About the role
About Base
Base is America’s next-generation power company. We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system. We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.
About the Role
Base is hiring a Global Supply Manager to own sourcing and supplier relationships for plastics, molded components, and resin parts. These are the injection-molded parts, LSR-overmolded seals, thermal materials, and adhesives that protect, insulate, and seal every Base battery and inverter. You'll run sourcing from RFQ to award, negotiate the contracts, and make sure suppliers can keep up as we scale production. You'll work closely with engineering, manufacturing, and logistics on new and existing products.
What You'll Do
- Run RFQs end to end: scope requirements, evaluate bids, and drive supplier selection through award.
- Build should-cost models to benchmark pricing, find cost-downs, and back up negotiations with data.
- Negotiate piece price, tooling, payment terms, and master agreements, with contracts in place before work starts.
- Own key supplier relationships: track performance, handle escalations, and build enough trust to move fast.
- Set commodity strategy across a global supply base, balancing cost, supply continuity, and risk.
- Get suppliers ready for production ramp and sustained manufacturing, covering capacity, lead times, and end-of-life.
- Present clear recommendations on awards, cost, and risk to engineering and executive leadership.
What You'll Bring
- 3+ years of strategic sourcing or procurement in hardware manufacturing.
- Track record negotiating contracts and managing suppliers through escalations, including at the executive level.
- Strong cost modeling and Excel skills.
- Clear, direct written and verbal communication.
- Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, about 25% of the time.
Preferred Skills
- Sourcing experience with injection-molded plastics, LSR, thermal materials like mica and aerogel, or specialty resins and adhesives.
- Fluency in tooling economics and mold design constraints, plus a working knowledge of injection molding, compression forming, and LSR overmolding.
- Should-cost modeling for plastic parts, covering material, cycle time, tonnage, cavitation, secondary operations, and tooling amortization.
- Experience negotiating tooling ownership and IP terms, and tracking resin price indexes.
- Experience with MRP or ERP systems.
About the Team
Our supply chain team sources components, runs manufacturing operations, and builds the supplier partnerships we need to make the lowest-cost, highest-quality home batteries at scale. Homeowners across the country rely on Base for whole-home backup and lower electricity bills. Our network of home batteries also helps keep the grid stable as demand climbs from AI, electrification, and extreme weather. We build in-house and expand at a speed and cost incumbents can't match, and this team makes that possible.
Please note: Base is a startup, which means priorities shift and evolve quickly. Your role may expand or change based on the needs of the business at any given time, so the responsibilities listed may not be exhaustive.
Our Values
- First Principles Thinking: Question assumptions. Principles > rules.
- Operate at Base Pace: Focus on what matters, act quickly, and learn by doing.
- Give & Get Feedback: Be direct, be humble, and maintain a growth mindset.
- Everyone’s an Owner: Follow through on commitments and own results.
- Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: Drive clarity and make calls with imperfect information.
- Committed to the Mission: Rebuilding the grid is a big challenge. We work hard because we care deeply about the impact we’re creating. We work in-person. It’s not a 9-to-5. We are all-in.
- Fun & Optimism Coexist with Grit: Collaboration and celebration coincide with the intensity of building real things.