At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.
This role is a hybrid position.
Some roles require an office while others may be done remotely. This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration. Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of our Glasgow, Scotland office locations.
What You’ll Do
* Manage supplier relationships and commercial activities such as business and technology reviews, RFQs, and roadmap/strategy discussions.
* Craft comprehensive commodity and business strategies aimed at maximizing efficiency and driving down costs through strategic initiatives,
* Lead executive business reviews with internal/ external stakeholders.
* Establish commodity strategic direction by working with our technical teams, understanding the technical and the necessary business requirements that allow for a competitive advantage and position us for profitable growth. This requires a deep understanding of the supply base, technical needs and cost structures.
* Build robust supply chains based on product requirements and needs at the most basic levels of our supply chain to ensure that we have a complete and thorough understanding of the Sonos supply chain.
* Ensure continuity of supply. Set up long-term/ short-term capacity planning with supplier, partner with Operations and Material teams to schedule supply to meet Sonos’s component demand.
* Collaborate with Product design and Engineering teams to review initial specifications of the parts/modules recommend sources to influence technical decisions in early phase of the program.
* Be able to manage multiple projects in parallel.
* Evaluate technical and business risks, analyze based on the data and create mitigation plans/alternatives.
* Need to support management of development builds, materials, and any risk to execute successful ramp in NPI stage.
What You’ll Need
Basic Qualifications:
* BS degree with strong technical acumen and business understanding.
* 8+ years work experience in sourcing related field.
* Ability to toggle between strategic and detail oriented thinking.
* Top-notch negotiation skills.
* Ability to influence cross functional teams.
* Demonstrated ability to apply analytical techniques to problem solving.
* Strategic thinker and result oriented.
* Natural leadership competencies; influences others through style and subject matter expertise.
* An ability to balance business and technical objectives in decision making.
* Excellent communication/presentation skills.
* Ability to effectively work in multicultural global business environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Bachelor degrees or Master degree in electrical engineering preferred.
* Travel within US as well as internationally up to 15% of the time.
* Experience in consumer electronics industry.
* Established relationships with suppliers and supply chains.
* General understanding of semiconductor supply chains, manufacturing processes, and silicon platform development.
* Experience in systems - Arena, Microstrategy, Tableau, SAP.
* Hands-on experience in any of the following: Electrical Engineering, Semiconductor markets, Pricing strategy for electrical parts.
Research shows that some candidates may not apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if interested.
Visa Sponsorship :Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time. We ask that applicants be authorized to work for any US employer, both now and in the future.
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