EV-Battery Inbound SCM Localisation Leader — Cell Manufacturing

The mandate

The localisation executive exited after pilot lots revealed moisture, traceability and lead-time assumptions that the sourcing plan had treated as closed. The manufacturer manages its own inbound design, inventory and material release as a 1PL cargo owner, while contracted carriers execute movements; no executive now joins supplier qualification to plant continuity.

The leader must start within four weeks for a fixed twenty-four months, spending four days in Shanghai and one in supplier locations, with quarterly Seoul governance. Permanent succession starts in month eighteen with eight weeks of overlap. There will be no extension.

Handover requires regionally qualified sources for agreed cathode, anode and electrolyte categories, ninety days of stable inbound adherence, traceability from batch to line, contingency routes proven by drill and the successor's completion of one S&OP and supplier-allocation cycle.

The interim may sequence qualifications, allocate approved volumes, quarantine suspect flows and change logistics providers within contracted ceilings. New supplier awards above CNY 120 million, chemistry changes, plant-capacity shifts and permanent appointments need committee approval; product release remains with quality.

Cell design, outbound finished-goods distribution and commodity hedging are excluded. The seat owns inbound resilience and localisation execution, not procurement's price mandate or R&D formulation.

Why this seat is open

Pilot failure disproved the previous localisation timetable and precipitated an executive departure. Procurement, quality and plant teams now optimise different gates. Temporary authority is needed to join technical qualification, logistics reality and continuity before permanent succession.

What you will own

• Rebuild category localisation waves around chemistry, qualification evidence, capacity, lead time and single-point exposure.
• Decide inbound allocation among qualified sources using yield, consistency, inventory and disruption risk.
• Establish batch lineage across supplier, carrier, warehouse and production-consumption records.
• Design moisture, temperature, dangerous-goods and contamination controls with unambiguous quarantine triggers.
• Prove alternate ports, routes and providers through physical drills rather than desktop assurance.
• Chair weekly material-risk decisions linking S&OP changes to cash, inventory and line continuity.
• Transfer supplier gates, allocations, route playbooks and talent decisions through successor-led cycles.

Candidate qualifications

• Led battery-material or comparable high-specification inbound localisation for a large manufacturing site.
• Can evidence supplier qualification tied to production yield, not commercial award alone.
• Directed a cargo-owner 1PL model while governing independent carriers and warehouses.
• Managed dangerous-goods, contamination and batch-traceability controls across inbound nodes.
• Recovered a localisation plan after pilot material or logistics assumptions failed.
• Completed executive handover with stable S&OP and supplier-allocation governance.

Non-negotiables

• Available within four weeks for the Shanghai and supplier-field cadence.
• No undisclosed interest in material suppliers, carriers or testing laboratories.
• Will accept the fixed twenty-four-month end date without conversion.
• Has director or CXO-1 authority across supply, quality and plant trade-offs.

1. 49 words maximum. State your earliest start and one battery-material qualification failure you personally recovered.
2. 49 words maximum. Which evidence proves a local source is production-ready rather than merely approved?
3. 49 words maximum. Describe an alternate inbound route you physically tested before disruption.