Global Supply Manager - Tooling & Shop Supplies (MRO)

About the role

Base is looking for a Global Supply Manager to own strategy and sourcing for the consumables, tooling, and shop supplies that keep our manufacturing floor and field operations running. This category covers MRO (maintenance, repair, and operations), production and hand tooling, PPE, fixturing, and the long tail of shop supplies our operators, technicians, and electricians rely on every day. It's high-SKU, high-frequency work that is directly tied to uptime - when the line stops because a fitting is missing, the cost and time wasted shows immediately. This role will build the category strategy from the ground up, consolidate a fragmented supplier base, and put in place the supply, inventory, and replenishment programs that scale with our manufacturing footprint as Base expands. The category strategy will be built around three plays: consolidate to the same SKUs across stations and sites wherever possible to capture economies of scale; route spend through preferred channels that unlock negotiated pricing - catch-all punchout catalog, VMI for the highest-velocity items, p-cards as the safety valve; and use the data those channels generate to continuously move spend up the curve from ad-hoc to punchout catalog to VMI. This role owns Base's punchout system end-to-end as Base's primary indirect catalog, with adoption across the company as a non-negotiable.