About the Role
Serve as the financial and analytical backbone of our product cost and sourcing strategy, driving BOM transparency, cost optimization, and supply chain decision-making across our energy storage business.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain detailed bill of materials (BOM) cost models across all energy storage products, ensuring accuracy, version control, and visibility.
- Develop and manage should-cost models to benchmark component and subassembly pricing.
- Identify, quantify, and drive cost reduction initiatives in partnership with engineering, procurement, and operations.
- Analyze supplier cost structures, trade terms, and logistics economics to inform sourcing strategy and mitigate supply risk.
- Build financial and operational frameworks that connect procurement decisions, supplier performance, and manufacturing trade-offs to margin and unit economics outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally to inform pricing, sourcing, second-sourcing, and supply chain strategy with rigorous cost and operational analysis.
Requirements
- Strong supply chain, manufacturing, or operational finance backgrounds.
- 5+ years of experience as a Global Supply Manager (GSM), Commodity Manager, or Sourcing Manager, or Supply Chain Program Manager OR 5+ years managing finance for a manufacturing operation, plant, or production environment.
- Strong foundation in BOM cost modeling, should-cost analysis, sourcing strategy, or manufacturing economics.
- Deep familiarity with supply chain cost drivers, supplier pricing dynamics, and operational trade-offs.
- Exceptional Excel and modeling skills, with the ability to build bottoms-up cost analyses tied to real-world operations.
- Ability to translate complex supply chain and technical inputs into clear financial insights for cross-functional and executive stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills and comfort working across engineering, procurement, operations, and leadership teams.
- Self-starter mentality with the ability to structure ambiguous, operationally complex problems in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience in energy storage, battery systems, or other manufacturing-heavy, hardware businesses.
- A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place.
Skills
- BOM cost modeling
- Should-cost analysis
- Sourcing strategy
- Manufacturing economics
- Supply chain cost drivers
- Supplier pricing dynamics
- Operational trade-offs
- Excel
- Financial modeling
- Cost analysis
- Communication skills
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $155,000—$202,000 USD
About the Company
- Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition.
- Founded in 2017, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.
