Andrea Molina
Logistics Coordinator & Operations
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Solar & Energy Operations
Nearshore Procurement & Logistics for Solar & EPC & Energy Storage & Utility-Scale & Grid teams
Sourcing, POs, supplier follow-up and delivery coordination for modules, inverters, racking and BOS.
A nearshore procurement & logistics is a trained, English-fluent professional based in Latin America who works U.S. hours inside your tools. Kurios City recruits, trains and deploys them in about 21 days, at 30–60% lower cost than a U.S.-based hire — the range published for LatAm back-office operations, with free replacement if the person doesn't perform.
What this role owns
- RFQs and supplier comparison
- PO issuance and tracking
- Delivery scheduling and site coordination
- Inventory reconciliation
- Supplier scorecards
Stack we train on
NetSuiteQuickBooksSmartsheetSAP AribaExcel
Cost comparison
Hiring in the U.S.
$8,000/mo
$96,000 per year
- Salary$57,600
- Mandatory benefits & payroll taxes$19,935
- Social Security + Medicare, FUTA/SUTA, workers' comp, health insurance, 401(k), PTO
- Tools, management & recruiting$18,465
- AI licenceYou pay it
- If they don't work outYou start over
vs
Hiring with Kurios
$3,200/mo
$38,400 per year
- One monthly fee$3,200
- Mandatory benefits & payroll taxes$0
- Handled in-country. None of it lands on your payroll.
- Recruiting, training, managementIncluded
- Claude or Codex licenceIncluded
- If they don't work outFree replacement
You keep, every year$57,600
60% lower · $172,800 over three years
Example figures for a Procurement & Logistics. The U.S. side is fully loaded — what the role actually costs your company, not the salary line. Your real numbers come out of the first call.
| U.S. hire | Kurios nearshore | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | USD 7,000–9,000 | USD 2,800–3,600 |
| Time to fill | 45–90 days | 21 days |
| Training on your stack | Your team's time | Included |
| Replacement | New search | Free |
| Time-zone overlap | Full | Full (UTC−5 / −6) |
Ranges are indicative. Final figures are scoped per market, role and seniority.
What the first 90 days look like
Week 1–3
Maps your current supplier list, lead times and open POs. Builds the tracking that most growing installers are still running out of a spreadsheet and a group chat.
Week 4–8
Owns PO issuance, expediting and the delivery calendar. Starts a documented log of supplier performance against promised dates.
Month 3+
Owns lead-time risk. The job is knowing which module, inverter or transformer order is about to slip, three weeks before it slips.
How to tell a good procurement & logistics from a cheap one
Procurement in energy is a relationship and paperwork job, not a negotiation job at your volume. Someone claiming they will cut your module pricing 15% is overselling; you are not buying at a scale where that is available. What you are buying is somebody who calls the supplier every Tuesday and notices when the answer changes. Check for follow-through discipline, not deal-making swagger.
How this role is measured
Lead-time slips caught early. Nobody can stop a supplier missing a date. What a good coordinator does is notice three weeks before, when you still have options.
| What we track | Why it is the right number |
|---|---|
| Slips flagged before the delivery date | The whole job in one number |
| Supplier response consistency | When «on schedule» quietly becomes «we will confirm» |
| PO cycle time | Requisition to issued |
| On-time delivery by supplier | Logged, so the pattern is visible at renewal |
These are the numbers we report back to you, not internal vanity metrics. If one of them stops moving, that is the conversation to have in the weekly check-in.
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Frequently asked
How far ahead can they see a delay coming?
Realistically three to four weeks, and only because somebody is asking the same supplier the same question every week. The signal is almost never an announcement — it is the answer changing from a date to a range. Nobody catches that without a weekly rhythm and a written log of what was promised.
Do they negotiate with suppliers directly?
They run the correspondence and the expediting; pricing authority stays with you unless you delegate it. Most clients keep commercial terms in-house for the first six months and hand over routine reorders once the supplier relationships are documented.
Can they handle customs and freight for imported equipment?
They coordinate with your broker and track the shipment; they are not a licensed customs broker. The value is that someone is watching the container daily instead of discovering a hold when the crew is already scheduled.