Sourcing Manager, Energy Infrastructure

FluidStack

Sourcing Manager overseeing global sourcing strategy for batteries, solar PV panels, and inverters. Collaborating with multiple teams to ensure timely procurement aligned with construction schedules.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $220,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERPOracle

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the global sourcing strategy for batteries, solar PV panels, and inverters: from supplier identification and qualification through contract execution and delivery against construction timelines.
Negotiate long-term supply agreements with tier-1 manufacturers across batteries, solar, and power electronics, covering volume pricing, payment terms, warranty provisions, and delivery SLAs.
Build and maintain should-cost models for all three product categories, tracking lithium, silicon, and copper commodity pricing and adjusting sourcing strategy ahead of market moves.
Run supplier business reviews and hold partners accountable to quality standards, financial health thresholds, and geopolitical risk criteria, with dual-source coverage across critical categories.
Partner with Engineering, Project Management, Finance, Legal, and the sustainability team to keep procurement timelines locked to construction schedules and ESG supplier criteria applied consistently.
Coordinate with logistics and customs teams to manage cross-border shipments, lead time buffers, and import compliance across suppliers in China, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You've personally negotiated and closed large-scale supply agreements with tier-1 energy hardware manufacturers, covering batteries, solar PV, or inverters, and you can point to the commercial terms you moved.
You understand BESS, solar PV systems, and power electronics well enough to challenge a supplier's spec, catch a cost model that doesn't add up, and hold your own in a technical negotiation.
You've managed global supply chains with suppliers across China, South Korea, or Southeast Asia, including Incoterms selection, cross-border logistics, and import compliance, without losing schedule.
You've built should-cost models from scratch and used them to drive supplier negotiations, not just to report cost after the fact.
You catch supply risk before it lands on the schedule: financial health flags, capacity constraints, geopolitical exposure, and single-source dependencies are things you track continuously, not reactively.
Bonus: Data center, utility-scale, or large-scale industrial infrastructure sourcing. IEC and UL certification requirements for energy storage and solar equipment. ERP fluency (SAP, Oracle, or equivalent). CIPS, CSCP, or equivalent procurement certification. Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business degree.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
Health, dental, and vision insurance.
Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.

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Hard Skills & Tools

negotiationsupply chain managementshould-cost modelingimport compliancecross-border logisticscontract executionfinancial analysisrisk managementtechnical negotiationcommodity pricing

Soft Skills

accountabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingcommunicationleadershiporganizational skillsattention to detailadaptabilitycritical thinking

Certifications

CIPSCSCPIEC certificationUL certificationprocurement certification