Supply Chain Manager

What You Will Do

• Provides leadership in generating and executing timelines and scopes for production output
• Motivates cross-functional project team members to achieve objectives by evaluating resource requirements, removing obstacles, and delivering constructive feedback as necessary.
• Facilitates risk assessments, promotes informed decision-making, and ensures critical issues are resolved efficiently.
• Holds responsibility for readiness and drives accountability among interdisciplinary teams managing Supply Chain activities and projects essential for high-volume initiatives.
• Develops and implements processes and procedures to guarantee the Supply Chain is informed, engaged, and prepared to execute product strategies.
• Directs cross-functional teams toward alignment of project goals, while ensuring Value Stream and Launch Management teams understand Supply Chain health for relevant business segments.
• Provides supply chain resources for technology readiness and development roadmaps.
• Collaborates extensively with Senior management team, BU Sourcing teams at various sites, Global Category teams, corporate and BU planning teams, R&D, Systems, Process Engineering, Quality, Plant Purchasing teams, Manufacturing, and Operations to ensure sourcing decisions are made in a timely manner and meet performance and reliability standards.
• Identifies and mitigates risks related to technology, capacity, geopolitics, and supply chain
• Ensure supply of materials for North American optical transceiver products
• Stay up to date on the supply risks for the materials
• Lead regular meetings with direct and indirect sourcing/buying teams to keep all updated on latest material status, risks and forward updates
• Review plant purchasing (Purchase Requests and Planned Orders) to place orders as needed to secure supply
• Review multiple sourcing activities (share splits and order execution) to minimize risk
• Quarterly update on material costs with a forward-looking view for the next year
• Work closely with the Product Managers, R&D, Program Management and Production teams to ensure effective communication of needs
• Highlight need for additional demand to be loaded into ERP system to address changing supply conditions and Molex business plans
• Proactively look for problems, gaps, misunderstandings or lack of ownership and/or urgency on issues impacting the security of supply

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's in Engineering, Materials Science, Photonics, or a closely related field
• 5+ years of experience working with NPI projects ramping to high volume production
• Experience with datacom applications

For this role, we anticipate paying $100,000 - $150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

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