Staff Supplier Integration Manager

Role Overview

• Develop and lead the supply chain strategies for the molten salt blanket, including spend analysis, benchmarking, cost, market analysis, supplier selection and contracting
• Monitor suppliers throughout the execution of the contracts
• Build and nurture relationships with key supplier leadership
• Advise Supply Chain, Open Innovation, Global Affairs, and C-Suite on potential opportunities for strategic partnership, joint ventures, acquisitions, and other creative or sophisticated strategies to drive supply chain readiness and reliability of fusion powerplants
• Partner with Legal to develop the legal framework in support of the supply chain strategies
• Partner with EHS to ensure safe operations at CFS and key suppliers, especially with regards to hazardous materials
• Partner with Supply Chain Engineers to oversee supplier development activities, including capacity expansion projects
• Support Investor Relations, Business Development, Corporate Finance, and Engineering teams as needed, and on demand with queries and reports.
• Partner with Engineering, R&D and Fusion Economics teams to drive powerplant value engineering, cost reductions, technology selection, and increase TRL of fusion specific hardware

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years minimum experience in engineering, supply chain or adjacent positions, working with suppliers or partners on technically complex projects
• High finance acumen to be able to understand a company's financial structure and strategize contract incentives
• Extensive technical knowledge of contracting for long lead time items based on project milestones
• Ability to map out and understand complex interconnected systems
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in cross-functional teams
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and projects
• Exceptional organizational and analytical skills, and a proven ability to drive complex projects with minimal oversight
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion
• Generate work plans, define milestones for own tasks, and help define processes that impact direct work
• Contribute to process improvement
• Strong organizational abilities to manage many various cases and scenarios
• Attention to detail, ensuring comprehensive analysis
• Reliable and persistent work ethic, seeing tasks through to completion
• Stays determined in the face of uncertainty and setbacks
• Ability to identify the right level of detail for a given task and flexibility to adapt to modeling both rough, quick estimates for establishing development priorities and detailed, reliable models for finalizing project specifications
• Adaptability to a start-up environment, capability to take initiative, develop own tasks and timelines, and solve broad, ambiguous problems.
• Operates with general guidance from management and increasingly takes independent ownership of developing execution approaches to assigned work
• Proven writing and communication ability, and consistent quality of work appropriate for preparing material for a broad external audience

Tech Stack

• SaltStack

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with equity
• 13 Company-wide Holidays
• Flexible vacation days
• 10 sick days
• Generous parental leave policy
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Professional growth opportunities
• Team-building activities