Supply Chain Manager

About Aalo Atomics

Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we’re rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world’s first fleet of advanced reactors. Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering and Quality to identify, qualify, and onboard suppliers that can scale with us
• Develop and execute make/buy strategies with cross-functional team
• Negotiate pricing, lead times, MOQs, and contracts
• Develop dual-source strategies to reduce risk
• Build strong, long-term supplier partnerships, not just transactional relationships
• Issue and manage purchase orders through delivery
• Negotiate expedites by leveraging supplier relationships
• Facilitate the resolution of supplier quality, delivery, and invoicing issues
• Build lightweight but effective planning processes using high-level forecast to drive purchasing for long lead material
• Key contributor to MRP implementation, reorder point, and safety stock strategies
• Partner with Sales/Operations to implement forecast processes
• Establish clear inventory visibility and reporting
• Partner with Engineering on new product introductions (NPI)
• Work with Quality to support NQA-1 standards and Quality audits
• Partner with Manufacturing to ensure material is in place to support manufacturing plans
• Collaborate with Finance on invoice issues and procure-to-pay strategies
• Implement supply chain processes that support sustainable growth
• Establish supplier KPIs and performance scorecards

Qualifications

• Must be based in the United States
• Must be willing to work on-site at our headquarters in Austin, Texas
• 5–10 years in purchasing, sourcing, or supply chain in a product-based company
• Experience with electrical sourcing and/or instrumentation and control supply chain
• Experience in a high-growth environment, strongly preferred
• Background in manufacturing, hardware, or complex assemblies preferred
• Understanding of what mature systems and operations “look-like”
• No ego amigo. We are one-team with one-focus!
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
• Strong communicator
• Hightly accountable and proactive
• Able to operate strategically and tactically on the same day