Strategic Sourcing Manager, Memory Storage & CPUs

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for fiber and optical interconnect components supporting high-bandwidth AI systems and infrastructure.
• Own sourcing across fiber cable assemblies, optical harnesses, fiber shuffles, optical backplane assemblies, passive optical assemblies, fiber-array units, fiber-to-chip interfaces, detachable connectors, optical routing, and related packaging, assembly, and testing services.
• Analyze optical supply chains, including raw materials, fiber and cable manufacturing, connector ecosystems, component manufacturing, assembly and test capacity, and sub-tier dependencies.
• Identify, evaluate, qualify, and manage suppliers across the fiber and optical interconnect ecosystem.
• Lead RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs; define evaluation criteria; coordinate technical and commercial assessments; and recommend sourcing decisions.
• Partner with engineering teams to assess optical performance, insertion loss, return loss, signal integrity, bandwidth, power, reliability, thermal performance, mechanical robustness, manufacturability, and production readiness.
• Translate technology roadmaps and system requirements into sourcing strategies, supplier-development plans, and capacity requirements.
• Negotiate agreements covering pricing, engineering support, tooling, manufacturing and test capacity, lead times, quality, intellectual property, warranties, service levels, and long-term supply commitments.
• Develop cost models and pricing frameworks; drive cost reduction through should-cost analysis, open-book pricing, benchmarking, volume agreements, value engineering, supplier competition, and multiyear roadmaps.
• Support supplier qualification, design reviews, component selection, validation, pilot builds, system bring-up, production readiness, and volume ramp.
• Establish multisource and supply-continuity strategies addressing capacity constraints, sub-tier dependencies, supplier concentration, geopolitical exposure, technology transitions, and lifecycle risks.
• Secure supplier capacity and visibility into raw materials, equipment, assembly, testing, yield, and sub-tier constraints.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships through executive engagement, business reviews, scorecards, escalations, and corrective action plans.
• Collaborate with finance, legal, security, quality, operations, and program management teams.
• Develop processes and reporting for category strategy, supplier performance, pricing, capacity planning, component availability, supply risk, and ERP/MRP/PLM workflows.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, supplier management, or supply-chain leadership within optical communications, fiber optics, high-speed interconnects, semiconductors, networking hardware, data-center infrastructure, or advanced hardware manufacturing.
• Experience sourcing fiber-optic components, optical cable assemblies, fiber connectivity, passive optical assemblies, optical packaging and assembly services, or similar high-volume hardware-integration categories.
• Strong familiarity with fiber and optical interconnect supply chains, including cable assemblies, harnesses, fiber shuffles, backplanes, FAUs, fiber-to-chip interfaces, optical packaging, electronics, assembly, and testing.
• Experience evaluating optical and interconnect suppliers against technical, quality, reliability, manufacturability, and production-readiness requirements.
• Understanding of scaling high-speed optical connectivity in AI, hyperscale data-center, or high-performance computing environments.
• Track record of leading competitive sourcing processes, negotiating complex commercial agreements, and building supplier partnerships.
• Expertise in should-cost modeling, open-book pricing, total cost of ownership, supplier cost structures, and commercial optimization.
• Experience securing supplier capacity and managing constraints across complex, multi-tier global supply chains.
• Experience supporting supplier qualification, product development, manufacturing readiness, program bring-up, production ramp, and supplier performance management.
• Technical credibility to collaborate with optical, electrical, signal-integrity, systems, manufacturing, and reliability engineers.
• Strong analytical judgment balancing cost, performance, supply continuity, quality, capacity, and delivery.
• Experience working with global suppliers and improving supply resilience and production capacity.