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

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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

supply chain strategiesspend analysisbenchmarkingcost analysismarket analysissupplier selectioncontractingcontracting for long lead time itemsvalue engineeringtechnology selection

Soft Skills

strong communication skillsorganizational skillsanalytical skillsability to manage multiple tasksability to earn trustrelationship managementprocess improvementadaptabilityinitiativeproblem-solving

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Business AdministrationBachelor's degree in Supply Chain ManagementBachelor's degree in Engineering