Global Supply Manager

About Neuralink:

We are creating devices that enable a bi-directional interface with the brain. These devices allow us to restore movement to the paralyzed restore sight to the blind and revolutionize how humans interact with their digital world.

About the Team

The Supply Chain organization owns the external manufacturing and supplier network behind every component of our products. Global Supply Managers (GSMs) own the commercial relationship with our supplier base from supplier identification and selection through contract negotiation cost management capacity commitments and ongoing business performance. GSMs partner day-to-day with Supplier Industrialization Engineering (SIE) Quality Design Engineering Manufacturing Planning and Finance to make sure Neuralink has the right suppliers on the right terms delivering the right parts on the right schedule.

About the Role

As a Global Supply Manager you will own the commercial strategy and performance of a portfolio of suppliers spanning the full breadth of what goes into the Implant and the Robot. This is explicitly a generalist role: rather than specializing in a single commodity you will move across machined parts molded plastics electromechanical assemblies PCBAs raw materials optics hermetic packaging coatings and biocompatible materials going wherever the business needs the most commercial leverage. You will drive sourcing strategy negotiate contracts and pricing manage supplier performance and be the single point of accountability for the commercial health of your portfolio.

We expect generalists to be biased toward learning new categories rapidly comfortable owning commodities they have not personally sourced before and willing to develop the technical fluency required to negotiate credibly with engineering-led suppliers.

We are hiring across multiple levels. Early-career GSMs will own a focused portfolio under mentorship; senior and staff GSMs will own multi-commodity strategy across both programs lead the most complex negotiations and shape Neuralinks long-term supply-base architecture.

What Youll Do

Sourcing Strategy & Supplier Selection

• Own end-to-end sourcing strategy for a portfolio of categories spanning mechanical electromechanical electronic optical raw-material and biocompatible-material commodities used in the Implant and Robot. Drive technical and commercial requirement definition supplier evaluation scoring and award recommendation.
• Identify qualify and onboard new suppliers; build a global resilient supplier base with deliberate dual-sourcing and geographic-risk strategies.

Contracts & Cost Management

• Negotiate contracts MSAs statements of work NDAs quality agreements and IP terms in partnership with Legal and Finance in a way that protects Neuralinks IP and regulatory position without strangling supplier flexibility.
• Build should-cost models and total-cost-of-ownership analyses; lead year-over-year cost reduction (VAVE resourcing redesign payment-term freight and yield levers). Own pricing negotiation for material and services impacting the manufacturing of Neuralinks products
• Partner with Design and SIE teams on Design for Manufacturability Design for Cost and make/buy decisions early in the development cycle not after the design is frozen.

Supplier Performance & Capacity

• Manage supplier performance against quality delivery cost and responsiveness scorecards; lead quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and drive corrective action when performance slips.
• Own capacity planning and capacity commitments with suppliers; align supplier capacity to Neuralinks clinical-build and commercial-ramp forecasts including upside scenarios.
• Be the commercial single point of accountability when a supply issue threatens a clinical or commercial build from first escalation through closed recovery.

Risk & Continuity Management

• Drive supply-risk management: map sub-tier dependencies monitor geopolitical and financial-health risk and build mitigation plans (inventory buffers dual-source alternate qualifications).
• Manage end-of-life and obsolescence for sourced components; ensure transitions to replacement parts are planned qualified and commercially closed before supply gaps occur.

Required Qualifications

Background & Experience

• Bachelors degree in a technical or business discipline Engineering (Mechanical Electrical Industrial Manufacturing Materials Chemical Biomedical or Aerospace) Supply Chain Management Operations Business Finance or Economics or equivalent practical experience demonstrating the same analytical depth.
• Generalist track record: demonstrated experience moving across at least two distinct commodities or categories learning new technical and commercial domains quickly rather than specializing in a single category throughout your career.
• Sourcing and supplier management experience in one or more of: hardware manufacturing medical devices aerospace automotive consumer electronics semiconductor robotics industrial OEM or military/government/consulting environments that develop the same skill set.

Sourcing & Negotiation

• Hands-on experience running full RFI/RFQ/RFP cycles end-to-end from requirements definition and supplier scorecarding through award contract execution and supplier onboarding.
• Demonstrated commercial negotiation experience across piece-price tooling NRE payment terms lead time MOQ capacity commitments and IP/liability terms; comfortable holding the line with suppliers without burning the relationship.
• Strong should-cost and total-cost-of-ownership analytical skills including the ability to build a cost model from material process labor overhead yield and margin inputs and use it to drive negotiation outcomes.

Supplier Quality & Industrialization

• Working familiarity with the supplier-quality and industrialization toolkit (PPAP APQP FAI PFMEA FMEA control plans SPC MSA 8D/RCCA) enough to operate credibly with SIE and Quality counterparts and to read a suppliers process documents.
• Working familiarity with at least one Quality Management System framework ISOCFR Part 820 AS9100 IATF 16949 or ISO 9001 and how it shapes change control documentation and supplier qualification.

Technical & Commercial Literacy

• Solid technical literacy: able to read engineering drawings basic GD&T BOMs and bills of process; able to translate between engineering and commercial language without losing fidelity in either direction.
• Contract literacy: practical experience reading and redlining MSAs supply agreements quality agreements NDAs and statements of work in partnership with Legal with a clear sense of what matters commercially and what matters legally.
• Familiarity with ERP and procurement systems (e.g. NetSuite SAP Oracle Coupa Ariba Zip) and an understanding of how data flows from BOM to PO to receipt to payment.

Execution & Communication

• Strong project-management skills: able to run a parallel portfolio of sourcing initiatives against aggressive dates sequence dependencies escalate cleanly and communicate status to stakeholders without being chased.
• Strong written and verbal communication: able to run a supplier negotiation walk an engineering team through a make-vs.-buy tradeoff and write a one-page recommendation for leadership all in the same day.
• Strong financial and data fluency: comfortable in Excel/Google Sheets for cost modeling and scenario analysis.
• Comfortable in a hands-on fast-moving ambiguity-tolerant environment where you are expected to own commercial outcomes not just process and to make sound decisions with incomplete information.

Logistics

• Willingness to travel up to 2550% to supplier sites including international travel; valid passport (or ability to obtain one) required.
• Must be able to work on-site in Austin TX or South San Francisco CA.

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced Education

• MBA MS in Supply Chain/Operations or equivalent advanced education.

Regulated & Complex Hardware Experience

• Sourcing experience in a regulated medical-device environment (ISO 13485/21 CFR Part 820) implantable hardware or precision medical instruments.
• Direct experience scaling a complex hardware product from clinical/pre-production builds through commercial volume i.e. the full Design Qualify Scale Sustain End-of-Life lifecycle.
• Prior experience at a high-growth fast-paced hardware company.
• Experience structuring dual-source and second-source qualifications including the commercial choreography of running them in parallel with engineering qualification.
• Experience with supplier-development and supplier-financial-health monitoring (D&B RapidRatings supplier audits) and with managing distressed-supplier situations.

International & Cross-Cultural Experience

• Experience negotiating with suppliers internationally (APAC EU MX) and managing cross-cultural commercial relationships; second-language ability (Mandarin German Japanese Spanish) a plus.

Certifications & Compliance

• Lean/Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher) CPSM CSCP or equivalent.
• Familiarity with U.S. export-control regimes (ITAR EAR) and medical-device-specific regulatory frameworks (FDA QSR EU MDR) as they touch the supply chain.