Senior Global Supply Manager - Drive Unit

About the role

The Rivian Supply Chain team is seeking a Senior Global Supply Manager to oversee sourcing strategies, supplier selection, and part management for Rivian's electric vehicles. This role involves supporting the engineering team, negotiating contracts, and managing supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Develop sourcing strategies, analyze supply base, market conditions, and technology roadmaps
• Identify potential suppliers, analyze capabilities, develop sourcing approaches, and roadmaps for stakeholders
• Craft sourcing recommendations and present to executive cross-functional leadership
• Support contractual negotiations with suppliers on NDAs, GT&C, and production supply agreements, and RFQ responses
• Perform detailed comparative analyses of supplier quote submissions and cost breakdowns
• Collaborate with internal Cost Estimating partners to build should cost analysis for negotiating competitive market pricing
• Drive and implement cost reductions on prototype and production vehicles through leveraged negotiations to achieve vehicle cost targets
• Manage strong supplier relationships while maintaining accountability for world-class operations using key performance metrics
• Kickoff purchase orders for production and prototype tooling, engineering, parts, and other supplier-related costs while maintaining budget throughout program life

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, or Engineering
• 5+ years of strategic sourcing, procurement, or purchasing experience
• Negotiation experience specific to automotive electric Drive Unit commodities
• SAP experience
• Proficient interpersonal, presentation, and communications skills
• Meticulous analytical skills and ability to manage large amounts of complex supplier quote data accurately
• Attention to detail to ensure specifications being requested are received
• High level of integrity and desire to own one’s role and contributions to the cross-functional team