Supply Chain & Logistics Manager

The Role

We’re looking for a Supply Chain & Logistics Manager to join our team in Brooklyn, NY.

In this role, you’ll own purchasing, inventory planning, supplier coordination, and fulfillment logistics for Caladan products and parts. You’ll manage day-to-day supply chain workflows in our ERP system Katana, work with the commercial team to plan around customer demand, and partner closely with engineering to ensure purchasing and inventory stay aligned with approved parts, BOMs, revisions, and quality requirements.

This is a hands-on role. In addition to supply chain ownership, you’ll also support warehouse operations and customer fulfillment directly, including packing, shipping, labeling, and coordinating domestic and international deliveries.

What You’ll Do

• Own purchasing and supply planning for the parts, components, and materials required to build and deliver Caladan products.
• Manage inventory, purchasing, and part tracking workflows in Katana.
• Work with sales and leadership to translate forecasted demand into purchasing and stocking plans.
• Manage suppliers on orders, lead times, shortages, delivery schedules, and incoming materials.
• Partner closely with engineering and technical teams to ensure purchasing and inventory are aligned with approved parts, BOMs, revisions, and technical requirements.
• Maintain inventory accuracy across raw materials, subassemblies, finished goods, and consumables, and support incoming material checks and operational quality processes.
• Receive and process customer orders for hardware, accessories, and consumables after deal close, and coordinate internal handoff into fulfillment.
• Pull, pack, label, and prepare outgoing shipments from our Brooklyn facility.
• Manage domestic and international shipments, including labels, documentation, customs paperwork, tracking, and delivery coordination.
• Troubleshoot shipping delays, customs issues, damaged deliveries, missing items, and other fulfillment-related problems, while keeping internal teams and customers informed.
• Coordinate delivery timing with sales and field application scientists to support customer installs and training.
• Improve warehouse organization, barcode systems, packaging, inventory controls, and fulfillment workflows, while maintaining accurate records across internal systems.

What You’ll Bring

• 4 years of experience in supply chain, purchasing, materials planning, inventory operations, logistics, or a related role.
• Direct experience managing part-level purchasing, supplier coordination, and inventory planning in a hardware or physical product environment.
• Experience working in an ERP or inventory system such as Katana, NetSuite, Odoo, or similar.
• Familiarity with BOM management, revision control, and approved vendor / approved part workflows.
• Strong understanding of how to translate demand forecasts into purchasing and stocking decisions.
• Experience coordinating with suppliers, contract manufacturers, or factories on orders, lead times, shortages, and delivery timing.
• Strong organizational skills and close attention to detail.
• Comfort working cross-functionally with commercial and technical stakeholders.
• Willingness to be hands-on with warehouse, packing, shipping, and fulfillment work when needed.
• Experience managing domestic and international shipping processes and documentation.
• A process-oriented mindset and a strong sense of ownership.

Nice to Have

• Experience with barcode systems, warehouse setup, or inventory control process design.
• Experience supporting complex hardware, laboratory equipment, biotech, or manufacturing-related products.
• Experience with incoming inspection or operational quality processes.
• Startup experience.
• Experience improving packaging design, kitting, labeling, or warehouse workflows.

Why Join Us?

• Help build the foundation of Caladan’s supply chain and logistics function.
• Work closely with commercial and technical teams on a highly visible part of the business.
• Shape the systems that ensure we can scale reliably as customer demand grows.
• Competitive salary ($95k–$125k) plus benefits (medical, vision, dental).

About Caladan Bio

Caladan Bio is building the next generation of biomanufacturing technology. Backed by Twelve Below, Lerer Hippeau, Collaborative Fund, and Wireframe VC, our mission is to enable industrial biology and biopharma companies to scale up bio-based products by arming them with high-throughput bioreactors, designed to increase the amount of benchtop experiments they can run, getting their products to market faster.