Senior Manager, Supply Chain Engineering

Job Description

Manages a team of engineers responsible for evaluating and qualifying supplier components at varying degrees of complexity and integration level. Leads supplier development initiatives, collaborating with design and procurement teams to enhance supplier capabilities and ensure seamless integration of components into product development. Ensures supplier readiness for New Product Introduction, monitoring team activities that support components and supplier processes are validated and production-ready before full-scale launch. Develops and enforces robust processes for managing non-conforming components, including quarantine, rework, and disposition strategies. Provides technical leadership on design changes, process optimizations, and supplier transitions, mitigating risk and ensuring minimal impact on production and quality.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Select and Qualify Components:

-Manages a team of engineers responsible for

evaluating and qualifying supplier components at varying degrees of complexity

and integration level, ensuring alignment with technical specifications,

reliability standards, and lifecycle requirements.

-Provides technical and strategic direction on

complex component reliability assessments, leveraging supplier data, industry

standards, and accelerated life testing methodologies to drive informed

decision-making.

-Partners with Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Security,

and Test Engineering teams to establish robust qualification criteria, ensuring

components meet product performance, safety, and manufacturability standards.

-Drives supplier-driven quality and process

improvement initiatives, reviewing manufacturing processes, material

traceability, and process controls to enhance overall component consistency and

reliability.

Supplier Engagement:

-Manages supplier relationships, ensuring

alignment on technical specifications, quality expectations, and production commitments

to support business objectives.

-Manages supplier audit processes, assessing

production capabilities, process controls, and adherence to quality and

security management systems, driving improvements where needed.

-Leads supplier development initiatives,

collaborating with design and procurement teams to enhance supplier

capabilities and ensure seamless integration of components into product

development.

-Executes strategies to improve supplier

efficiency, yield, and overall product quality through continuous collaboration

and performance monitoring.

New Product Introduction:

-Ensures supplier readiness for New Product

Introduction (NPI), monitoring team activities that support components and

supplier processes are validated and production-ready before full-scale launch.

-Leads supplier coordination efforts, aligning

production plans with project timelines, demand forecasts, and

manufacturability requirements.

-Monitors pilot production validation efforts,

ensuring that supplier manufacturing processes meet established quality, cost,

and performance expectations.

Failure Analysis:

-Oversees the resolution of supplier-related

quality excursions and failures, ensuring timely and effective

corrective/preventive actions (RCA, CAPA).

-Leads failure analysis investigations on supplier

components, utilizing advanced analytical techniques (e.g., X-ray, scanning

electron microscopy [SEM], electrical testing) to determine failure modes and

prevent recurrence.

-Defines and monitors key supplier quality

metrics, including yield, defect rates, and overall performance, implementing

data-driven continuous improvement initiatives.

-Develops and enforces robust processes for

managing non-conforming components, including quarantine, rework, and

disposition strategies.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

-Serves as the primary interface between internal

stakeholders, facilitating alignment with Design, Operations, Quality, and

Procurement teams.

-Drives cross-functional initiatives to enhance

product quality, reduce costs, and improve supply chain performance, ensuring

business objectives are met.

-Provides technical leadership on design changes,

process optimizations, and supplier transitions, mitigating risk and ensuring

minimal impact on production and quality.

-Develops and mentors a high-performing

engineering team, fostering technical expertise, strategic thinking, and

leadership capabilities to support long-term business success.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

-Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects

or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when

applicable are monitored and met. Provides direction to teams on project work,

setting priorities, and aligning with business needs. Guides teams on adjusting

plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.

Collaboration & Partnership:

-Drives cross-functional partnerships to align on

expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams. Coaches team members

to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and

external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success. Promotes

inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring

others feel heard and respected.

Problem Solving:

-Provides direction to multiple teams on

addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing

guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions.

Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the

team to identify potential solutions.

Continuous Learning:

-Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen

expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into

strategic planning. Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skill

improvements. Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to

pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise

in new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.

Continuous Improvement:

-Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and

implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes,

protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight. Guides

team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages

feedback for continued improvement.

Performance and Development:

-Drives performance across teams by providing

feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes,

guidelines, and expectations. Discusses development goals with team members,

shares opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individual

goals are aligned with broader organizational goals. Develops and manages

talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring

promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - M3

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