Director of Operations and Supply Chain in Lausanne

About Corintis

Corintis offers innovative microfluidic cooling technologies for AI chips/GPUs and CPUs used in data centres.

Working with many of the world’s largest tech companies, our solutions improve compute sustainability and tackle the excessive electricity consumption associated with data centre cooling, which consumes more electricity than New York and London combined.

Ranked as the No.1 Engineering startup in Switzerland for 2025, Corintis offers a friendly and team-oriented workplace, bringing together 100 people from over 35 nationalities to solve the most significant computing challenges of tomorrow.

Based in the EPFL Campus in St.

Sulpice, we are closely connected to the local ecosystem and are located a few minutes' walk from Lake Geneva.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced Director of Operations and Supply chain to join our team to manage critical demand planning, ERP & supply chain functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic alignment between account management, sales, finance, machine vendors, external contract manufacturers, host facilities the rest of the exec team & customer contact as needed.

The rest of the executive team will look to your recommendation to appropriately manage Capex governance on manufacturing expansion linked to customer demand.

• Own the end-to-end ERP architecture & management of how we go from receiving and accepting a PO through ERP entry, order acknowledgement, manufacturing scheduling, build, shipment invoicing, revenue recognition and any additional required implementations with our customers supplier portals.
• This role will also require that you assess if our current ERP system (Odoo) is suitable or if we need to migrate to a new platform.
• RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) management across the company
• Factoring in both customer demand and our capacity.
• Lead and manage all aspects of the internal supply chain team including personnel & establish a logistics team and covering all product packaging responsibilities.
• Manage inventory management and closely coordinate with the CFO function on working capital & financing considerations.
• Manage our critical vendor relationships while ensuring dual sourcing and business continuity as well as site/host facility selection while managing general company procurement.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant trade compliance as well as customer specific requirements.
• Collaborates closely with the VP of Manufacturing through the planning process to ensure the efficient running of the manufacturing footprint.

Requirements

• 10-15+ years including at least 5 years in a leadership position in manufacturing operations/demand planning & supply chain.
• Experience working in hardware/semiconductor/electronics or precision-manufacturing background.
• Experience working within the fast paced and highly demanding data centre supply chain is a major plus.
• Willingness to travel (up to 20%)
• Onsite in St-Sulpice, Switzerland
• Fluent English speaker, other languages are a plus

This Will Be a Great Fit If...

• You thrive in a fast paced startup environment with demanding launch schedules and are able to keep your cool under pressure.
• You are extremely well organized and an expert planner in an environment with a lot of frequently changing variables.
• Are willing to be flexible to accommodate speaking with our partners across multiple time zones in N America, Europe and Asia.
• You want to build a supply chain organisation from the ground up, not inherit a fully formed one.

This Won’t Be the Right Role if You...

• Prefer a job where there is a steady state
• Prefer working in slower paced industries with more fixed variables
• Are not highly detail/process orientated
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