Global Sourcing Manager - EE Sourcing Semiconductors

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other.
As part of the Sonos team, youll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.

The Global Sourcing Manager, Electronics, will be a member of the Electronics Sourcing Team with responsibility to provide engineering research and technical evaluation of electronic components and electronic sub-systems as well as commodity base management consisting of one or more component categories.
The successful candidate has experience in an electrical engineering design discipline and has worked directly with electronic component suppliers, distributors and manufacturers representatives.

The position will be based in the US, preferably in Boston or Santa Barbara or remote with some travel to Santa Barbara and Boston.

• What You'll Do:
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• Manage sourcing activities and supplier relationships.
Develop and execute, with input and consensus of all internal stakeholders, sourcing strategies that continuously achieves a competitive advantage for Sonos.

• Research and evaluate electronic components and sub-systems based on product development, marketing and long-range product roadmap requirements.

• Partner with Sonos Product Design and Engineering teams to review design specs and recommend sources that can meet Sonos volume, quality, flexibility, and cost requirements.
Drive technical decisions that are aligned to strategic sourcing goals.

• Schedule and lead supplier meetings to review commercial terms and technical roadmaps and formulate a strategy to convey product and market information back to the electronics sourcing and development organizations.

• Analyze electronic components and sub-systems to create "should cost" models that enable COGS (Cost of Good Sold) calculations early in the development cycle.

• For assigned component categories, continuously research and monitor the industry and report on significant activities in the areas of new technologies, supplier capacity and R&D investments, mergers and acquisitions, and competitors activities.

• Support bi-annual supplier performance reviews, factory audits and supplier risk assessments.

• Review production product designs and execute value engineering activities to achieve product cost reductions, reduce BOM risk and enable long-term manufacturability by proactively identifying and recommending additional component sources.

• Provide support to all functions of the electronics sourcing organization to enable a successful NPI process and the continuous production of all mature products.

• Price, capacity, and contract negotiations.

• Lead sourcing process that includes a cross functional team of Product Development, Engineering, Quality, and Sourcing members

• What You'll Need
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• 8+ years of combined working experience in Engineering Design and Electronics Sourcing domain, preferably working within a high-volume consumer electronics industry.

• The demonstrated capability to apply analytical techniques to problem solving.

• Results oriented and strategic thinker, with an ability to influence others.

• Excellent English communication and presentation skills.

• Ability to effectively work in a multi-cultural global business environment.

• Ability to balance business and technical objectives in making sound business decisions.

• Bachelor's degree in business management, supply chain, procurement, engineering or a related field from an accredited university and be willing and able to travel within the US as well as internationally up to 25% of the time.

• Natural leadership competencies; influences others through style, personality and subject matter expertise rather than organizational design.

location3 LocationsSonos is a sound experience company.
We connect millions of listeners all around the world to the content they want, where and how they want it.
Since inventing multiroom wireless audio in 2005, we have continuously innovated the listening experience, designing hardware and software that celebrates sound, empowers our customers, and brings the home to life.
Our team is made up of passionate players united by a culture of respect, transparency, collaboration, and ownership who want to inspire the world to listen better.

In response to the global pandemic, we have continued to prioritize the health, safety and wellness of our employees around the world.
Our offices remain closed with a few exceptions, and while we look forward to reopening them when conditions allow, we have always been focused on impact, not location, and the pandemic has taught us that even more roles can be performed remotely than wed previously imagined.
Additionally, having been distributed from the start, weve long since been accustomed to having close teammates in entirely different locations and time zones.
Whether our people choose to return to offices or not (and many wont), we remind ourselves that our culture is not our offices, its us.
Its the way we work together to create amazing products and services, and the way we find connection with one another.
Learn more about how Sonos is approaching the new era of working here:

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and Australia, and new hires in both countries will be required to provide proof of current full Covid vaccination on or before their first day of employment.
In Europe and Asia Pacific, we are following national and local Covid guidelines as outlined in the policy.