Your Impact

Does the thought of finding ways to leverage technology to help others excite you? Do you enjoy transforming requirements into real products and helping to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical parties? The mission as the Mechanical Sourcing Engineer is to build a world-class mechanical supplier network for our products that can ensure continuity of supply, scale to support demand, provides cost reduction, anticipates, and mitigates supply chain risks. You will work throughout the product development lifecycle executing strategic projects to optimize commodities, sub commodities and individual suppliers; executing detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub supplier management and to launch new products and sustain existing products.

What You’ll Do

Location: Onsite at our Scottsdale, Arizona office 3-5 days a week, and on the road 20% of time
Reports to: Sr. Category Manager, Mechanical
Mechanical Commodity: metal, plastic, rubber, cable/wire, battery, energetics, and more

• Proactively communicate with the design engineering teams prior to and during the NPI development process to understand their current & future needs for new product components; influencing by leveraging industry experience.
• Work with the Mechanical Category managers on sourcing decisions that are aligned with their strategies. Provide the tools, methodologies, techniques, and technical insight to drive intelligent sourcing of mechanical products.
• Seek cross-functional team agreement on discrepancies.
• Establish strong relationships with manufacturers and their associated representatives to understand product roadmaps and availability to support future product development.
• Work with the sourcing team to develop and ramp component sources for new/existing products and support the purchasing team’s efforts to ensure components are purchased in a timely manner for the different engineering builds.
• Assist the respective category managers and cross-functional category teams in developing and executing multidimensional commodity strategies that support the NPI work stream with an emphasis on cost optimization, time to market, technology, quality, supply continuity, supply chain consolidation, service, and risk mitigation.
• Support negotiations of Axon pricing at the component level for mechanical commodities; partnering with the category managers to develop and execute negotiation strategies with new product suppliers to achieve specific targets for pricing, service, quality & delivery.
• Ensure supplier awards for new business are leveraged in pricing negotiations.
• Identify and manage the implementation of cost reduction opportunities on new/existing products in collaboration with the category management and continuous engineering teams.
• Identify risks in our current supply chain and work together with the mechanical category manager, continuous engineering team and component engineer to qualify additional sources of supply for critical components. Lead teams in identification of risks/hazards relative to new/existing product designs, processes, suppliers, and applications.
• Assist the mechanical category manager & Legal teams in negotiating and executing optimal contract terms with key new/existing suppliers.
• Participate in the supplier selection process and ensure supplier selections are based on sound selection criteria for new product introduction and existing product activities to select the right supplier for the part, considering long term fit and total cost of ownership.
• Participate in periodic business reviews with key suppliers to review supplier performance on new/existing product programs
• Own the development and maintenance of the approved manufacturer’s list.

What You Bring

• BS in Mechanical Engineering, Supply Chain or related field.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in engineering, supply chain, technical sourcing.
• Work experience in a new product introduction (NPI) and legacy sourcing environment is preferred.
• Experience with mechanical tool design is preferred.
• Work experience in manufacturing or related experience is preferred.
• Experience with a high mix/low volume procurement environment is preferred.
• Ability to work on multiple cross functional projects simultaneously.
• Ability to develop strong relationships with key stakeholders to drive proper rigor in supplier selection process.
• Self-motivation and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage rapid changes typical during the NPI development process
• Skilled at pricing negotiations and terms & conditions negotiations.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office software packages.
• Excellent communicator, ability to lead in an environment of in-direct control.
• Communicates effectively in a dynamic, multidisciplinary team environment to meet internal and external customer demands.
• Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead and influence change in the face of complexity and ambiguity.
• Proficient with managing and understanding cross-cultural business practices.
• Located or willing to relocate to Scottsdale, AZ.
• Ability to influence without authority, create win/win situations, and produce results.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, product specifications, procedures and standard.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 60,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 80,000 in the highest geographic market. The on target earnings range for this role is between USD 60,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 90,000 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit www.axon.com/careers/benefits (http://www.axon.com/careers/benefits).