TE Connectivity
5 days ago
Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing (Optics)
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Company information
- Company
- TE Connectivity
- Location
- Singapore Singapore
- Posted
- 5 days ago
Job description
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop Optical commodity strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Monitor global market trends, supply-demand dynamics, and geopolitical factors.
- Mitigate risks related to commodity price fluctuations.
- Identify and develop new suppliers in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Optimize the supplier base to enhance efficiency and quality.
- Conduct RFQs for NPI (New Product Introduction) projects.
- Drive cost reduction initiatives through comprehensive cost analysis, market data evaluation, and negotiation.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to lead Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) projects.
- Coordinate cross-functional efforts to achieve project KPIs including savings, lead time reduction, minimum order quantity optimization, dual sourcing, and localization.
- Lead quarterly supplier scorecard reviews to improve supplier performance in quality, delivery, and cost.
- Identify risks, opportunities, and underperforming suppliers; implement corrective actions to mitigate risks and ensure continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with plant teams as necessary.
- Addressing Business Growth and Market Demands
- Improving Procurement Efficiency and Reducing Costs
- Accelerating Decision-Making and Market Adaptability
- Strengthening Supplier Management / Long-Term Partnerships/ supplier strategy
- This position will strengthen strategic partnerships with key suppliers with multi skills
- Supporting Successful NPI Project Execution.
- Enhancing Localization and Global Expansion
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or above in a relevant field
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- 10 years of experience working in a global/region commodity role in a multinational company.
- 5 years of people management experience
- 5 years of Optical related
- Engineering background is advantageous.
- Proven ability to lead projects, coordinate, problem-solve, and make decisive decisions to achieve results
- Proactive and detail-oriented
- Strong analytical and cross-functional skills
- Ability to understand global markets, collaborate effectively with global teams, and experience in working with suppliers in the Asia-Pacific region and Global
- Understanding of optical transceivers, optical components, CPO, optics passive fiber connectivity, Silicon photonics, Lasers (EML, Vcsel etc) and fiber interfaces
- optical transmission, optical jumpers,
- components used in AI/accelerated computing interconnects.
- Solid understanding of high speed optical transceiver architecture: optics chain, fiber interfaces and optical budgets.
- Knowledge of optical devices and materials:
- Understanding of the manufacturing flow: and key yield, capacity, and lead time drivers.
- Basic familiarity how these influence component selection and cost.
Required skills
- negotiation
- problem-solving
- analytical skills
- kpis
- continuous improvement
- cost reduction
- supplier management
- bachelor's degree
- people management
- optics
- proactive
- savings
- market trends
- commodity strategy
- business growth
- decision-making
- cost analysis
- detail-oriented
- project leadership
- localization
- decision making
- global teams
- multinational company
- english fluency
- engineering background
- value engineering
- npi
- supplier development
- new product introduction
- risk mitigation
- strategic sourcing
- silicon photonics
- global markets
- rfq
- va/ve
- cpo
- supplier performance
- long-term partnerships
- global expansion
- lasers
- market demands
- supplier strategy
- asia-pacific region
- optical components
- cross-functional skills
- procurement efficiency
- dual sourcing
- value analysis
- optical devices
- optical experience
- optical materials
- market adaptability
- manufacturing flow
- lead time reduction
- optical transceivers
- fiber interfaces
- supply-demand
- minimum order quantity
- supplier scorecard
- global commodity role
- passive fiber connectivity
- eml
- vcsel
- optical transmission
- optical jumpers
- ai interconnects
- accelerated computing interconnects
- high-speed optical transceiver architecture
- optics chain
- optical budgets
- yield drivers
- capacity drivers
- lead time drivers
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