Sr. Manager of Procurement

Job Summary

You will own the commercial relationship with our final assembly and test (FATP) CM/ODM partners, plus sourcing strategy, supplier selection, negotiation, and supply assurance for our most strategic commodities and modules across cellular cameras, feeders, and connected devices — all built through Asia-based ODM/JDM partners.

We have solid sources in place today. Your job is to build on them: develop direct relationships with the manufacturers behind our most critical components, and add resiliency where we do not have it yet. This is a senior individual-contributor role that partners closely with Engineering, Operations, Finance, and external suppliers.

Job Responsibilities

Commodity strategy

• End-to-end sourcing for our highest-spend and highest-risk commodities — sole-source CPUs, memory, RF modules, PIRs, and allocated or long-lead parts — from supplier identification through award and performance management.
• A commodity technology roadmap that anticipates component trends before they constrain our product roadmap, and the Approved Vendor List for strategic commodities.

Supplier and FATP partnerships

• Pricing, capacity, and commercial terms with ODM/JDM partners and strategic suppliers, including multi-year agreements covering quality, IP protection, tooling ownership, and end-of-life provisions.
• Contract management end to end: structured RFI/RFQ processes, and NDAs, master agreements, and pricing and capacity agreements in place before business starts.
• Relationships with high-value suppliers that unlock co-development, secure allocation, and bring their best engineering talent to our products.

Cost

• Should-cost and bottoms-up models, managing fully burdened cost — tooling, logistics, yield, scrap, duties, end-of-life — not just unit price.
• Year-over-year structural cost-out through value engineering, competitive sourcing, and influence on design decisions.
• Cost forecasting for managed spend, including commodity, FX, and logistics exposure, with a rolling outlook for Finance.

Supply risk and resilience

• Dual-source and geographic diversification strategies, with second sources qualified ahead of need.
• Allocation, last-time buys, and end-of-life transitions for long-lead and memory-exposed parts, so availability never gates a launch or a selling season.
• The supply-risk framework: capacity forecasting, contingency plans, and early escalation on supplier financial health.

New product introduction

• Supplier involvement across every phase — concept, EVT, DVT, PVT, ramp, and sustaining — with real influence on design for manufacturability, cost, and supply.
• Partnership with our on-site ODM/JDM resource to diagnose and fix component-driven yield and quality issues with ground truth from the line.

Job Requirements

• 10+ years in procurement, sourcing, or supply management, ideally in consumer electronics, including ownership of high-spend or high-risk commodities and complex multiparty negotiations.
• A track record of negotiating favorable NDAs, master agreements, and pricing and capacity agreements.
• Experience sourcing through Asia-based CMs, ODMs, or JDMs, with real fluency in process, yield, and DFM trade-offs.
• Hands-on should-cost modeling and fully burdened, landed-cost analysis.
• Familiarity with core device components: cellular modules, Bluetooth, GPS, image sensors, memory (NAND, DDR4, eMMC), PIRs, PCBA, and RF/antenna.
• Working knowledge of tariffs, country-of-origin sourcing, and what they mean for cost, lead time, and resilience.
• A bachelor's degree in Engineering (Electrical preferred), Supply Chain, Business, or a related field, and a willingness to travel internationally.

Essential Job Function

• Our riskiest commodities never gate a launch or a demand forecast, and we never air freight to cover a supply gap.
• Structural cost-down delivered year over year and validated against should-cost.
• Every sole-source and allocated part has a qualified, contract-ready second source.
• Master agreements with favorable terms are signed with every strategic supplier and FATP partner before business begins.