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Contract Manufacturing Manager

United States, Sunnyvale 121000.00 - 177000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted March 22, 2026
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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 best 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.

Job Responsibility

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

Requirements

  • 5+ years of progressive Supply Chain experience with primary focus on Contract Manufacturing in the high-volume hardware manufacturing
  • Experience building Supplier Relationships
  • Proven background in supplier/evaluation/selection, predictive cost models, contract negotiations and supply base management
  • Experience working in and managing high volume, consumer electronic product launches and delivery
  • BS degree in a related engineering discipline or equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Broad experience in factory operations, quality, hardware and electrical engineering, product safety and compliance, logistics and trade compliance
  • Experience navigating through ambiguity and prioritize multiple work threads to maximize impact
  • Master degree in a related engineering discipline or MBA
  • Willingness to travel (10-15% of time) and open to work with different time zones
  • 5+ years of experience leading supply base management across Asia, including supplier performance management and cross-functional operations
  • Experience communicating with all levels of management

What we offer

  • bonus
  • equity
  • benefits

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