Supply Chain Manager - Instrumentation & Controls (Austin)

Aalo Atomic; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Aalo Atomics is seeking a hands-on Supply Chain Manager to build and scale our end-to-end supply chain for Instrumentation and Controls. This role blends strategy with execution—negotiating supplier agreements in the morning, creating POs in the afternoon, and shaping scalable planning processes as we grow.

You will own supplier relationships, material planning, purchasing execution, and inventory strategies to enable scalable production.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in purchasing, sourcing, or supply chain in a product-based company.
• Experience with electrical sourcing and/or instrumentation and control supply chain.
• Experience in a high-growth environment, strongly preferred.
• Background in manufacturing, hardware, or complex assemblies preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering and Quality to identify, qualify, and onboard suppliers that can scale with us.
• Develop and execute make/buy strategies with cross functional team.
• Negotiate pricing, lead times, MOQs, and contracts.
• Develop dual-source strategies to reduce risk.
• Build strong, long‑term supplier partnerships, not just transactional relationships.
• Issue and manage purchase orders through delivery.
• Negotiate expedites by leveraging supplier relationships.
• Facilitate the resolution of supplier quality, delivery, and invoicing issues.
• Build lightweight but effective planning processes using high level forecast to drive purchasing for long lead material.
• Key contributor to MRP implementation, reorder point and safety stock strategies.
• Partner with Sales/Operations to implement forecast processes.
• Establish clear inventory visibility and reporting.
• Partner with Engineering on new product introductions (NPI).
• Work with Quality to support NQA-1 standards and Quality audits.
• Partner with Manufacturing to ensure material is in place to support manufacturing plans.
• Collaborate with Finance on invoice issues and procure to pay strategies.
• Implement supply chain processes that support sustainable growth.
• Establish supplier KPIs and performance scorecards.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Accountability

Job description

Aalo Atomics is seeking a hands-on Supply Chain Manager to build and scale our end-to-end supply chain for Instrumentation and Controls. This role blends strategy with execution—negotiating supplier agreements in the morning, creating POs in the afternoon, and shaping scalable planning processes as we grow.

You will own supplier relationships, material planning, purchasing execution, and inventory strategies to enable scalable production.