Global Commodity Manager – Interconnects and Cables

NVIDIA•Us, CA

About The Position

NVIDIA is seeking a Global Commodity Manager to join its Global Commodity Management Group. This role focuses on the strategic sourcing and commodity management of Interconnects technologies within the Boards and Systems Supply Chain Group. The position involves developing and directing global sourcing and commodity strategies to deliver significant value through improved sourcing, supply assurance, component quality, and gross margin enhancements. The Global Commodity Manager plays a crucial part in NVIDIA's product development, responsible for formulating and executing connector and cable commodity sourcing strategies, and building strong relationships with internal cross-functional teams.

Requirements

BS in Business, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
Minimum of 8+ years' experience in global commodity management and proven track record in managing connector, cable, and optics Supply Base.
Deep understanding of interconnector and cable technologies, market, manufacturing process, cost drivers and supply landscape.
Ability to be innovative with issues related to strategic sourcing, supplier relations, and supplier performance measurement systems.
Strong analytical skills such as cost modeling, quotation analysis, supplier selection, and supply/demand analysis.
Ability to incorporate AI tools to enhance supply chain and sourcing analysis, data integrity, and decision making.
Excellent negotiation and leadership skills in supplier management and contract negotiation.
Excellent communication and influencing skills dealing with supply base executives.
High degree of integrity, initiative, and attention to detail in a collaborative environment.

Nice To Haves

MBA Preferred.
Technical experience to compliment strong program management skills is preferred.

Responsibilities

Build cross-functional alignment with Hardware, Electrical, and Mechanical engineering to identify commodity sourcing strategies to enable NVIDIA business segment requirements for Boards and System Supply Chain.
Develop and manage supplier relationships and conduct supplier business reviews that improve suppliers value, performance, and account investments through aligned roadmaps.
Negotiate Master Service Agreements, cost reduction strategies, and maintain lead-time, cost systems, and split of business decisions.
Deliver a supplier risk management system, BOM risk reduction solutions, materials risk mitigation strategies, and maintaining data integrity to ensure supply resiliency.
Rationalize and reduce the number of components and suppliers to capture synergies and reduce risk due to demand fluctuation.
Enable early supplier involvement to bring innovation from the industry to deliver innovation on SOL (Speed of Light) project schedules.
Concentrate effort in NPI to achieve industry leading time-to-market, establishing supplier selection criteria, alternative suppliers, qualify new suppliers, own the RFQ process, and drive supplier selection in partnership with Engineering.
Provide complex capacity planning to support high volume ramp during NPI stages, informing Engineering and Management of any supply risks to Pre-release schedules, while also developing and enabling production and scale strategies for sustaining product and commodity growth to drive cost, lead time, continuity of supply, and risk mitigation leadership.