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The Global Sourcing Team sources components from all over the world that are important to the success of our printers and other products we produce. Our team must carefully balance our needs to lower costs while ensuring high-performance, reliability, and abundant supply. You’ll work with our suppliers face-to-face to expand the capabilities of Formlabs and directly improve our products. If a passion for streamlining and optimization inspires you, we want you as a Global Sourcing Manager.
Job Responsibility
Negotiating with suppliers on cost and maintaining commitments
Work directly with our contract manufacturers in keeping our material pipeline flowing
Identify and convert cost reduction opportunities based on solid understanding of cost drivers and manufacturing processes
Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on supply chain health
Initiate and complete supplier audits to ensure their ability to meet part performance and on time delivery
Lead the supplier selection process with inputs from cross functional teams
Partner with engineering to improve specifications to ensure quality components and design for manufacturing, able to influence design as a subject matter expert
Requirements
2-5 years post graduate experience working in a strategic sourcing, manufacturing, or supply chain role
Must be fluent in both Chinese and English
Skilled at negotiation and holding suppliers accountable
Able to travel internationally (up to 20%) to visit suppliers for quality audits, QBRs, and relationship building
Experience developing process quality plans, supplier quality audits, and driving yield improvements
Excited to source, contact, and evaluate potential suppliers for quality, reliability, and capacity
Ability to read and interpret engineering spec , drawings & GD&T
An independent worker and team player who is excited to work cross-functionally with a wide variety of teams