Responsibilities:

• Craft our near term, medium term, and long term supply chain strategy
• Closely partner with engineering and deployment teams to build out a strategic vendor network to support rapid scale-up of our deployments
• Recruit and mentor effective supply chain managers, buyers, and planners
• Develop strategic relationships with suppliers to facilitate cost savings and timely delivery of parts and tools needed for deployment
• Ensure Heirloom is every supplier's priority #1
• Find creative ways to save time and cost such that our vendor network is not a constraint but an accelerant for deployment
• Anticipate future supply chain bottlenecks and build a reliable vendor network to stay within timeline and budgets
• Work with engineering to build bottoms up models for hardware costs at scale, buy vs. build analyses, etc. to guide strategic decisions
• Build a robust supply chain infrastructure - supplier quality/performance processes, inventory systems, seamless buying and receiving processes, etc

Requirements:

• Mission driven mentality with a commitment to reversing climate change
• 15+ years of experience building intricate and large scale hardware supply chains - with many unique custom and off the shelf parts, and a delicate balance of international and domestic, including experience standing up factories or manufacturing lines
• Demonstrated success negotiating complex licensing and supplier agreements
• Ability to assess and analyze the make vs buy decision and provide recommendations
• Experience building and managing excellent supply chain teams, with the passion and willingness to do it again
• Relevant policy and regulatory experience with a proven ability to unlock all current and emerging federal tax incentive programs
• Experience building a supply chain team from zero to one at a startup a plus
• Experience in a construction environment, with exposure to an EPC delivery model
• You’re incredibly well organized, detail-oriented, and a superb project manager, but able to see the big picture as well
• Highly collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, with an ability to “just get it done"