Staff/Senior Staff Global Supply Manager

Speedrun Talent Network; Scotts Valley (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Heron Power is seeking a Staff/Senior Staff Global Supply Manager to lead strategic sourcing for critical components powering Heron Link. You will collaborate with the Head of Supply Chain and cross-functional leaders to build a resilient supply base, manage product cost, and drive supplier performance.

Open to early to mid-career candidates with potential to scale responsibilities as the company grows. Expect travel domestically and internationally as projects demand.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Define and own the category strategies for key components and assemblies.
• Achieve or exceed cost targets through data-driven should-cost modeling and negotiations.
• Lead RFx processes and negotiate commercial agreements.
• Manage risk with capacity, geopolitics, logistics, and supplier tech roadmaps.
• Drive supplier readiness across prototype to mass production builds.
• Develop logistics and warehousing strategy with factory operations.
• Escalate key supply, cost, and quality issues and implement corrective actions.

Skills

Negotiation

Contract management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

travel readiness

Data analysis

Education

Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, or Business Administration

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

What to Expect

Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.

Our first goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid. Heron Power’s leadership team is made up of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products over the past decade.

We understand that no one individual knows everything. We will all learn a lot together and from each other. We strive to build a collaborative, enriching environment conducive to personal, technical, and career growth. You can expect to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, driven by first principles engineering, solving difficult problems.

Job Overview

As a Staff/Senior Staff Global Supply Manager, you’ll lead strategic sourcing for the critical components and assemblies that power Heron Link. In this pivotal role, you’ll partner closely with the Head of Supply Chain and leaders across Finance, Design Engineering, NPI and Manufacturing to build a resilient supply base. You will ensure the commercial success of Heron’s supply chain, overseeing product cost and supplier performance.

How You Will Contribute

• Define and own the category strategies for key components and assemblies.

• Achieve or exceed cost targets through data-driven should-cost modeling, market and commodity analysis, and disciplined negotiations.

• Lead RFx processes and negotiate commercial agreements, including piece pricing, tooling/NRE, and key contractual terms.

• Manage business risk through scenario assessment of capacity, geopolitics, logistics, and supplier technology / commercial roadmaps. Actively partner with the engineering team to identify/mitigate supply and demand challenges

• Drive supplier readiness across prototype, pilot, and mass production builds to ensure smooth scale-up and launch execution.

• Develop and execute the logistics and warehousing strategy associated with and in partnership with factory operations

• Escalate key supply, cost, and/or quality issues with partner teams and collaboratively develop corrective action plans

What You Will Bring

We’re open to early to mid-career candidates with or without leadership experience. Scope and responsibilities will scale with the right candidate.

Must Have Requirements

• 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 to drive alignment and execute sourcing strategies

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally often with short notice

Nice to Haves

• Extensive supply chain or manufacturing operations experience with power semiconductors, electronic components, injection molding, stamping, sheet metal fabrication, printed circuit board fab and assembly and adhesives

• 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.)

If you are passionate about technology and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we would love to hear from you. Join us in accelerating the electrification of everything at Heron Power.

Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. The base salary range for the role is from $170,000 to $220,000.