The Sourcing Manager, Metals & Signal at eero plays a critical role in the overall success of eero’s product fulfillment model by:
- Maintaining key supplier relationships for commodity types including but not limited to PCBs, antennas, and fabricated metal
- Finding and executing on opportunities to improve supply chain cost competitiveness
- Finding and developing new strategic suppliers that offer the technologies, materials, and processes required for new products
- Working with eero’s hardware engineering, product management, legal, operations, and other teams to support both new and sustaining hardware programs
Key job responsibilities
- Lead all commercial operations and strategy with supply base of assigned commodities, including achievement of cost saving goals through negotiation, risk management, and issue resolution with a cross functional team
- Thoroughly understand and appropriately apply legal contract terms
- Negotiate and execute new contracts
- Research new suppliers, technologies, materials, and processes
- Develop & manage cost models; forecast costs and proactively identify opportunities to reduce product cost
- Own NPI program budgets for all assigned commodities
- Build strong relationships with key supplier contacts and lead supplier escalations as appropriate
- Own forward costing estimates for assigned commodities; work with supply chain to validate costs paid to contract manufacturers are correct
- Analyze supplier cost structure and competitive landscape to identify and negotiate cost saving opportunities and mitigate cost increases
- Coordinate inventory levels on products leading into ramp down and EOL phases to minimize excess
- Support requests for engineering changes and negotiate NRE with suppliers
- Travel up to 20% of the time to suppliers in China, Vietnam, and elsewhere in Asia
A day in the life
Day-to-day, the Sourcing Manager is responsible for prioritizing his or her own work based on the needs of the business. Common activities include meeting with suppliers and internal teams, raising purchase requisitions and tracking spend, and building cost and capacity models that help drive financial budgets and procurement decisions.
About the team
WiFi is the new electricity. Outside the smartphone, it’s the technology we depend on the most. The foundation for the modern home. The basement of Maslow’s pyramid. It makes our favorite experiences -- Netflix, Spotify, FaceTime -- come to life.
But at best, WiFi is like death by a thousand cuts: dead zones, painful setup, embarrassing passwords, equipment that’s a major eyesore. At worst, it's a complete failure -- usually right when you need WiFi most.
eero is fixing all of that. It’s not easy, which is why we’ve built a world-class team and culture. We believe deeply in what we’re doing, and, more importantly, enjoy doing it together. Come join us.
- 8+ years of high volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments experience
- Experience in data analysis using tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, or equivalent
- Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical field
- Experience in confidential environments
- 5+ years experience in commodity management roles for assigned commodities
- Experience in negotiations with global suppliers with a proven track record in cost reduction
- Experience in procurement practices working with engineering, supply chain and Tier 1 OEM partners
- Experience practicing best-in-class procurement processes (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, or equivalent)
- Experience with Six Sigma, or analytical and process improvement techniques
- Speak, write, and read fluently in Vietnamese
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