About the Role
As a Global Supply Chain Manager, you will lead strategic sourcing for critical components and assemblies for cutting-edge robotic systems. You will collaborate with Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, and Operations to drive cost improvements, scale production, and build a resilient supply base.
Responsibilities
- Define and own category strategies for key components and assemblies with a focus on scaling production.
- Achieve or exceed cost targets through data-driven should-cost modeling, market and commodity analysis, and strategic negotiations.
- Negotiate commercial agreements, including piece price, tooling/NRE, and key contractual terms.
- Manage supply chain risk through assessment of capacity, geopolitics, logistics, and supplier technological capability.
- Partner with the Hardware Engineering team to drive design direction aimed at meeting functionality objectives while reducing landed costs.
- Drive supplier readiness across prototype, pilot, and mass production builds to ensure smooth scale-up and launch execution.
- Develop and execute planning, logistics, and warehousing strategy to optimize costs and minimize supply risk.
- Concisely summarize and escalate key supply, cost, and/or quality issues with partner teams and lead development and implementation of corrective action plans.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in sourcing or procurement for high volume manufacturing.
- Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
- Solid category knowledge across mechanical, electrical (PCB/PCBA), and/or electro-mechanical components and assemblies.
- Strong negotiation and contract management skills.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional work-streams with Engineering, Operations, Finance, and NPI teams to drive alignment and execute sourcing strategies.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, potentially on short notice.
- Extensive supply chain or manufacturing operations experience with one or multiple of the following: electronics components, injection molding, stamping, sheet metal fabrication, casting, CNC machining, printed circuit board fabrication, assembly.
- Prior experience sourcing, evaluating, and onboarding new suppliers in new regions.
- Strong data analysis and visualization skills.
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Education Level
- Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $115,000 - $145,000 a year
- Generous equity
Benefits
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Commuter Benefits
- Referral Bonus
- 401k
- Equity
About the Company
- Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce.
- We’re training robot AGI to power a proprietary generalist supply chain superhumanoid, the first robot in the world capable of performing thousands of tasks across the supply chain.
- We’ve raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue.
- We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world’s best engineers and operators.
- Our mission is to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.
- Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends including Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab), Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), and Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles).
- We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day.
- We want to create something legendary and leave our mark on the world.
- We’re ambitious, we’re gritty, we’re humble and we’re relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals.
Equal Opportunity
- Nimble Robotics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
- We make all employment decisions based solely on merit.
- We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state, federal or local laws.
