Supply Chain and Cost Manager

Reports to: Director of Manufacturing Operations & Quality

Department: Operations

Location: Onsite in Littleton, CO with international travel to contract manufacturing partners as needed

 

About Emporia Energy

Emporia is a leading technology company revolutionizing home energy by providing affordable, integrated solutions that empower homeowners to optimize energy usage to reduce costs and carbon footprint. Emporia’s Home Energy Management Platform is a powerful software system that connects their Vue Home Energy Monitor, Level 2 EV Charger, Smart Plugs, Home Battery, and third-party thermostats and appliances. By automating energy use through real-time monitoring and scheduling, the platform optimizes consumption, reduces costs, and simplifies home energy management—all within one intuitive app.  With over 400,000 U.S. homes running Emporia’s energy management and EV charging hardware, we are now launching a national Third-Party Owned (TPO) home battery Virtual Power Plant — placing industrial-rated home batteries in residential homes to deliver power redundancy, utility cost savings, and grid peak demand services. By reducing energy waste and saving customers money, we’re helping create a healthier planet and a brighter future. For more information, visit emporiaenergy.com. 

Mission, Vision and Values

Emporia was founded in 2018 with a clear purpose to revolutionize home energy, generate tangible customer savings, and accelerate the transition to a lower carbon future. We are striving to become the world's leading home energy management platform and build the largest virtual power plant.

• Customers First: We deliver exceptional service with empathy and responsiveness, building lasting trust in every interaction.
• Own the Outcome: We think like owners, taking responsibility for results and holding ourselves and each other accountable.
• Win Together: We succeed together through honesty, humility and humanity.
• Grit Gets it Done: We work hard, stay passionate, and persevere through challenges.
• Better Every Day: We challenge the status quo, take smart risks and aim to improve 1% every day.

Role Overview

Emporia Energy is seeking a strategic and results-driven Supply Chain and Cost Management. This role focuses on optimizing our manufacturing partnerships and driving aggressive cost-down initiatives across our global supply chain, with deep ties to the consumer electronics manufacturing ecosystem. The candidate serves as the primary commercial and operational link between Emporia and our Contract Manufacturing (CM) partners, ensuring cost competitiveness and supply resilience.

Core Responsibilities & Coordination

Cost Management & Strategic Sourcing

• Drive the “Cost Down” roadmap for core products, identifying savings in materials, labor, and process yield.
• Run Quarterly Cost Reviews (QCR) with CM partners to track commodity indices and intercept cost creep early.
• Manage the competitive reality of dual-sourcing to influence volume allocation and drive pricing leverage.
• Initiate value engineering exercises with engineering teams to unlock meaningful cost reductions in the pipeline.
• Establish incentive structures for shared cost savings between Emporia and manufacturing partners.
• Consolidate CM quote comparisons into interactive dashboards to strengthen negotiating positions.
• Monitor global trade factors, such as tariff re-evaluations, and their impact on COGS and sourcing strategy.

Supply Chain Operations

• Establish direct sourcing relationships with vendors to provide to our CM partners
• Oversee supplier base ownership, ensuring operational depth in material planning and NPI handoffs.
• Align build plans with 12-month rolling forecasts to optimize inventory held by suppliers on behalf of Emporia with the Operations team.

Cross-Functional & General

• Ad hoc analysis and other miscellaneous tasks as assigned.
• Identify and drive business process improvements and coordinate with other teams to implement.
• Lead the design and development of a custom, in-house ERP platform rather than purchasing off-the-shelf software; leverage an AI-native working style to accelerate requirements drafting, system architecture, and technical documentation for this custom build.
• Emporia is a startup — this role requires wearing many hats, and this description does not capture every assignment.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering or equivalent education / work experience.
• In-depth knowledge of electronics and mechanical supply chain management & components
• Proven track record of cost-down execution, strategic sourcing, and managing complex vendor relationships in a high-growth, consumer electronics or hardware manufacturing environment.
• Experience working with overseas ODM/CM contract manufacturers and suppliers at scale; experience with partners in India is a plus.
• Strong cross-functional relationship-building skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Ability to travel internationally to contract manufacturing partners and suppliers, up to approximately 20% of the time.
• AI-native working style: comfortable using AI tools to accelerate product research, ingest and synthesize data across multiple platforms and systems, and draft requirements and documentation.

What We Offer

💰 Compensation: The expected base salary range is $105,000 - $135,000, plus stock options. The offered salary will depend on numerous factors, including but not limited to work experience, skills, and internal equity considerations. The base salary does not include benefits or other incentives.

🏥 Benefits: medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), employee stock option program, paid holidays plus unlimited PTO, discounts on Emporia products and partner offerings.

📈 Career Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company at the forefront of home energy innovation.

Emporia Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, service in the military, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We will make reasonable accommodations for any qualified applicant with a disability, provided that the individual is otherwise qualified to safely perform the essential functions of the job with or without accommodation and that the accommodation would not impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Please let us know if you believe you require reasonable accommodation, or if you would like assistance to complete an application or to participate in an interview at the company.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

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