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Senior Materials Manager, Energy Storage
Redwood Materials
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 112,250-151,750 / year
Posted on Sep 25, 2025
About Redwood Materials
Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2019, we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.
Senior Materials Manager, Energy Storage
Essential Duties:
Redwood Materials is currently searching for a Senior Materials Manager to join as an early member of Supply chain team.
In this role you will manage supplier relationships and raw material planning to ensure supply continuity and cost efficiency; mitigate risks, maintain inventory accuracy, and handle ERP functions. Support strategic objectives through procurement, documentation, issue escalation, and development of analytical tools for supply chain optimization
Responsibilities will include:
- Interface with suppliers to ensure flawless execution at the tactical level while supporting strategic-level corporate objectives
- Identify supply risks and mitigate them
- Interface with suppliers to request quotations and create purchase orders to ensure continuity of raw material supply and minimizing cost
- Participate and plan short- and long-range raw material planning
- Document information relating to receipt, storage, and distribution of materials
- Escalates key product and material issues to management
- Create analytical tools and models to identify, quantify and minimize risks in supply chain
- Ensure inventory accuracy and manage inventory controls
- Perform ERP functions relating to material tracking, BOM costing and production.
Desired Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, or equivalent relevant experience
- Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in a supply chain role
- Successfully performed purchasing in a manufacturing environment with supplier interactions
- Solid written and oral communication skills
- Ability to communicate accomplishments, obstacles, issues and status clearly and concisely to project team members and management
- Organized, flexible and easily adaptable to changing conditions
- ERP system experience
- Preferred capability: Fluency in Mandarin
Physical Requirements:
- Wear proper PPE when necessary
Working Conditions:
- Environment: office, machine shop, outdoor test sites
- Travel required as needed
The position is full-time and located in San Francisco, CA. Compensation will be commensurate with experience
In accordance with California pay transparency laws, the salary range for this position is listed below. Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.
California Pay Range:
$112,250—$151,750 USD
The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
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