Palo Alto Sr Director Supply Chain Operations 

United States, California 

805914099

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Your Impact

• Lead a team of senior leaders responsible for EMS/ODM Partnerships, commodity management, materials management, factory execution, compliance & risk, social governance, supply chain security and cost management

• Own and ensure Supply Chain Resilience (SCR). Define, develop, and execute the global SCR strategy, guaranteeing uninterrupted supply and zero material-related disruption to customer delivery targets, regardless of macro-geopolitical or environmental volatility.

• Ensure material availability to support production / demand / build plans that drives quarterly revenue attainment

• Openness and ability to Integrate AI into our supply chain and our contract manufacturing operations…drive exponential scalability and operational efficiency leveraging AI both internally and externally with our EMS partners

• Interface with strategic suppliers and key internal functional teams to appropriately influence sourcing decisions, achieving optimal cost and delivery goals

• Understand all elements of product cost; costed BOM, transformation cost, and key main product cost drivers with cost avoidance activities

• Strategically reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by actively managing and minimizing exposure to key financial detractors, including Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Excess & Obsolete (E&O) inventory, and expediting costs.

• Drive the implementation and maintenance of master purchase agreements (MSA) and SMI/VMI agreements with suppliers

• Drive supplier performance business reviews (SBR), supplier scorecards and annual supplier appreciation event for the direct procurement team

• Collaborate with H/W Engineering & cross-functional teams on establishing technology roadmaps & sourcing strategies for NPI

• Support technical operations and quality management with field quality and customer satisfaction issues

• Manage periodical cost negotiations with a focus on achieving & exceeding cost reduction targets

• Partner with Engineering and NPI teams on driving cost avoidance, resulting in achievement of improved product margin and increased ROI

• Conduct market research to track industry cost trends; leverage benchmarking tools to ensure best in class cost is achieved

• Ensures the corporate compliance initiatives (California Climate Change, Product Carbon Footprint, EU CSRD, etc) are monitored, reported on and executed upon.

Your Experience

• Masters Degree or equivalent experience and 15+ years of combined supply chain, program management, new product introduction, commodity management and compliance & risk experience.

• Excellent cost negotiator with the ability leverage “trade-offs”

• Flexibility to work and achieve goals in a fast-paced, start up type environment with an ability to adapt to changing circumstances

• Expert contract and supply chain cost negotiator

• Excellent supplier management and materials experience

• Business process and/or application configuration knowledge with supply chain

• Experience working directly with EMS Partner’s, Original Design Manufactures and component suppliers in a custom hardware environment than includes SMT/custom PCBA and custom ASIC’s

• Superb verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to successfully work across multiple levels of an organization

• Proficiency in Google Suite (Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides) and Microsoft Excel

• Open to embracing all things AI…leveraging approved internal tools (Google Gemini, Notebook LM, Google Gems, etc) and willing to investigate 3rd party alternatives as needed.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $226,000-308,500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.