Senior Chemical Commodity Manager

Natron Energy seeks a Senior Commodity Manager to carry out procurement activities and other strategic activities. This person will support the company by purchasing goods and services, engaging vendors and suppliers, and implementing procurement systems related to specialty chemical purchasing. This person is a strong collaborator who is able to engage internal and external stakeholders to rapidly address supply and sourcing constraints.
Qualified applications have significant prior experience as a buyer for programs involving specialty chemicals. The person for this position has a positive attitude, collaborates well, and does what it takes to get the job done.

Responsibilities:

• Lead regular and special procurement of goods, materials, components, or services in line with cost, quality and delivery targets
• Maintain a continuous supply of the goods/materials critical to company operations
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and vendors to develop component specifications, compile forecasts for vendors, and assist operations in managing the impact of supply constraints
• Explore market opportunities to reduce costs by identifying, engaging, and negotiating with existing and new vendors and suppliers
• Assess and evaluate suppliers with supplier performance reviews to ensure compliance and manage performance improvement activities
• Source and assess quotations from potential suppliers
• Prepare purchase orders with selected suppliers to meet organizational targets and requirements
• Contact suppliers to resolve price, quality, delivery or invoice issues
• Support product change requests and review and communicate the impact on capacity plans
• Maintain active communication with vendors and stakeholders to rapidly identify and communicate changes in the supply of goods critical to company operations
• Participate in supply/inventory reviews and communicate possible risks, shortfalls, and oversupply to the company’s demand forecast

Experience/Skills:

• 7-10 years of procurement experience in related supply chain role
• Proven supplier management experience, including supplier performance reviews
• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent is strongly preferred
• Strong knowledge and understanding of manufacturing processes, components, and supply chain management
• Fluency in statistical problem-solving techniques as applied to procurement and manufacturing operations
• Experience with NetSuite and the associated system maintenance
• Experience working with contract manufacturers locally and internationally
• Proficiency in MS Office including advanced Excel skills

Logistics:

• This is a regular, full-time position, reporting to the VP of Supply Chain
• Compensation is competitive with other local manufacturing procurement positions

Compensation/Pay Transparency:

• Disclaimer: The actual salary of a successful applicant may vary from posted ranges based on the candidate’s experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, internal equity and alignment with market data, and other legitimate business reasons, including, but not limited to, compliance with applicable immigration law prevailing wages.
• In addition, Natron Energy has a strong benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k Plan with Match, Life Insurance, Parental Leave Benefits, Discretionary Time Off (DTO) and Paid Time Off (PTO) for Exempt and Non-Exempt employees respectively, and 11 paid holidays.
• The salary range for this position is a minimum of $121,500 and a maximum of $164,500. 

About Us: Natron Energy (natron.energy) is the future of energy storage. Natron Energy’s battery products solve operations performance and reliability problems for the world’s biggest electricity customers. Natron Energy’s initial products target markets exceeding $25B including data centers, oil & gas, EV fast charging, and commercial aviation. Natron Energy has additional products in development for >$50B markets including commercial and residential grid storage. Its products are based on sodium-ion cells containing Prussian blue electrodes that deliver unique power, cycle life, and safety: full discharge and recharge in just minutes and up to 50,000 deep discharge cycles from a nonflammable, fault-tolerant system. Natron Energy’s current production is sold out for the next 12 months. The company has signed over $225M/year in master sales agreements and LOIs, and scale-up to mass production is now underway. Natron Energy has raised over $155M in venture capital investment to date, as well as $35M in non-dilutive funding to support its supply chain scale up.  
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