Staff Supplier Integration Manager

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About Commonwealth Fusion Systems: Commonwealth Fusion Systems is on a mission to deliver the urgent transition to fusion energy. Combining decades of research, top talent, and new technologies,

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About Commonwealth Fusion Systems:

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is on a mission to deliver the urgent transition to fusion energy.

Combining decades of research, top talent, and new technologies, we’re designing and building commercially viable fusion power plants. And we're working with policymakers and suppliers to build the energy industry of the future.

We’re in the best position to make it happen. Since 2018, we’ve raised nearly $3 billion in capital, making us the largest and leading private fusion company in the world.

Now we’re looking for more thinkers, doers, builders, and makers to join us. People who’ll bring new perspectives, solve tough problems, and thrive as part of a team.

If that’s you and this role fits, we want to hear from you.

Join the power movement as a Staff Supplier Integration Manager

The role of the Supplier Integration Management team is to integrate suppliers into the early stages of product design, ensure flawless execution of the procurement contracts and optimize schedule, cost, and quality.

The Staff Supplier Integration Manager is an expert in technical sourcing, speaks the language of engineers, and understands how to marshal internal and external resources in support of project objectives. They are accountable for supply chain activities for ARC and other projects/products (strategic sourcing, tactical procurement and supplier management) and are accountable for meeting the internal customers’ needs.

This position is primarily focused on the definition and execution of the supply chain strategy for the molten salt blanket. It requires experience in uncertain, unstructured, low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) environments, while exercising curiosity and creativity to identify and understand new trends and technologies. The selected candidate will be representing CFS at all levels within supplier and other external audiences.

Develop and lead the supply chain strategies for the molten salt blanket, including spend analysis, benchmarking, cost, market analysis, supplier selection and contracting

Monitor suppliers throughout the execution of the contracts

Build and nurture relationships with key supplier leadership

Advise Supply Chain, Open Innovation, Global Affairs, and C-Suite on potential opportunities for strategic partnership, joint ventures, acquisitions, and other creative or sophisticated strategies to drive supply chain readiness and reliability of fusion powerplants

Partner with Legal to develop the legal framework in support of the supply chain strategies

Partner with EHS to ensure safe operations at CFS and key suppliers, especially with regards to hazardous materials

Partner with Supply Chain Engineers to oversee supplier development activities, including capacity expansion projects

Support Investor Relations, Business Development, Corporate Finance, and Engineering teams as needed, and on demand with queries and reports.

Partner with Engineering, R&D and Fusion Economics teams to drive powerplant value engineering, cost reductions, technology selection, and increase TRL of fusion specific hardware

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field

10+ years minimum experience in engineering, supply chain or adjacent positions, working with suppliers or partners on technically complex projects

High finance acumen to be able to understand a company's financial structure and strategize contract incentives

Extensive technical knowledge of contracting for long lead time items based on project milestones

Ability to map out and understand complex interconnected systems

Ability to work effectively both independently and in cross-functional teams

Strong communication skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and projects

Exceptional organizational and analytical skills, and a proven ability to drive complex projects with minimal oversight

Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen our culture of inclusion

Generate work plans, define milestones for own tasks, and help define processes that impact direct work

Contribute to process improvement

Strong organizational abilities to manage many various cases and scenarios

Attention to detail, ensuring comprehensive analysis

Reliable and persistent work ethic, seeing tasks through to completion

Stays determined in the face of uncertainty and setbacks

Ability to identify the right level of detail for a given task and flexibility to adapt to modeling both rough, quick estimates for establishing development priorities and detailed, reliable models for finalizing project specifications

Adaptability to a start-up environment, capability to take initiative, develop own tasks and timelines, and solve broad, ambiguous problems.

Operates with general guidance from management and increasingly takes independent ownership of developing execution approaches to assigned work

Proven writing and communication ability, and consistent quality of work appropriate for preparing material for a broad external audience

Previous experience with chemical products and hazardous materials
Previous experience scaling up operations
Previous experience with Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Venture formation, or strategic partnership framework development

Perform activities such as typing, standing, or sitting for extended periods of time
Willingness to travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call regularly
Willingness to travel up to 25% of time
Work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead (Pb), high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics