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Contract Manufacturing Manager — Strategic Sourcing / Contract Manufacturing

Meta
9 days ago
Full-time
On-site
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$121,000 - $177,000 USD yearly
Meta is currently seeking a Contract Manufacturing Manager that will lead and be responsible for the business relationship with our CM/ODM partners to build our innovative AR/VR products. In this role, you will lead the cross-functional efforts to identify, engage and enable the right partner for our consumer hardware business. You will be responsible for developing the strategic relationship with our partners, including negotiating commercial agreements, costs, optimizing the collaboration between the teams and developing long term strategy to grow a robust partnership. You will work closely with Hardware engineering, Operations, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain Strategy and other cross-functional teams to create an efficient and innovative supply chain to support successful builds, ramps, and sustaining operations.

Develop, sustain and grow a meaningful relationship with our partners to ensure best support to our product and advanced technology development

Lead new product RFP/RFQ and business award process, including establishing supplier selection criteria, evaluating suppliers, managing the supplier selection process, and driving final supplier selection in partnership with engineering, technical operations, quality and supplier chain teams

Negotiate commercial agreements with best-in-class pricing, flexibility, quality, delivery, payment, warranty and service terms to meet both technical, operational and commercial requirements (including MVA, NRE & CapEx)

Manage budget process for Opex and CapEx with cross-functional teams and various levels of management, reporting spend vs actual

Lead and manage cost optimization opportunities with partner and internal cross-functional teams

Develop and implement supplier performance measurement systems and conduct periodic supplier business reviews with the management and cross functional teams, and follow through with subsequent improvement action plans

Manage escalations from the teams and address the concerns with the partner to drive short-term and long-term improvement actions

5+ years of progressive Supply Chain experience with primary focus on Contract Manufacturing in the high-volume hardware manufacturing

5+ years of experience managing Asia supply base

Experience building Supplier Relationships

Proven background in supplier/evaluation/selection, predictive cost models, contract negotiations and supply base management

Experience communicating with all levels of management

Experience operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Experience working in and managing high volume, consumer electronic product launches and delivery

BS degree in a relevant engineering field (e.g., supply chain, industrial, mechanical, or electrical engineering) or equivalent experience

Willingness to travel (10-15% of time) and open to work with different time zones

Master's degree in a related engineering discipline or MBA

Broad experience in factory operations, quality, hardware and electrical engineering, product safety and compliance, logistics and trade compliance

Experience navigating through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment and prioritize multiple work threads to maximize impact