Global Supply Manager - Electrical & Electronics

The role

The Global Supply Manager owns sourcing strategy and supplier relationships for electronics including PCB, PCBA, compute, and sensors. This role determines supplier selection, cost, risk, and capacity to support volume growth from prototype to scaled production.

What you will do

• Own commodity strategy for PCB fabrication, PCBA/EMS, wire harness, compute modules, sensors and perception hardware, and board-level components.
• Define the supply-base architecture for each commodity.
• Create and run RFQs and RFPs, and lead supplier selection and contract award.
• Develop should-cost models addressing real cost drivers.
• Negotiate pricing, NRE, tooling, minimum order quantities, and commercial terms.
• Own commodity cost targets and multi-year cost-reduction roadmaps.
• Maintain costed-BOM visibility for assigned commodities.
• Drive dual and multi-source coverage on critical content.
• Build and maintain AVL/AML strategy.
• Own component-level supply-risk strategy.

Required qualifications

• Direct ownership of electronics commodities in a strategic sourcing, commodity management, or global supply management capacity.
• Deep hands-on experience in at least two of: PCB fabrication, PCBA/EMS, wire harness and cable assembly, compute hardware, sensors.
• Proven should-cost modeling capability and a negotiation track record with quantified results on electronics categories.
• Demonstrated experience developing commodity cost roadmaps and driving design-to-cost, VA/VE, and cost-reduction initiatives jointly with engineering.
• Experience developing and qualifying suppliers internationally, including managing regional footprint and concentration risk.
• Ability to read schematics, BOMs, fabrication and harness drawings, and test specifications.
• Experience managing semiconductor and electronic-component allocation, long-lead materials, NCNR commitments, lifecycle risk, EOL events, and last-time buys.
• Experience owning commercial agreements end to end.
• Strong spreadsheet and modeling skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presenting to executive leadership.
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, or related field.
• At least 7 years of experience in strategic sourcing, commodity management, or global supply management with direct ownership of electronics commodities.

Nice to have

• Strong record of applying first-principles thinking to supplier negotiations.
• Track record of managing successful escalations to the executive level within a supplier.
• Experience qualifying and scaling a prototype supplier into a production supplier.
• Experience managing large suppliers through new product development in a high-change environment.
• Robotics, automotive, aerospace, medical device, or high-mix electromechanical background.
• Familiarity with PLM and ERP/MRP data flows for electronic components and with AVL/AML management.
• Experience with Teamcenter or equivalent PLM environment, including BOM revision, AVL/AML, and engineering-change workflows.
• Experience managing country-of-origin, localization, tariff, domestic-content, and supply-chain compliance requirements.
• Experience with APQP, PPAP, or equivalent supplier production-readiness methodologies.
• Working knowledge of IPC standards (IPC-A-610, IPC/WHMA-A-620, IPC-6012) and electronics test strategies including flying probe and in-circuit test.

About the company

Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity. Their flagship humanoid robot, Apollo, is built to collaborate with people in industries such as manufacturing and logistics.