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About the Role

Base is seeking a Global Supply Manager to manage commercial relationships with contract manufacturers for electromechanical assemblies. This role is responsible for the total delivered cost of finished units, including labor, value-add, configuration control, and ramp readiness across all contract manufacturers.

Responsibilities

• Own the commercial relationship with every contract manufacturer assembling Base products, including master services agreements, statements of work, labor and value-add negotiation, NRE terms, capacity commits, and quality escalations.
• Build and own the should-cost model for every assembly, decomposing station cycle time, direct labor, indirect burden, overhead, and margin to drive year-over-year cost reduction.
• Lead RFx processes for new CM qualification and existing CM re-negotiation.
• Manage configuration control and engineering change management commercially, negotiating ECO cost recovery, tooling amortization, and NRE terms.
• Manage supplier readiness through ramp, including lead times, CM footprint, and capacity.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Manufacturing Technical Program Management to determine in-house versus CM builds and establish the commercial framework.
• Provide clear recommendations on CM awards, contract structures, cost reviews, and supply continuity to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Background sourcing and managing top-level assemblies through contract manufacturers.
• Fluent in labor cost structures, value-add negotiation, and total delivered cost roll-up across a multi-commodity BOM.
• 5+ years in a similar sourcing role.
• Track record of first-principles negotiation with CMs on labor rates, value-add, NRE, and configuration change cost recovery.
• Proficient with Excel and financial modeling.
• Organized with project management instincts.
• Clear, direct communicator, written and verbal.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Willing to travel domestically and internationally, approximately 30% of the time.

Skills

• EMS or CM relationships in EV, energy storage, consumer electronics, or industrial hardware
• Resolving CM escalations at the executive level
• MRP/ERP systems (Odoo, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite)
• Ability to learn quickly and prioritize appropriately
• Excel
• Financial modeling
• Project management
• Communication (written and verbal)

Location

• Domestic
• International

Work Type

• Onsite
• In-person

Experience Level

• 5+ years

About the Company

• Base is America’s next-generation power company, rebuilding the foundation of electricity by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries to transform the grid into a resilient and abundant system.
• We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving complex, interdisciplinary challenges.
• Our supply chain team sources components, manages manufacturing operations, and builds vendor relationships to produce and deliver low-cost, high-quality home battery systems at scale.
• We optimize landed costs through global sourcing, ramp domestic manufacturing, and develop supplier partnerships.
• Homeowners rely on Base for whole-home backup and below-market electricity rates, while our aggregated storage supports grid stability.
• We are manufacturing in-house and expanding nationally at speeds and costs incumbents cannot match.