Senior Manager, Global Supply Chain CapEx

About Redwood Materials

Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling—
keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017,
we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.

The Senior Manager, Global Supply Chain – Capital Equipment is a critical leadership role responsible for the end-to-end procurement,logistics, and supplier management of capital equipment supporting Redwood Materials' rapidly expanding manufacturing operations. This role owns the global sourcing strategy for equipment, partnering closely with Engineering, Finance, and Operations to deliver capital projects on time, on budget, andto specification.

The ideal candidate brings deep experience in capital equipment procurement, a strong command of global supplier landscapes, and the ability tooperatewith urgency and precision in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

• Lead global sourcing strategy for capital equipment across all Redwood facilities
• Manage the full procurement lifecycle: requirements definition, RFQ/RFP development, supplier evaluation, negotiation, contract execution, and purchase order management.
• Develop andmaintaina competitive, qualified supplier base capable of supporting Redwood's aggressive capacity expansion roadmap.
• Drive total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions through supplier negotiations, design-for-cost initiatives, and strategic sourcing levers.
• Build and leadteamthatworksclosely with Engineering, Finance, and Project Management on equipment specifications, lead times, and acceptance criteria.
• Leading andparticipatingin research and development to meet strategic objectives
• Lead design concept/development efforts, working directly with engineers to vet/validate multiple different proposed solutions.
• Define engineering workflows and plans for the team.
• Finalize design scope frominitialconcepts and budgets, define initial assumptions.
• Partner with the project management team toidentifyand document all project design milestones and deliverables.
• Continuouslymonitorand measure all project design processes and activities toidentifyand communicate potential issues, risks, and problems andprovidecorrective action options to drive to resolution.
• Collaborates with internal teams to develop and implement strategies, tactical and operational plans for the procurement of consumables and specialty materialsrequiredfor all applications and product development
• Reviews and analyzes activities, costs, operations, and forecast data todeterminethe company’s progress toward stated goals of the project team, including business, financial, and schedule goals and objectives
• Coordinates activities with contractors, suppliers and vendors including contract management and negotiations, RFP management and negotiations, change order management, schedule adherence, developing bidder’s lists, bid leveling, create and manage Purchase Requests and Purchase Orders
• Makes and/or executes decisions on project purchases
• Overseasand coordinates development activities between suppliers and development teams to ensure overall sourcing and procurement is aligned with corporate directives
• Travel asrequiredat company expense
• Work with the Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance teams toidentifyopportunities for cost reductions and avoidance
• Create and implement targeted category strategies supported by robust analysis and research
• Develop and deploy spend management policies, processes, and best practices;monitor and manage internal…