Procurement Lead

Job description

Parallel Systems is pioneering autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles designed to transform freight transportation by shifting portions of the $900 billion U.S. trucking industry onto rail. Our innovative technology offers cleaner, safer, and more efficient logistics solutions. Join our dynamic team and help shape a smarter, greener future for global freight. Procurement Lead Parallel Systems is seeking a highly driven, tenacious procurement lead to own procurement across the materials, components, and services required to build and operate our autonomous rail vehicles. This person will be the connective tissue between engineering, operations, finance, and suppliers, making sure the right parts and services show up on time, at the right cost, with the right documentation. This is not a passive purchasing role. We need someone who can push, escalate, negotiate, solve problems before they build delays, and bring order to a fast-moving hardware environment. The right person is detail-oriented, organized, and relentless about follow-through. They know how to manage a mix of off-the-shelf, custom, prototype, and production procurement, and they take real ownership over supplier perfo...