About BlackMass Energies

BlackMass Energies is building businesses across critical minerals, battery recycling, advanced materials, manufacturing, and global resource supply chains .

We work across the value chain from identifying strategic products and raw materials to building manufacturing partnerships and taking products to global markets.

About the Role

We are looking for a Business Program Manager who can identify commercially attractive opportunities in critical minerals, rare earth metals, advanced materials, and related strategic industries, build relationships with capable manufacturers and suppliers, and take products from idea → sourcing/manufacturing → customer → international export market .

Candidates with relevant experience in critical minerals, rare earth metals, metals and minerals, mining, refining, processing, advanced materials, battery materials, or related industrial sectors are strongly encouraged to apply. Relevant industry experience will be an important consideration for this role.

This is a highly execution-focused position working directly with the founders. You will be expected to identify opportunities, validate demand, develop supply and manufacturing partnerships, find international customers, and convert opportunities into commercial transactions.

You will operate at the intersection of product strategy, market research, manufacturing, critical minerals, partnerships, business development, international trade, and exports .

What You Will OwnProduct and Opportunity Identification

- Identify products and materials with solid demand, supply gaps, margins, strategic importance, and export potential
- Research global markets, industries, competitors, pricing, customer requirements, and supply chains
- Identify opportunities linked to critical minerals, rare earth metals, advanced materials, energy, manufacturing, defence, aerospace, electronics, batteries, and other strategic industries
- Evaluate product economics, technical specifications, certifications, volumes, sourcing feasibility, processing requirements, and scalability
- Assess opportunities across raw materials, processed materials, refined products, alloys, components, and industrial applications
- Build a pipeline of products and business opportunities that BlackMass Energies can manufacture, source, distribute, or export

Manufacturer and Supplier Partnerships
- Identify and map manufacturers, processors, refiners, recyclers, miners, and suppliers across India and international markets
- Evaluate technical capabilities, production capacity, quality systems, certifications, pricing, traceability, compliance, and scalability
- Build relationships with manufacturers, suppliers, processors, and strategic partners
- Negotiate commercial terms, supply agreements, and partnership structures
- Develop contract manufacturing, OEM, private-label, sourcing, and distribution opportunities
- Coordinate samples, technical specifications, testing, quality, production, and delivery




- Build a reliable and scalable supplier and manufacturer network

International Markets and Exports
- Identify international customers and target markets for selected metals, minerals, materials, and products
- Research global demand, import requirements, HS codes, certifications, duties, regulations, sanctions, documentation, and market conditions
- Identify the most attractive international markets for export based on demand, pricing, competition, regulatory requirements, and ease of entry
- Build export opportunities across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and other global markets
- Identify distributors, traders, buyers, OEMs, manufacturers, industrial users, and strategic customers
- Conduct international customer research and develop targeted outreach plans
- Support quotations, negotiations, commercial discussions, and deal closure
- Coordinate with logistics, documentation, compliance, customs, and shipping partners
- Build repeat export business rather than one-time transactions

Business Development and Program Management Own projects end-to-end:

Market Research → Opportunity Selection → Supplier/Manufacturer → Sample/Validation → International Customer → Commercial Deal → Export → Repeat Business → Scale

You will coordinate across internal teams, manufacturers, suppliers, customers, logistics partners, compliance teams, and other stakeholders to ensure execution.

This role will involve clear commercial targets, including identifying viable opportunities, developing qualified international leads, securing supplier and customer relationships, generating export orders, and contributing to revenue and gross margin growth.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for someone who understands industrial markets, thinks commercially, and executes aggressively.

You should have

- Relevant experience in critical minerals, rare earth metals, metals and minerals, mining, refining, processing, advanced materials, battery materials, or related industrial sectors
- Strong business and market research skills
- Understanding of manufacturing, processing, refining, sourcing, and supply chains
- Knowledge of international trade, exports, and global market development
- Ability to identify international markets and convert market research into customer opportunities
- Strong communication, business development, and negotiation skills
- Ability to evaluate products, suppliers, customers, pricing, margins, and business opportunities
- Strong execution, follow-up, and relationship-management skills
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders across countries and time zones




- Comfort with ambiguity, targets, and fast-moving environments
- Strong ownership, commercial judgment, and attention to detail

Preferred Background Experience in one or more of the following areas is preferred:
- Critical minerals
- Rare earth metals
- Metals, minerals, mining, refining, or processing
- Battery materials and energy materials
- Advanced materials
- Recycling and recovery of strategic materials
- Industrial products and components
- Manufacturing and supply chains
- Export / import and international trade
- International business development
- Procurement and sourcing
- B2B sales
- Chemicals and specialty materials
- Defence, aerospace, electronics, or other strategic industries

Experience working with international customers, distributors, traders, OEMs, industrial buyers, or export markets will be highly valuable. Engineering, materials science, metallurgy, commerce, economics, business, supply chain, international trade, or related backgrounds are welcome.

Candidates without relevant industry experience may apply only if they can demonstrate strong commercial ability, international market research skills, and a clear understanding of critical minerals, rare earth metals, or related strategic industries.

Targets and Performance Expectations

This is a target-driven role. Success will be measured by commercial outcomes, including:

- High-potential critical mineral, rare earth, metal, material, and industrial product opportunities identified
- International markets researched and prioritized
- Qualified global customers and buyers identified
- Manufacturer, processor, refiner, recycler, and supplier partnerships established
- Samples, technical validations, and commercial discussions completed
- Export opportunities developed
- First commercial orders secured
- Revenue and gross margin generated
- Repeat international business developed
- Recent business lines launched and scaled

The goal is not to produce research reports. The goal is to identify real opportunities, find the right suppliers and customers, enter international markets, secure export orders, and build profitable businesses.

Why Join

- Work directly with the founders
- Build new business lines from zero
- Work across critical minerals, rare earth metals, advanced materials, manufacturing, and global markets
- Develop international customers and export markets
- Gain exposure to strategic and high-growth industries
- High ownership, autonomy, and responsibility
- Opportunity to build global partnerships
- Performance-based incentives and growth opportunities
- ESOP opportunity for exceptional performers

Application

Send your resume to

[email protected]

Subject: Business Program Manager | [Your Name]

Please highlight any relevant experience in critical minerals, rare earth metals, metals and minerals, mining, refining, processing, advanced materials, battery materials, manufacturing, international trade, or exports .

📌 Senior Program Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Black Mass Energies
📍 Bengaluru