Meta AR/VR Job | Strategic Sourcing Manager – Battery, Charging, and Circuit Boards (Battery) | Oculus
Job（岗位）: Strategic Sourcing Manager – Battery, Charging, and Circuit Boards (Battery) | Oculus
Type（岗位类型）: Operations
Citys（岗位城市）: Shanghai, China
Date（发布日期）: 2022-2-13
Summary（岗位介绍）
Come and develop, drive, and deliver new products in the world of AR/VR! We’re looking for individuals that want to be on the ground floor of breakthrough technologies and help build a world class sourcing team. As a Strategic Sourcing Manager (SSM), you will be responsible for developing the key strategic relationships with critical power suppliers (in particular battery cell and pack) including exploration of new or advanced technologies, part costing, and supply chain management. This role is dependent on close collaboration with Battery Engineering, Program Management, Technical Operations, and other cross-functional teams. During the product development process, you are responsible for ensuring the suppliers are prepared to support the delivery of key parts on-time at specified quality, and yield parameters and are prepared to meet the ramp quantities. It is the SSM’s primary objective to ensure suppliers meet or exceed commercial and technical requirements throughout the life-cycle of the product(s).
Qualifications（岗位要求）
• BS degree • 3+ years work experience in sourcing or related disciplines in power including battery cell and pack or related commodities. • Experience in technology and supplier evaluation/selection, should cost models, contract negotiations and supply base management • Leadership, program management, and cross-functional teamwork experience • Experience communicating with and influencing all levels of management especially senior and executive leadership. • Ability to self-start by grasping snapshot of current landscape, requirements, gaps, and ability to execute strategy.
Description（岗位职责）
• Develop commodity or category sourcing strategies ensuring the suppliers are capable of meeting RL’s current and future technical and business requirements • Be knowledgeable in battery cell and pack • Explore and recommend new or advanced technologies to implement and routinely keep key stakeholders apprised of market trends/technologies • Continually benchmark the industry to monitor technology trends and ensure best practices are incorporated into the RL supply chain • Establish supplier selection criteria, evaluate alternative suppliers, manage the RFQ process, and drive final supplier selection in partnership with the Battery Engineering Team, Quality, and other cross-functional partners • Negotiate various agreements as needed with suppliers to establish best-in-class pricing, flexibility, quality, delivery, payment, warranty, and service terms • Formulate contingency plans to de-risk technical challenges, long lead time, single source, and any supply issue • Institute programs to optimize schedule flexibility while minimizing excess inventory exposure • Work with CM partners to resolve any part shortages or quality problems which affects production schedules • Own the ramp plan, ongoing production plan and forecast, tooling qualification schedule and tooling life for all designated suppliers • Influence supplier technology roadmaps and create internal disruptive value-add to ensure Facebook’s system architecture and commercial requirements are met • Establish and manage strategic supplier relationships at the executive level
Additional Requirements（额外要求）
• Advanced engineering degree and/or MBA • Experience with high volume, consumer electronics products • Mechanical or EE engineering background and working experience with batteries. • 5+ years of sourcing experience with 3+ years of experience managing suppliers with factories in China and Asia • Heavy Influence, collaboration, and partnership. • Comfort operating in ambiguous XFN environment and ability to drive issue resolution.
