Base brings affordable, reliable energy and whole-home backup to homes across Texas — fixed low rates and battery backup that kicks in automatically. Backed by Lightspeed and a16z.
About the role
Base is hiring a Global Supply Manager to own sourcing and supplier relationships for plastics, molded components, and resin parts. These are the injection-molded parts, LSR-overmolded seals, thermal materials, and adhesives that protect, insulate, and seal every Base battery and inverter. You'll run sourcing from RFQ to award, negotiate the contracts, and make sure suppliers can keep up as we scale production. You'll work closely with engineering, manufacturing, and logistics on new and existing products. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Sourcing experience with injection-molded plastics, LSR, thermal materials like mica and aerogel, or specialty resins and adhesives
- Fluency in tooling economics and mold design constraints, plus a working knowledge of injection molding, compression forming, and LSR overmolding
- Should-cost modeling for plastic parts, covering material, cycle time, tonnage, cavitation, secondary operations, and tooling amortization
- Experience negotiating tooling ownership and IP terms, and tracking resin price indexes
- Experience with MRP or ERP systems
- About the Team
More about this role
Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.
Base is hiring a Global Supply Manager to own sourcing and supplier relationships for plastics, molded components, and resin parts. These are the injection-molded parts, LSR-overmolded seals, thermal materials, and adhesives that protect, insulate, and seal every Base battery and inverter. You'll run sourcing from RFQ to award, negotiate the contracts, and make sure suppliers can keep up as we scale production. You'll work closely with engineering, manufacturing, and logistics on new and existing products.
Run RFQs end to end: scope requirements, evaluate bids, and drive supplier selection through award.
Build should-cost models to benchmark pricing, find cost-downs, and back up negotiations with data.
Negotiate piece price, tooling, payment terms, and master agreements, with contracts in place before work...
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