About the role
What to Expect Heron Power is a startup company building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to debottleneck the growth of electricity generation and consumption with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything. Our first goal is to build better converters (inverters & rectifiers) to connect large-scale renewables, storage, and loads to the grid. Heron Power’s leadership team is made up of seasoned veterans who have designed and shipped gigawatts of power conversion products over the past decade. We understand that no one individual knows everything. We will all learn a lot together and from each other. We strive to build a collaborative, enriching environment conducive to personal, technical, and career growth. You can expect to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment, driven by first principles engineering, solving difficult problems. Job Overview As a Supply Chain Manager , you’ll lead strategic sourcing for the critical components and assemblies that power Heron Link. In this pivotal role, you’ll partner closely with the Head of Supply Chain and leaders across Finance, Design Engineering, NPI and Manufacturing to build a resilient supply base. You will ensure the commercial success of Heron’s supply chain, overseeing product cost and supplier performance. How You Will Contribute Define and own the category strategies for key components and assemblies. Achieve or exceed cost targets through data-driven should-cost modeling, market and commodity analysis, and disciplined negotiations. Lead RFx processes and negotiate commercial agreements, including piece pricing, tooling/NRE, and key contractual terms. Manage business risk through scenario assessment of capacity, geopolitics, logistics, and supplier technology / commercial roadmaps. Actively partner with the engineering team to identify/mitigate supply and demand challenges Drive supplier readiness across prototype, pilot, and mass production builds to ensure smooth scale-up and launch execution. Develop and execute the logistics and warehousing strategy associated with and in partnership with factory operations Escalate key supply, cost, and/or quality issues with partner teams and collaboratively develop corrective action plans What You Will Bring We’re open to early to mid-career candidates with or without leadership experience. Scope and