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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, you’ll 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.

Role Summary

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, you’ll 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.

Global Commodity Managers - Electro Mechanical, are responsible for commercial relationships with suppliers for cost negotiations, continuity of supply, driving sourcing strategy, risk mitigation and diversification of supply chain maps. GCMs will work closely with engineering, operations, materials, quality as well as design team to execute product launch to EOL. Candidates in this role must be interested in market dynamics, innovative technology so can lead strategies together with internal and external stakeholders.

What You'll Do:

• Manage supplier relationships and commercial activities such as business reviews, RFQs, and roadmap discussions

• Develop thorough commodity and business strategies. Establish commodity strategic direction by working with our technical teams, understanding the technical and the necessary business requirements that allow for a competitive advantage and position us for profitable growth. This requires a deep understanding of the supply base, technical needs and cost structures.

• Build robust supply chains based on requirements and needs at the most basic levels of our supply chain to ensure that we have a complete and thorough understanding of the Sonos supply chain

• Ensure continuity of supply. Set up long-term/ short-term capacity planning with supplier, partner with Material team to schedule supply to meet Sonos’s component demand

• Collaborate with Product design and Engineering teams to review initial specifications of the parts/modules recommend sources to influence technical decisions in early phase of the program

• Be able to manage multiple projects in parallel

• Evaluate technical and business risks, analyze based on the data and create mitigation plans/alternatives

• Need to support management of development builds, materials, and any risk to execute successful ramp in NPI stage

• Partner with the Advanced technology and Engineering team to evaluate and develop new technologies using new materials, processes, and features.

• Collaborate with cross functional teams - Engineering, Quality, Material, Advanced technology, Finance.

What You'll Need

Basic Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree

• 5+ years work experience in sourcing related field

• Top-notch negotiation skills

• Ability to influence cross functional teams

• Demonstrated ability to apply analytical techniques to problem solving

• Strategic thinker and result oriented

• Natural leadership competencies; influences others through style and subject matter expertise

• An ability to balance business and technical objectives in decision making

• Excellent English communication/presentation skills

• Ability to effectively work in multicultural global business environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA Preferred

• Bachelor degrees in mechanical engineering/electrical engineering/supply chain management

• Travel within China domestic as well as internationally up to 20% of the time

• Experience in consumer electronics is a plus

• Experience in systems - Tableau, G suite, Arena, MRP, SAP

  Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience.

  Sonos 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.

Having been distributed from the start, we’ve long since been accustomed to having close teammates in entirely different locations and time zones. We ground ourselves in these four principles while working as distributed teams:

Role Location: Some roles require an office while others may be done remotely. Leaders make this decision based on business rationale, role requirements and team needs.

Travel: Some work is better done in person. Teams should meet together in person at critical moments to move work forward.

Meeting Norms: We use our time to drive OKRs and run the business. We normalize asynchronous collaboration and focused work. We give feedback and help each other improve when norms are not followed.

Flexibility: Flexibility done well fuels impact, not hinders it. Teams flex to support one another and employees flex to deliver for the team or business. We flex both ways to drive impact.

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