Global Supply Chain Manager
$100,000–$500,000 year
On-siteToronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Own global supplier relationships for PCB fabricators, electronics contract manufacturers, and component distributors, including QBRs, KPI management, and multi-year commercial negotiations. Partner with Hardware Engineering and NPI teams to qualify new board designs, coordinate prototype builds, and execute ECOs for production ramp. Align production forecasts with manufacturer capacity to manage demand swings while identifying and mitigating risks related to single-source components, long lead times, and geopolitical exposure. This role sits at the center of NPI execution and production continuity, ensuring our supply base is scalable, cost-competitive, and resilient from BOM creation to final board delivery.
Required Qualifications
- Seasoned in electronics supply chain management
- hands-on experience across PCB fabrication
- PCBA experience
- component sourcing experience
- contract manufacturing operations experience
- Comfortable managing global supplier relationships across Asia
- strong instincts for commercial negotiation
- long-term partnership development skills
- structured, data-driven operator mindset
- ability to manage competing priorities across NPI timelines
- production demand management capability
- supply risk management capability
- effective cross-functional collaboration with Hardware Engineering
- Operations collaboration capability
- Finance collaboration capability
- Procurement collaboration capability
- ability to align on build readiness
- ability to align on cost
- ability to align on delivery commitments
- ability to own global supplier relationships for PCB fabricators
- ability to own electronics contract manufacturers
- ability to own component distributors
- QBR management capability
- KPI management capability
- multi-year commercial negotiations capability
- ability to partner with Hardware Engineering and NPI teams
- ability to qualify new board designs
- ability to qualify new components
- prototype builds coordination capability
- ECO execution capability
- supplier readiness for production ramp capability
- ability to align production forecasts with CM capacity
- ability to align production forecasts with distributor capacity
- long-term supply visibility management capability
- short-term demand swings management capability
- component shortage prevention capability
- excess inventory prevention capability
- supply chain risk identification capability
- supply chain risk mitigation capability
- single-source component risk management capability
- long lead-time parts risk management capability
- geopolitical exposure risk management capability
- component obsolescence risk management capability
- proactive contingency planning capability
Desired Qualifications
- deep expertise across the full electronics manufacturing stack
- bare board fabrication knowledge
- SMT assembly knowledge
- functional test knowledge
- final shipment knowledge
- product quality knowledge
- delivery performance knowledge
- strategic sourcing skills across a complex global supply base
- hands-on experience structuring contracts
- dual-source strategies management capability
- navigating constrained commodity markets capability
- direct visibility into how supply chain decisions shape product launch timelines
- direct visibility into how supply chain decisions shape cost structure
- direct visibility into how supply chain decisions shape customer outcomes
- ability to make a measurable impact on the business from day one
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