiate commercial agreements including piece price, tooling/NRE, and contractual terms.
• Manage supply chain risk through assessment of capacity, geopolitics, logistics, and supplier capability.
• Partner with Hardware Engineering to drive design direction to reduce landed costs.
• Drive supplier readiness across prototype, pilot, and mass production builds.
• Develop and execute planning, logistics and warehousing strategy.
• Summarize and escalate supply, cost, and quality issues and lead corrective action plans.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in sourcing or procurement for high volume manufacturing
• Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent experience
• Solid category knowledge across mechanical, electrical (PCB/PCBA), and/or electro-mechanical components and assemblies
• Strong negotiation and contract management skills
• Proven experience leading cross-functional work-streams with Engineering, Operations, Finance, and NPI teams
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, potentially on short notice

Nice to have

• Extensive supply chain or manufacturing operations experience with electronics components, injection molding, stamping, sheet metal fabrication, casting, CNC machining, printed circuit board fabricati
• Prior experience sourcing, evaluating and onboarding new suppliers in new regions
• Strong data analysis and visualization skills

Benefits

• Unlimited Flexible Time Off
• Health Insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Commuter Benefits
• Referral Bonus
• 401k
• Equity

About the company

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce. They are training robot AGI to power a proprietary generalist supply chain superhumanoid.