
Program Manager III, Supply Chain Readiness, Technical Infrastructure
- Sunnyvale, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in program management.
- Experience driving materials and supply chain readiness for hardware or manufacturing operations.
- 5 years of experience in managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience across all phases of a product from prototype to mass production to end of life.
- Experience driving new product introduction (NPI) builds for hardware products (networking, infrastructure, and server, storage, equipment, PCBA, accelerators).
- Experience with Supply/Demand Planning and Accounting/Finance.
- Ability to influence across multiple levels of an organization and lead cross-functional process improvements.
- Excellent investigative and communication skills.
- Drive material and supply chain readiness for all NPI builds from concept phase to production handoff, partner with cross-functional teams to ensure success.
- Identify and communicate supply chain risks and mitigation plans to ensure materials readiness for NPI builds as well as enabling long term supply continuity into production.
- Update project schedules, communicate status, risks and influence change, and represent the New Product Introduction Supply Chain organization in internal program meetings, drive initiatives and process improvements to help the team grow in scalability.
- Be the primary materials liaison with ODM/CM/Suppliers, manage spend against project budgets, and drive large production risk buys and strategic buffers.
- Develop and document global supply chain map for each product, including suppliers, procurement model, lead time, shipment logistics, assembly/test/fulfillment model, and spares strategies.