Title: Vice President, Supply Chain

Onsite: San Mateo, CA

Company Description:

Our diverse team at ZOLA Electric, dispersed across 4 continents and 13+ different nationalities, share a common vision and commitment to solving the Energy Access challenge that afflicts over 3 billion people and hundreds of millions of businesses, hospitals and schools globally. This is one of the world's great problems, impacting our most vulnerable and driving inequality across income, healthcare, education and climate change. As one of us, you are equally passionate about making an impact as you are creating the technologies that will eradicate Energy Inequality.

ZOLA Electric was born in and around the Serengeti in Tanzania, initially installing smart, connected devices (batteries and solar) that powered basic energy needs such as lighting and connectivity for rural communities. Our theory that thousands of networked, connected and controlled devices will form the basic architecture of energy provision in emerging markets holds true today. ZOLA today empowers Energy Service providers to grow, sustain and finance their operations through our ZOLA technology platform, enabling our enterprise customers to deliver reliable and affordable power to their communities, improving the lives of the 3 billion people across the globe that need it the most. Our technology platform is comprised of a hardware layer, control layer and Ai enabled SaaS application layer, ZOLA Intelligence (ZI). Today we are proud to say that our network delivers reliable, affordable and smart power to over 3 million people and commercial facilities across over 10 countries and 4 continents. We have a bold vision and mission, and we are only just beginning.

This may be your dream job if you’re someone who dreams of combining your knowledge and skills to help ZOLA Electric . You need to be passionate about bringing energy technology to the Global South with the unique social, technical, and business challenges that come along with it. You are inspired by the opportunity to unleash human potential, and motivated to help build a truly epic business.

Position:

ZOLA Electric Labs is seeking a Vice President, Supply Chain for our San Francisco location. If you are selected for this role, you will play a critical role in our global mission as an integral member of the Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Founder and CEO.

The VP, Supply Chain will build and lead Zola’s supply chain management and capabilities, including: materials procurement, capital purchase negotiations, sourcing, order fulfillment, New Product Introduction (NPI), quality and supply chain strategy and development. The supply chain team supports global production facilities, as well as planned worldwide expansions.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to the following:

Participate as a member of the Leadership Team in the development of the 3-year Corporate Strategy and identify a collection of strategic initiatives to drive overall corporate objectives
Develop the 3 yr. Supply Chain strategy aligned to the overall company strategy, including development of the product roadmap as a member of the product Steering Committee
Drive cross functional alignment across Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance and GTM teams in the development of the annual SC business plan integrated into the corporate strategy
Deep supply chain experience with battery, inverter, PCBA, high tech manufacturing processes and technologies
Performing supply market and supplier analysis, supply planning, negotiating, contracting, supplier management and performance management (i.e. compliance, use of total cost of ownership models, etc.)
Manage order fulfilment, planning (including S&OP), sourcing, quality engineering, NPI, logistics, inventory management, cost reductions, CM management
Manage global logistics – 3PLs, freight forwarders, sea and land transportation, insurance, risks, etc.
Collaborate with senior executives to establish supply chain, logistics, and production performance metrics and goals, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Keep abreast of new developments in the fields of supply chain and manufacturing to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the function
Identify potential risks in the manufacturing supply chain and develop strategies to mitigate them, such as contingency plans for supply disruptions
Develop and monitor divisional annual budget based on operational and financial targets
Build, tool and manage the supply chain organization across budgeting, recruiting, goal setting (OKRs), coaching/mentoring, performance management.
Design and implement scalable ERP/data systems, tools, and SOPs across the Supply Chain effort to drive visibility, efficiency and cost control.
Oversee the management of documentation to ensure availability and ease of retrieval at all times

Requirements:

10+ years experience in Supply Chain Management, of which 5+ years is in a management/leadership role
Knowledge and experience in implementing ERP or supply chain management systems
Knowledge of procurement methodologies, quality, sourcing, strategies and outsourcing across batteries, inverters, PCBA
Knowledge of global supply chain management, particularly in low cost geographies including Asia
Strong NPI experience a plus, including deep working relationship with PM and Engineering
Knowledge of Lean and Six-sigma practices
MBA/MS in Engineering Management is a plus
Travel is required

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