Staff Supplier Integration Manager

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 worldwide state of fusion industry, how major and minor players are moving in the market, and have 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 raise 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 gather intelligence on the health of strategic suppliers’ business and inform 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

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field
• 15+ years minimum experience managing supply chains in raw materials, metals, machined components, welding and fabrication, and/or contracted assemblies
• 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
• Must be able to travel 25% - 50% of time and to remote sites
• Experience in sourcing for both R&D (prototypes) and on‑going production
• 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
• Generates work plans, defines milestones for own tasks, and helps define processes that impact direct work. Contributes to process improvement
• Strong organizational abilities to manage many various cases and scenarios
• Ability to map out and understand complex interconnected systems
• Exquisite attention to detail applied across a multitude of systems, ensuring comprehensive analysis and identification of gaps in quality or detail
• 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
• Hard Skills
• supply chain management
• contracting
• cost analysis
• market analysis
• supplier selection
• project management
• financial analysis
• spend analysis
• benchmarking
• technical report writing
• Soft Skills
• strong communication skills
• organizational skills
• analytical skills
• ability to work independently
• cross‑functional teamwork
• relationship building
• attention to detail
• adaptability
• problem‑solving
• trust building

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Industry Keywords
• fusion powerplants
• techno-economic model
• ARC costs
• LCOE
• R&D sourcing
• long lead time items
• supplier business reviews
• strategic suppliers
• public and private partnerships
• sourcing issues
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