Oura
Senior Sourcing Manager, Mechanicals
Hybrid - San Francisco, California. Posted 9 months ago
The role
The Senior Sourcing Manager will lead strategic sourcing and supplier management for mechanical components and assemblies. This role involves building sourcing strategies for high-volume production, supplier scalability, and cost optimization across hardware programs.
What you will do
- Lead mechanical sourcing for NPI and sustaining programs
- Drive end-to-end commercial negotiations
- Partner with Engineering to align design requirements with supplier manufacturing capability
- Lead supplier onboarding including capability assessments and audits
- Establish and manage supplier performance through KPIs and business reviews
- Build and maintain should-cost models and drive benchmarking
- Own mechanical supply continuity planning
- Collaborate with Ops/CM partners to ensure mechanical supply supports production
- Support execution activities such as PO placement and issue resolution
- Improve sourcing processes by implementing scalable working practices
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in consumer electronics and/or supply chain, including mechanical sourcing and supplier management
- Strong experience sourcing mechanical components such as CNC, injection molding, stamping, MIM, and surface finishing
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex programs with competing priorities and tight timelines
- Proven negotiation skills across unit cost, tooling/NRE, contracts, and supply agreements
- Experience supporting NPI builds (EVT/DVT/PVT or equivalent) through ramp and mass production
- Strong analytical skills including cost modeling, data-driven supplier evaluation, and scenario planning
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to influence cross-functionally
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and driving structure across multiple work streams
- Ability to travel ~25% domestically and internationally
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
- 20 days of paid time off
- 13 paid holidays
- 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave
- Parental leave
About the company
ŌURA's products help their global community gain knowledge of readiness, activity, and sleep quality using the Oura Ring and connected app. The company is a quickly growing organization focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives.