Manager, Commodities Management & Operations
Redwoodmaterials•3h ago
United StatesOnsiteFull-timeManager Level5+ yrs exp
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- About Redwood Materials
- Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse
- recycling — keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the energy transition. Founded in 2017, 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.
- Manager, Commodities Management & Operations
- The Manager, Commodities Management & Operations will lead the day-to-day operational management of Redwood’s battery-material and commodity activities. This role will ensure the accurate, efficient
- commercially aligned execution of material purchases, internal production flows, inventory movements, logistics, sales commitments
- related financial transactions.
- Redwood receives end-of-life batteries and battery-containing products, recovers and refines critical minerals
- transforms those materials into products used in new battery manufacturing. Redwood may also strategically purchase, sell
- manage battery materials and commodities to support customer requirements, optimize material flows
- expand the circular battery supply chain.
- This role serves as the operational connection among Commercial, Trading, Supply Chain, Logistics, Production, Finance, Accounting, Legal, Compliance
- Technology. The Manager will translate commercial agreements and commodity strategies into executable operational plans, ensuring that physical material movements, system transactions, contractual obligations, costs
- financial outcomes remain aligned.
- The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with hands-on operational capability, commercial judgment, analytical rigor
- an understanding of physical commodity or industrial-material flows. This individual should be comfortable building scalable processes in a fast-changing environment and driving issues from commercial agreement through final operational and financial resolution.
- Responsibilities Will Include
- Team Leadership and Management
- Lead, coach, and develop a team responsible for commodities administration, commercial execution, material-flow coordination, transaction management, reporting, and operational support.
- Establish clear responsibilities, priorities, service levels, and performance expectations for the Commodities Management and Operations team.
- Oversee workload allocation and daily execution across purchasing, sales support, logistics coordination, inventory reconciliation, documentation, and financial settlement activities.
- Develop team capability through structured onboarding, cross-training, documented procedures, ongoing coaching, and performance feedback.
- Establish scalable processes, standard operating procedures, controls, and training materials to improve consistency, accuracy, and accountability.
- Foster a culture of ownership, responsiveness, collaboration, commercial awareness, and continuous improvement.
- Commodity and Commercial Execution
- Manage the operational lifecycle of battery-material and commodity transactions, from commercial agreement and order creation through physical movement, inventory recording, invoicing, settlement, and closeout.
- Translate sourcing, sales, recycling, and trading agreements into clear operational requirements for internal teams.
- Coordinate the execution of material purchases, sales, internal transfers, and other commodity movements involving materials produced by Redwood or strategically procured from external partners.
- Ensure commercial terms are accurately reflected in purchase orders, sales orders, contracts, shipment instructions, inventory records, invoices, and internal systems.
- Serve as a central escalation point for operational issues affecting commodity purchases, sales, deliveries, inventory, pricing, documentation, or settlements.
- Support supplier and customer relationships by ensuring timely communication, accurate execution, compliance with agreed terms, and high service levels.
- Coordinate with Commercial and Trading teams to understand customer commitments, supplier obligations, pricing structures, volume expectations, and delivery requirements.
- Help identify operational risks, constraints, and cost drivers that could affect transaction economics or customer and supplier performance.
- Material Flow and Logistics Coordination
- Coordinate with Supply Chain, Logistics, Production, Warehouse, and site operations teams to align commercial commitments with physical material availability and movement.
- Maintain visibility into inbound, outbound, and internally produced commodity flows across Redwood facilities and external locations.
- Support the development and execution of material-allocation plans based on production output, inventory positions, customer requirements, supplier commitments, quality status, and commercial priorities.
- Ensure transportation, storage, handling, packaging, documentation, and delivery requirements are clearly communicated and executed.
- Monitor shipments, delivery schedules, material availability, and operational constraints, proactively escalating risks to stakeholders.
- Partner with Logistics to evaluate transportation costs, routing decisions, service levels, and execution issues that affect commodity economics.
- Coordinate the resolution of delayed shipments, quantity discrepancies, damaged materials, rejected loads, documentation issues, and other exceptions.
- Maintain accurate records and traceability for physical commodity movements across internal and external systems.
- Inventory and Position Management
- Partner with Production, Warehouse, Supply Chain, Commercial, and Finance teams to maintain accurate visibility into commodity inventories and available material positions.
- Monitor inventory balances, committed volumes, incoming material, production forecasts, customer allocations, and other relevant supply-and-demand information.
- Support the reconciliation of physical inventory, system inventory, commercial commitments, and financial records.
- Identify inventory discrepancies, unallocated material, aging positions, fulfillment risks, and other operational exceptions requiring resolution.
- Establish controls and reporting processes that improve material traceability and reduce transactional or inventory errors.
- Participate in physical inventory audits, cycle-count reviews, reconciliation activities, and month-end or quarter-end close processes.
- Provide reliable operational data to support purchasing, sales, production planning, working-capital management, and commodity strategy.
- Pricing, Cost, and Financial Coordination
- Support the operational administration of commodity-pricing mechanisms, including fixed pricing, index-based pricing, provisional pricing, adjustments, fees, logistics costs, and other contractual components.
- Coordinate with Commercial, Trading, Finance, and Accounting to ensure that applicable prices, quantities, units of measure, payment terms, and adjustments are accurately recorded.
- Maintain visibility into purchasing, processing, handling, transportation, storage, and other operating costs associated with material flows.
- Help evaluate transaction economics by consolidating operational costs, commercial terms, material values, and execution results.
- Partner with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable to resolve invoice discrepancies, missing documentation, pricing issues, payment holds, credits, and settlement exceptions.
- Support timely and accurate accruals, invoicing, payment processing, revenue recognition, and financial close activities.
- Establish clear approval controls and escalation paths for pricing, quantity, invoice, and settlement exceptions.
- Provide operational insights that help Commercial and Trading teams improve margins, customer mix, supplier performance, and material-flow decisions.
- Systems, Data, and Reporting
- Maintain accurate, complete, and organized transaction records across ERP, CRM, inventory, logistics, financial, and internal operational systems.
- Ensure data integrity and traceability across purchase orders, sales orders, contracts, shipments, receipts, inventory records, invoices, and settlements.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and analytics covering commodity volumes, inventory positions, commitments, shipment status, service levels, costs, margins, and operational performance.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators related to transaction accuracy, on-time execution, inventory reconciliation, invoice resolution, customer and supplier service, and process efficiency.
- Deliver regular reporting and operational insights to Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, and executive leadership.
- Analyze transaction and material-flow data to identify risks, bottlenecks, cost drivers, process gaps, and improvement opportunities.
- Partner with Technology, Product, and Data teams to define system requirements, improve reporting capabilities, and automate manual processes.
- Support the design and implementation of scalable tools and workflows that accommodate increased transaction volume and business complexity.
- Risk, Compliance, and Process Improvement
- Ensure commodity-management activities comply with contractual requirements, internal controls, company policies, and applicable regulatory standards.
- Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, Finance, Quality, Environmental Health and Safety, and other stakeholders to address transaction-specific risks and requirements.
- Maintain complete and audit-ready documentation supporting purchases, sales, material movements, pricing, invoices, and settlements.
- Identify operational, financial, contractual, inventory, logistics, and counterparty risks and ensure they are appropriately escalated and addressed.
- Develop controls that reduce the risk of incorrect pricing, duplicate payments, missed obligations, inventory losses, or unauthorized transactions.
- Lead root-cause analysis and corrective-action efforts for recurring operational or transactional issues.
- Identify and implement process improvements that increase accuracy, responsiveness, visibility, control, and scalability.
- Contribute to commercial and operational planning by providing data-driven recommendations on material flows, capacity constraints, costs, and execution risk.
- Champion best practices for safety, compliance, responsible sourcing, and operational excellence across commodity programs.
- Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
- Seven or more years of relevant experience in commodity operations, commercial operations, physical trading operations, supply chain, procurement, logistics, materials management, or industrial operations.
- At least two years of experience managing and developing employees.
- Experience supporting the physical purchase, sale, transportation, inventory management, or settlement of commodities, metals, chemicals, battery materials, recycled materials, or other industrial products.
- Experience in batteries, battery materials, critical minerals, metals, mining, recycling, chemicals, or energy-related commodities strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated understanding of the relationship among commercial agreements, physical material flows, logistics, inventory, costs, invoicing, and financial outcomes.
- Experience managing operational execution across multiple transactions, customers, suppliers, locations, or material types.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret operational and commercial data, identify discrepancies, and translate findings into action.
- Experience with commodity pricing, index-based pricing, transaction economics, or margin analysis preferred.
- Working knowledge of inventory reconciliation, purchasing, order management, invoicing, settlement, and financial close processes.
- Hands-on experience with ERP, CRM, inventory, logistics, or commodity-management systems; familiarity with Oracle, HubSpot, or equivalent platforms is a plus.
- Experience developing reports, dashboards, performance metrics, and operational controls.
- Proven ability to build scalable processes and manage complex cross-functional workflows.
- Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to transactional, financial, and material details.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Technology, and external partners.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a bias for action, strong ownership, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment.
- Passion for sustainability, responsible resource management, and advancing the circular economy.
- Physical Requirements
- Ability to perform essential job functions in compliance with ADA, FMLA, and other relevant federal, state, and local regulations, including meeting both qualitative and quantitative productivity standards.
- Ability to maintain regular and punctual attendance in line with ADA, FMLA, and applicable standards.
- Ability to wear personal protective equipment, including safety gloves, helmets, and eyewear, or additional PPE when required.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively on the telephone and through virtual and in-person meetings, including listening and speaking.
- Ability to travel to Redwood facilities, supplier locations, customer sites, warehouses, or logistics partners as business needs require.
- Working Conditions
- Work may be performed in an office setting, manufacturing facility, warehouse, outdoor job site, or other industrial environment.
- Periodic exposure to loud noise, dust, fumes, chemicals, moving equipment, and extreme heat or cold.
- May be required to work evenings, weekends, or extended hours to support time-sensitive material movements, transaction deadlines, or operational issues.
- The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
- The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
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