Senior Global Supply Manager

The role

The Senior Global Supply Manager will own sourcing strategy and supplier execution for key product families from early development through production. This person will partner with multiple departments to ensure supplier availability, commercial agreements, costs, and supply-chain risk posture support drone development and production scale.

What you will do

• Lead sourcing strategy for assigned product families from concept through high-rate production
• Drive supplier selection for new products and long-term strategic needs
• Partner with Engineering and Product Development for part-specific sourcing and supplier readiness
• Track NPI material required dates, supplier lead times, and sourcing risks
• Own commercial cost-down initiatives including cost modeling and supplier negotiation
• Partner with Supplier Quality Engineers to assess supplier capability and capacity
• Manage supplier relationships, run QBRs, and review scorecards
• Negotiate MSAs, LTAs, payment terms, and other commercial agreements
• Maintain accurate item master data

Required qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in strategic sourcing, global supply management, supply chain program management, commodity management, or a closely related supply chain role
• Experience supporting NPI programs, prototype builds, production ramps, or fast-changing product-development environments
• Demonstrated ability to select suppliers, run RFX/RFQ processes, negotiate commercial terms, and manage supplier relationships
• Experience with supplier risk reduction, including sole-source mitigation, lead-time reduction, cost-down execution, and commercial contract improvements
• Ability to partner directly with Engineering, Product Development, Supplier Quality, Planning, Purchasing, Finance, and Operations
• Strong commercial judgment, negotiation skills, analytical ability, and comfort using data to support supplier and sourcing decisions
• Experience maintaining supplier or item master data such as preferred suppliers, lead times, pricing, commodity classifications, or approved supplier lists
• Ability to operate with urgency in an ambiguous, hardware-focused environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to work onsite in Torrance, CA

Nice to have

• Experience sourcing mechanical, electrical, PCB/PCBA, harness, optics, camera, black box, aerospace, semiconductor, automotive, robotics, or other hardware-related commodities
• Experience negotiating MSAs, LTAs, tiered pricing agreements, payment terms, cancellation clauses, or other production-scale commercial agreements
• Experience using supplier scorecards, QBRs, ASLs, supplier categorization, or supplier performance management systems
• Experience with DFM, supplier capability assessments, capacity assessments, or supplier industrialization
• Experience in aerospace, defense, drones, robotics, high-growth manufacturing, or startup hardware environments

About the company

Neros is a defense technology company rebuilding America’s drone industrial base. They design and manufacture high-performance unmanned systems.