Senior Global Supply Manager

Success Criteria

• Drive the sourcing and supplier selection process for mechanical components and assemblies to support Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations goals and objectives.
• Develop and implement sourcing and cost management and strategies that support existing platforms and new product development.
• Develop and implement supply continuity plans for critical components.
• Assess market conditions, identify industry best practices and emerging trends to identify new cost reduction and value creation opportunities.
• Lead and participate in cross-functional teams to find, assess, and select suppliers that will improve value to the organization and help attain targeted business results.
• Negotiate and implement appropriate contracts with suppliers.
• Establish and implement procurement policies with suppliers to ensure quality, delivery, and cost improvements including KPI’s and scorecards.
• Relationship management, market intelligence on potential suppliers, monitoring vendor deliverables and schedules.
• Communicate the demand forecast as necessary to ensure supply continuity, and and capacity availability.
• Analysis of technical and business risks and development strategies for mitigation.
• Interface with product development, operations, business development and other groups to ensure key supply chain partners’ performance is well aligned to the needs of the business.

Your Experience and Qualifications

• 3 -5 years of experience in procurement or supply chain management, including experience managing mechanical component and assembly sourcing and procurement.
• Effective management of component sourcing within a manufacturing environment; RFP/RFQ, supplier selection, project execution, cost and timing management and project close activities.
• Excellent project management and cross-functional team leadership skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at any level; strong preference for spoken and written Mandarin proficiency.
• Strong analytical, research, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to travel globally up to 25%
• Previous experience in working with contract manufacturers, domestic and offshore.
• Strong ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines; able to balance short-term, urgent needs with long-term strategic initiatives.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate and partner with key stakeholders within the Engineering and Product Development organization.  
• Familiarity with cross-functional team project management
• Ability to analyze and problem solve complex operational challenges
• Ability to analyze and problem solve complex operational challenges
• Strong negotiation skills
• Understanding of various sourcing agreements and contracts
• Excellent time management and multitasking skills
• Ability to develop and implement a well-thought-out sourcing strategy.
• Advanced knowledge of procurement and business operations, systems, organizational structure, performance metrics (KPI) and supply base.
• Technical competence – understanding datasheets/specifications, and manufacturing processes.

Traits

• Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to mission objectives
• Successful candidates will be a proponent of personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
• Empathic listener who is solution-oriented in both work and working relationship 
• Consistent bias for action, effective communication, and building positive interpersonal relationships
• Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently with a sense of urgency and teneacity
• Mission-driven and passionate about bringing physical artificial intelligence to general purpose robots