Staff Supplier Integration Manager - ARC

NextGenEnergyJobs; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Fusion Systems seeks a strategic supplier management professional to accelerate fusion powerplant development at our Massachusetts facility. You will partner with engineering, R&D and economics teams to optimize sourcing, supplier selection, and contracting in a global tech context.

The role emphasizes building category strategies, risk management, and supporting investors and partners with diligent analysis and transparent reporting.

Qualifications

• Typing, standing or sitting for extended periods.
• Willingness to travel or work nights/weekends/on-call regularly.
• Work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, high voltage and cryogenics.

Responsibilities

• Drive powerplant value engineering, cost reductions, technology selection and increase TRL of fusion hardware.
• Take an active role in techno-economic model development and inputs for future powerplants.
• Provide feedback to R&D and engineering to reduce ARC costs and LCOE.
• Advise on opportunities to acquire companies, develop joint ventures, drive partnerships, and strengthen supply chain readiness.
• Develop category and commodity strategies including spend analysis, benchmarking, cost and market analysis.
• Support customers, sponsors, partners and investors in diligence processes.

Job description

About Commonwealth Fusion Systems:

Responsibilities

• Partner with Chief Engineer, R&D organization and Fusion Economics teams to drive powerplant value engineering, cost reductions, technology selection, and increase TRL of fusion specific hardware


• Take an active role in the techno-economic model development and inputs for future powerplants


• Serve as a feedback loop to the R&D and engineering organizations to understand the key levers to continuously drive down ARC costs and LCOE


• Advise Supply Chain, Open Innovation, Government Affairs, and C-Suite teams on potential opportunities to acquire companies, develop joint ventures, drive public and private partnerships, and other creative or sophisticated strategies to drive supply chain readiness and reliability of fusion powerplants


• Stay informed of the latest world wide state of fusion industry, how major and minor players are moving in the market, and has an overall high fusion industry acumen to help drive decisions within CFS - this person is seen as an expert in the fusion supply chain


• Develop and lead category and commodity strategies including spend analysis, benchmarking, cost, market analysis, supplier selection and contracting in the global technology & economic context


• Support potential customers, sponsors, partners, and investors in diligence processes


• Support management in developing scope, budget, and schedule for new projects based on matching expertise and capabilities to research needs and project opportunities


• Respectfully raises execution or design concerns, providing a sound rationale or data to support their perspective.


• Support Investor Relations, Business Development, Corporate Finance, and Engineering teams as needed, and on-demand with queries and reports


• Develop, drive and execute annual and strategic plan with supporting commodity strategies


• Timely execute strategies to align with business growth and new product introductions


• Build and deepen relationships with key supplier leadership


• Align with Engineering, Technology, Business, Operations, Finance and Quality for world class performance


• Manage sourcing processes and performance through an effective management operating system


• Prepare briefing materials, write and publish research results in internal technical reports and public facing presentations, including collaborations with key external partners


• Manage organizational effectiveness through continuous improvement and functional transformation


• Relentlessly gathers intelligence on the health of strategic suppliers’ business and informs Sr. Leadership of long-term risk and proposed countermeasures


• Conduct periodic supplier business reviews to communicate supplier performance to internal and supplier management teams


• Conduct site surveys and business evaluations of existing and potential suppliers


• Serve as a point of escalation and resolution of corrective actions with suppliers


• Contribute to the resolution of sourcing issues from CFS or their subtiers

Requirements

• Perform activities such as typing, standing, or sitting for extended periods of time


• Willingness to travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call regularly


• Work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead (Pb), high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics