VP Cell Industrialisation & Strategic Manufacturing Partnerships

Altris is building a European sodium-ion battery platform around proprietary Prussian White cathode technology, no lithium, no cobalt, no nickel, no Chinese feedstock. Spun out of Uppsala University in 2017, the company runs an asset-light industrial model: Altris owns the technology, product definition and customer validation, while material scale-up and cell manufacturing are delivered with strategic industrial partners.

Cathode material is produced at scale with Draslovka in Kolín. Two independent cell-industrialisation routes come live during the first half of 2027, with system validation running through Clarios, our strategic investor and automotive anchor customer. Beyond that footprint, the partner ecosystem that will carry Altris's volume for the next decade is still to be built, in Europe and in Asia.

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01Why this role exists

In an asset-light model, the company's capacity is somebody else's factory. That makes external manufacturing readiness an existential capability rather than a procurement function, and it is currently the least-owned part of the business. This role creates and runs the system that turns Altris technology into qualified, scalable and controllable cell-manufacturing capacity, and holds the line between what we have promised customers and what a partner can actually build.

02The mandate

You create and operate the external cell-industrialisation partner ecosystem. You are accountable for whether Altris technology can be transferred into partner capacity, qualified, and delivered against commercial commitments.

PARTNER STRATEGY AND SELECTION

Map, qualify and build a ranked portfolio of cell-manufacturing partners, including on the ground in Asia, giving the board an honest read on each partner’s capability and risk.

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Lead a documented, repeatable and auditable transfer of Altris reference-cell know-how into partner processes while protecting Altris’s data and IP.

PARTNER OPERATING SYSTEM

Set governance, KPIs and ramp plans for strategic partners, chair each partner’s governance board and sit on the CEO-chaired Executive Industrialisation Steering Group.

INDUSTRIAL READINESS

Independently judge partners’ real capability, yield, quality, cost and capacity before commercial commitments expose Altris, never treating a partner’s own account as evidence.

INDUSTRIAL INPUT INTO DEALS

Define the technical and operational requirements in JDA, licensing, transfer, contract-manufacturing and capacity deals, working with the CCO and CFO so that commercial terms match industrial reality.

03The profile

An industrial operator, not a business-development executive. Technical enough to interrogate a factory and know when an answer is thin. Commercial enough to structure an external industrial relationship that holds up over years. Experienced enough to recognise false readiness before it becomes a missed customer commitment.

Non-negotiables:

• Battery-cell industrialisation, done personally, you have led technology transfer or industrialisation from pilot or reference scale into partner or production operations. Not supervised it; led it.

• External manufacturing relationships, direct experience of JV, licensing, contract-manufacturing or partner-factory relationships, including how they fail and what protects you when they do.

• Cell process, quality and manufacturing credibility, you can hold your own with a partner's process engineers, and they know it within an hour.

• Partner-factory capability assessment, quality governance, ramp discipline and change control, with the judgement to distinguish a fixable gap from a fundamental one.

• Executive presence with industrial counterparts, credible with factory general managers, partner COOs and cell-maker CTOs, and comfortable holding a difficult line with a partner you also need to keep.

If you're a battery cell expert passionate about bridging innovation with industrial execution, and you want to play a key role in bringing next-generation battery technology to market, we want to hear from you.