Senior Supply Manager

Quantumscape

294d • $102,700 - $156,700

About The Position

QuantumScape is on a mission to transform energy storage with solid-state lithium-metal battery technology. The company's next-generation batteries are designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging and enhanced safety to support the transition away from legacy energy sources toward a lower carbon future. The Supply Chain team is responsible for owning key supplier relationships and working cross-functionally with internal customers to ensure supply to the operation meets QS needs in timeline, quality, quantity, and price. Your mission: To assure supply to QS operations, through creating, building, and fostering strong partnerships with internal customers and external material suppliers and contract manufacturing partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field, with exposure to manufacturing environments, with at least 4 years of experience
• Solid track record for managing multiple, competing priorities, and working across cross-functional teams
• Organized and detail oriented
• High EQ and outstanding communicator and listener, with a focus on the customer
• Strong Excel skills
• Strong intuition and problem-solving skills
• Self-starter and willing to step outside of comfort zone

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with battery materials and knowledge of battery suppliers and market
• Experience acting as the interface between technical internal customers and external suppliers
• Experience understanding technical part drawings

Responsibilities

• Find suppliers who are capable of producing the materials that meet our needs, and coordinate between QS internal technical teams and the supplier until the supplier is able to meet QS specifications
• Identify candidate suppliers and introduce them to technical teams
• Identify, consolidate, and communicate requirements
• Coordinate iteration and communication to align QS requirements with supplier capability
• Drive spec definition and qualification plan and timeline
• Contribute to or create schedules and Gantts
• Ensure inventory of qualified supply to meet QS demand
• Establish and execute inventory policy
• Generate and communicate demand forecasts
• Build and foster internal customer relationships
• Determine material requirements
• Align and drive consensus across internal teams
• Consolidate development and production demand plans
• Set material sourcing strategy
• Provide budget guidance to Finance teams
• Own and manage supplier relationships
• Provide business context to technical updates
• Provide forecasts for near-term orders and long-term scale-up planning
• Host and coordinate onsite meetings
• Advocate for QS's interests - e.g. quality issues, changes in direction/priorities
• Negotiate pricing and supply agreements
• Set objectives and priorities with suppliers
• Own supply strategy for your assigned categories or items
• Own supplier selection and development
• Determine partnership/engagement model
• Understand the supply chain
• Create and maintain cost models

Benefits

• Salary range for this role has a range of $102,700 to $156,700
• Annual bonus
• Generous RSU/Equity package
• Employee paid health care
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Other exciting perks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree