Global Supply Manager

As Global Supply Manager, you will build and manage the supplier network that turns Lazarus’ engineering designs into working hardware. You will own sourcing and commercial relationships for critical components, assemblies, and equipment, supporting immediate development builds while establishing the supply base for production.

Early on, this role will require scrappiness and a willingness to roll up your sleeves. You will help stand up end-to-end processes across supplier quality, procurement, accounts payable, receiving, materials management, and business systems. Expect to move between negotiating supplier agreements, tracking down missing parts, helping receive hardware, resolving invoice discrepancies, and establishing how work gets done.

Working closely with engineering, operations, people, test, and finance, you will create practical processes, clear ownership, and reliable information as the company grows. You will help the team make informed decisions about cost, lead time, manufacturability, and what to build internally.

Success means keeping today’s builds moving while putting the foundations in place for repeatable production.

Responsibilities

• Build the supply base. Identify, evaluate, and onboard suppliers for precision machined parts, castings and forgings, fabricated structures, pressure-system components, heat exchangers, electrical hardware, and test equipment.
• Own sourcing and procurement. Develop requests for quotation, resolve technical and commercial questions, compare proposals, recommend suppliers, issue purchase orders, and track commitments through delivery.
• Negotiate commercial agreements. Establish pricing, lead times, payment terms, tooling ownership, capacity commitments, warranties, and change-management terms appropriate to development and production needs.
• Stand up end-to-end processes. Help establish how Lazarus qualifies suppliers, purchases hardware, receives and inspects deliveries, manages materials, and pays suppliers. Define practical workflows, clear handoffs, and appropriate controls with engineering, operations, and finance.
• Execute the day-to-day work. Follow up on deliveries, help receive and organize incoming hardware, reconcile purchasing discrepancies, and ensure parts reach the teams that need them. Work with finance and suppliers to resolve invoice issues and support accurate, timely payment.
• Establish supplier quality practices. Partner with engineering to define supplier qualification, inspection, traceability, and acceptance requirements. Coordinate the resolution of nonconforming material and supplier corrective actions.
• Create materials visibility. Establish methods for identifying, storing, tracking, and issuing parts. Maintain inventory accuracy, track material availability against build requirements, and make shortages visible.
• Help implement the systems. Define purchasing and inventory requirements, establish reliable supplier and part data, and help select, configure, and adopt tools that connect procurement, receiving, materials management, and accounts payable.
• Partner with engineering early. Bring supplier capabilities, manufacturing constraints, material availability, and cost information into design decisions. Support make-versus-buy evaluations and changes that improve manufacturability.
• Protect build and test schedules. Translate program milestones and bills of materials into sourcing priorities. Track long-lead hardware, identify risks, and drive recovery plans before delays affect assembly or testing.
• Prepare suppliers for production. Assess capacity, tooling needs, and readiness to move from one-off prototypes to repeatable production. Establish alternate sources where they reduce meaningful risk.
• Improve cost and supplier performance. Develop cost breakdowns and total-cost comparisons, identify savings, and establish clear expectations for quality, delivery, and responsiveness. Lead supplier reviews and follow corrective actions through resolution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain, business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 3+ years of experience in supply chain, sourcing, or procurement
• Demonstrated experience sourcing complex physical hardware and managing supplier performance.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing processes such as precision machining, metal fabrication, assembly, raw materials, or electromechanical assembly.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and specifications sufficiently to lead effective sourcing discussions with engineers and suppliers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with turbomachinery, power generation, industrial equipment, aerospace, or other technically demanding hardware.
• Sourcing experience involving high-pressure or high-temperature components, specialty alloys, heat exchangers, rotating equipment, or power electronics.
• Experience supporting new product introduction, prototype builds, and the transition into production.
• Supplier qualification experience involving material traceability, inspection documentation, and first-article requirements.
• Experience implementing purchasing or inventory systems, establishing stockroom operations, or improving the purchase-to-payment process.
• Experience building supply chain processes and supplier relationships at an early-stage company.

Compensation & Benefits

• US salary range: $125,000 - $160,000

• Meaningful equity ownership

• Company wide medical, dental, and vision insurance

• 401k plan and Paid Time Off

• Fully stocked kitchen with snacks, coffee, and lunch