Lead strategic sourcing and supply chain management for innovative power electronics at Heron Power.
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In the role of Supply Chain Manager at Heron Power, the individual will oversee strategic sourcing for essential components and assemblies, ensuring the supply chain's commercial success. Key skills include expertise in high-volume manufacturing procurement, strong negotiation abilities, and experience in cross-functional collaboration with engineering and operations teams. This position is suitable for early to mid-career professionals with a background in supply chain management or engineering, particularly those familiar with electrical and mechanical components. Heron Power fosters a collaborative environment, emphasizing personal and technical growth.
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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.
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.
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
We’re open to early to mid-career candidates with or without leadership experience. Scope and responsibilities will scale with the right candidate.
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
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.)
Heron Power provides competitive compensation (salary and equity) and benefits. The base salary range for the role is from $170,000 to $220,000.
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