Neuralink Global Supply Manager at Neuralink owns commercial strategy and supplier performance across diverse commodity categories. The role involves sourcing strategy, contract negotiation, and supplier relationship management.
Responsibilities
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 Neuralink’s long-term supply-base architecture.
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 Neuralink's 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 Neuralink’s 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.
Bachelor's 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 supplier's process documents.
Working familiarity with at least one Quality Management System framework — ISO 13485, 21 CFR Part 820, AS9100, IATF 16949, or ISO 9001 — and how it shapes change control, documentation, and supplier qualification.
Technical & Commercial Literacy
Preferred
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.
