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# Director, Global Supply Chain & Strategic Sourcing at Rondo Energy

- **Company:** Rondo Energy
- **Location:** Madrid, Spain
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rondoenergy/jobs/4707487006

## Job description

Rondo is accelerating industry’s transition to lower-cost, zero-carbon heat and power.

Our Rondo Heat Batteries turn low-cost renewable electricity into continuous, high-temperature heat and power, enabling industrial facilities to replace fossil-fired boilers without costly process changes. The result is lower-cost, zero-carbon industrial energy delivered safely, reliably, and at 98% efficiency.

Rondo is commercially deployed and rapidly scaling, today. Backed by world-class industrial leaders and investors — including Breakthrough Energy, Energy Impact Partners, Rio Tinto, Aramco, SABIC, SCG, TITAN, Microsoft, H&M, and John Doerr — Rondo is building the next generation of industrial energy infrastructure at global scale.

We’re looking for a globally experienced Director of Supply Chain and Strategic Sourcing to help repower industrial heat at scale. You will lead the sourcing strategy and supplier partnerships required to scale the Rondo Heat Battery (RHB) from breakthrough technology to reliable global deployment.

This role will own sourcing strategy for critical equipment and components, establish scalable commercial frameworks, and build a resilient global supply base capable of supporting Rondo’s growth. You will partner closely with Engineering, Project Delivery, Manufacturing, Finance, Legal, and executive leadership to balance cost, quality, capacity, risk, and schedule across Rondo’s projects and product roadmap.

What You Will Do (key responsibilities include, but are not limited to):

- Develop and lead Rondo’s global supply chain and strategic sourcing strategy in alignment with the company’s product, project-delivery, and growth objectives.
- Build and manage a scalable global supplier network for critical equipment, components, and services.
- Translate product, engineering, and project requirements into clear sourcing strategies, supplier-selection criteria, and commercial plans.
- Lead strategic supplier selection, qualification, negotiation, contracting, and performance management.
- Establish senior-level relationships with key suppliers and negotiate favorable terms related to cost, quality, capacity, delivery, warranties, risk allocation, and intellectual property.
- Develop sourcing strategies for long-lead equipment and ensure alignment with engineering, manufacturing, commissioning, and customer-project milestones.
- Oversee procurement strategies for construction contractors, ensuring that equipment purchasing supports project schedules and contractual commitments.
- Establish commercial frameworks for industrial equipment (such as boilers and other heat exchange systems), including equipment purchase agreements, milestone-based payment structures, performance guarantees, and change-order mechanisms.
- Develop supplier capacity, risk-mitigation, and continuity plans to support Rondo’s global deployment pipeline. Recommend a regional based vs global/centralized supplier strategy
- Create and execute cost-reduction roadmaps for critical components, existing products, and next-generation RHB systems.
- Partner with Engineering to incorporate supplier capabilities, manufacturability, cost, and lead-time considerations into product-development decisions.
- Collaborate with Quality and Engineering teams to improve supplier performance and resolve significant technical, quality, schedule, or commercial issues.
- Establish supply chain metrics, operating processes, governance, and reporting to provide leadership with visibility into cost, capacity, risk, and supplier performance. Drive supplier scorecard methodology in the areas of cost, quality, technology and availability
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global supply chain and strategic sourcing capability as the organization scales.

## What You Will Bring

- Approximately 10 or more years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, supply chain, procurement, or supplier management, including leadership of complex global sourcing initiatives. This requires actual hands on experience in identifying suppliers of complex industrial parts. This is not a materials planning role.
- Experience sourcing industrial equipment for capital projects, including factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, commissioning, and milestone-based delivery. Examples of industrial equipment would be boilers and other complex heat exchange equipment.
- Strong knowledge of construction contractors and how capital-equipment procurement integrates with engineering, construction, commissioning, and project-delivery schedules.
- Experience negotiating complex industrial-equipment agreements, including equipment purchase agreements, milestone-based payment terms, warranties, performance guarantees, liquidated damages, and commercial risk allocation.
- Experience managing the procurement of long-lead equipment, such as boilers, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, electrical equipment, or other industrial process systems.
- Demonstrated success developing global supply bases, managing strategic suppliers, and delivering measurable improvements in cost, quality, capacity, and lead time.
- Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, process flow diagrams, equipment datasheets, specifications, and supplier technical submittals.
- Strong commercial judgment and a proven ability to lead complex, high-value negotiations.
- Experience partnering effectively with Engineering, Project Delivery, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and Legal teams.
- Ability to establish strategy while remaining close enough to the work to resolve critical supplier and project issues.
- Strong executive communication, analytical, project-management, and problem-solving skills.
- High integrity and sound judgment in managing sensitive commercial relationships and decisions.
- Ability to prioritize and resolve multiple complex issues in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling environment.
- Proficiency with business productivity and analytical tools, including Google Workspace and Microsoft Excel.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical or Chemical), Supply Chain, Business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Bonus Points

- Experience building or scaling supply chain capabilities within a high-growth industrial, energy, climate-technology, manufacturing, or hardware company.
- Experience sourcing equipment for thermal-energy, power-generation, energy-storage, chemical-processing, or other heavy-industrial applications.
- Experience supporting projects and suppliers across multiple international markets.
- Experience recruiting, managing, and developing strategic sourcing or supply chain teams.
- Advanced degree or relevant professional certification in supply chain, procurement, engineering, or business.

This role is hybrid, and necessitates being on-site at our Alameda HQ ~3 days per week. The estimated annual salary range for this role is $220,000 to $250,000 and it would be eligible for Rondo's excellent benefits listed above plus additional compensation in the form of equity. Please note that some pay bands may have wide ranges of compensation to accommodate candidates' diverse sets of skill levels and experience.

Rondo Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do their best work. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities.

Rondo is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the interview process, please let our recruiting team know.

We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Rondo does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Rondo Energy does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.

## About Rondo Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rondo Energy provides low-cost, zero-emission industrial heat and power by converting intermittent renewable electricity into continuous, high-temperature heat using a refractory brick-based thermal battery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Oakland, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Pete Von Behrens (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Energy Technology / Industrial Decarbonization
- **Target customers**: B2B, large-scale industrial facilities in hard-to-abate sectors (food & beverage, cement, fuel, chemical, textile, steel, mining)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To eliminate CO₂ emissions from the world's most energy-intensive industries by providing the lowest-cost, zero-carbon industrial heat and power.

## Products & Services
- **Rondo Heat Battery (RHB)**: A thermal energy storage system that uses intermittent renewable electricity to heat refractory brick to 1,100–1,500°C. The stored heat is then delivered as continuous superheated air, steam, or electric power at over 98% efficiency. Configurable from 2 MWth to over 100 MWth per unit, with a 40+ year life and unlimited cycles. Serves as a drop-in replacement for fossil-fired boilers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $162.1M (across Series A, Series B, Debt Financing, and Grants) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rondo-energy)
- **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at $47.0M [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rondo-energy)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, European Investment Bank, H&M Group Ventures, Microsoft, Aramco Ventures, SABIC [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/rondoenergy/__a08M2tZ2Rr9f41c1w7isKGjSP8FA4nqNE80sn-BFRek)
- **Growth Signals**: 128 employees (+19.4% YoY), operates in 15 countries, has announced 11 commercial developments including 8 RHB deployments, and has partnerships across 5 industries (food & beverage, cement, fuel, chemical, textile) [rondo.com](https://www.rondo.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proven, low-cost technology**: Uses centuries-proven refractory brick (not exotic materials) for heat storage, making it cheaper and safer than alternatives like hydrogen or molten salt.
- **High efficiency**: 98% energy efficient from electricity to heat/steam output, with no degradation over unlimited cycles and a 40+ year life.
- **Drop-in replacement**: The Rondo Heat Battery is designed as a direct replacement for fossil-fired boilers, requiring minimal changes to existing industrial facilities.
- **No "Green Premium"**: Claims to be the lowest-cost energy storage solution, reducing energy price volatility risk without a cost premium for being green.
- **Safe and sustainable**: Non-pressurized, free of hazardous chemicals, with no risk of fires or explosions, and eliminates NOx, SOx, and particulate matter emissions.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale and deployment**: Rondo is focused on scaling its manufacturing and deploying its heat batteries across multiple industries and geographies, with announced projects in the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
- **Partnerships**: Building a network of world-leading partners (including Microsoft, Aramco, SABIC) to accelerate adoption and integrate into global supply chains.
- **Heat as a Service (HaaS)**: Offering flexible commercial models, including both capital projects and a "Heat as a Service" model to lower the barrier to adoption for industrial customers.
- **Global expansion**: Actively hiring in the US (Alameda, CA), Spain (Madrid), and the Middle East (Dubai, UAE; KSA) to support international project delivery.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Employees work directly on decarbonizing the hardest-to-abate industrial sectors, with a stated goal of reducing global CO₂ emissions by 1% in 10 years and 15% in 15 years.
- **Strong compensation and benefits**: Covers up to 100% of employee healthcare costs on standard plans, offers a 401(k) matching plan (100% on first 3%, then 50% up to 5%), flexible vacation policy, 12 paid holidays, and a company-wide holiday week in December [rondo.com](https://www.rondo.com/careers).
- **Work flexibility**: Flexible vacation policy and hybrid/remote-friendly roles depending on the position.
- **High employee satisfaction**: Rated 4.4/5.0 on LinkedIn (21 reviews), with strong scores for Compensation (4.5), Culture (4.2), and Career (4.4) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rondo-energy).
- **Multidisciplinary engineering culture**: Engineering and R&D teams work with low-cost, durable, proven materials in a novel way, offering hands-on, high-impact work on real-world decarbonization.
- **Global, growing team**: 128 employees across 15 countries, with active hiring in the US, Spain, and the Middle East.

## Sources
1. [rondo.com](https://www.rondo.com/)
2. [rondo.com/careers](https://www.rondo.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rondo-energy)
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/rondoenergy/__a08M2tZ2Rr9f41c1w7isKGjSP8FA4nqNE80sn-BFRek)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/rondoenergy)

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