Senior Manager of Strategic Sourcing - Electronics & Contract Mfg

Dexcom • Remote California, CA

7d • $156,400 - $260,600 • Remote

About The Position

Dexcom’s Senior Manager of Strategic Sourcing will lead the Electronics and Contract Manufacturing sourcing organization within the Direct Materials Sourcing team. The role is accountable for category strategy, supplier capacity and continuity, commercial performance, lifecycle and obsolescence management, component-level risk, contract strategy, cost productivity, and supplier readiness across current and future product platforms. The position connects semiconductor and component manufacturers, authorized channels, Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers, and contract manufacturers to an integrated supply strategy aligned with product roadmaps, commercial demand, and long-range growth scenarios.

The portfolio covers contract manufacturing and electronics manufacturing services; PCBAs and electronic assemblies; integrated circuits and active components; batteries, printed circuit boards, passives, crystals and oscillators, temperature sensors, cables, and discrete electronic components; Receiver electronic components and finished goods; and supporting sub-tier suppliers, manufacturing sites, raw materials, and logistics nodes. The role leads and develops category managers and works across technical, operational, financial, and executive functions to establish resilient supply, competitive cost, supplier readiness, and effective lifecycle management.

The role typically requires a bachelor’s degree and 13 or more years of industry experience, including 5–8 years of previous people-management experience. Travel is required 15–25%. The workplace is remote from a home office; employees living within commuting distance of a Dexcom site may have a hybrid working environment available.

Requirements

• Proven people-leadership experience managing strategic sourcing or category management teams supporting electronics, PCBAs, semiconductors, and contract manufacturing in a complex, regulated manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing semiconductor and electronic-component supply chains, including foundry, assembly/test, manufacturers, authorized distribution, and critical sub-tier relationships.
• Demonstrated leadership of global EMS/CM relationships covering PCBA, SMT, testing, automation, component procurement, manufacturing capacity, qualification, production ramp, and ongoing performance.
• Ability to evaluate fab and assembly/test capacity, allocation, lead-time, lifecycle, raw-material, and obsolescence exposure and translate constraints into sourcing, inventory, capacity, and commercial strategies.
• Experience negotiating supply assurance, capacity reservations, allocation mechanisms, volume commitments, pricing structures, productivity obligations, and long-term agreements for constrained electronic components and manufacturing services.
• Ability to connect contract-manufacturer material planning and production constraints to upstream component supply and downstream demand.
• Experience managing Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 supplier relationships across commercial performance, capacity, quality, technology, continuity, lifecycle, and risk.
• Ability to translate product roadmaps, BOM/AML data, demand scenarios, LRP assumptions, engineering requirements, inventory positions, and supply-market intelligence into executable sourcing and capacity strategies.
• Proven record of delivering cost productivity, supply continuity, supplier transitions, NPI readiness, lifecycle/EOL execution, and business continuity in a matrix organization.
• Strong negotiation, contracting, supplier relationship management, change-management, and executive stakeholder influence skills.
• Ability to develop quantitative and qualitative business cases, communicate tradeoffs, secure leadership alignment, and maintain durable decision and action records.
• Credible, direct, and knowledgeable leadership style, with ability to serve as a trusted business advisor to technical, operational, financial, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong financial analysis, market analysis, strategic planning, program management, and structured problem-solving capabilities.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, with ability to analyze complex BOM, forecast, capacity, inventory, cost, and supplier-performance data and communicate insights clearly to executives.
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and 13 or more years of industry experience.
• Requires 5–8 years of previous people-management experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in medical device, life sciences, automotive, aerospace, or another highly regulated manufacturing industry.
• Experience supporting high-volume, global manufacturing networks and product platforms through launch, scale, redesign, transfer, ramp-down, and end-of-life.
• Experience with global EMS providers, semiconductor manufacturers, PCB/PCBA suppliers, battery and electronic-component manufacturers, and authorized distributors.
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, value engineering, should-cost, total cost of ownership, supplier development, and structured cost-productivity methods.
• Experience supporting NPI, design transfers, component qualifications, supplier change controls, product lifecycle and obsolescence management, and global supply-network transitions.
• Practical knowledge of ERP/eProcurement, spend analytics, supplier performance, risk intelligence, BOM/AML management, and contract lifecycle management systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and coach category managers responsible for contract manufacturing, PCBA, integrated circuits, batteries, PCBs, passives, crystals, temperature sensors, Receiver electronics, and related finished goods.
• Develop and execute short- and long-term category strategies aligned with technology roadmaps, supplier capability, qualified capacity, cost, quality, risk, geographic footprint, lifecycle requirements, and business plans.
• Own executive supplier relationships and commercial strategy across EMS partners, semiconductor and component manufacturers, authorized channels, Tier 1 suppliers, and critical sub-tier suppliers.
• Lead supplier selection, RFIs/RFQs, negotiations, contracting, cost improvement, capacity assurance and reservations, allocation models, demand and capacity reconciliation, recovery planning, and business continuity plans.
• Build sourcing strategies across the electronics value chain, including semiconductor foundry and assembly/test dependencies, batteries, PCB fabrication, component manufacturing and distribution, sub-tier suppliers, PCBA, final assembly, test, and critical raw materials.
• Own BOM-level electronics supply-risk management, maintaining visibility into supplier, part, manufacturing-site, sub-tier, raw-material, and common-node dependencies.
• Establish a fact-based supplier-readiness view covering BOM/AML status, awards, purchase orders, lead times, inventory coverage, capacity, qualification, contracts, alternate sources, and recovery actions.
• Validate supplier capacity claims against demonstrated output, yield, OEE, equipment, labor, materials, lead times, expansion plans, and recovery assumptions.
• Lead electronics sourcing through product transitions and lifecycle events, including G7-to-G8 migration, supplier ramp-up and ramp-down, last-time buys, inventory exposure, shelf life, obsolescence, alternate-source qualification, and end-of-life execution.
• Serve as the accountable commercial integrator across Planning, R&D, Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supplier Quality, Operations, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, and NPI.
• Partner with technical and operational teams to improve design-for-supply, component selection, manufacturability, supplier readiness, validation planning, launch execution, and lifecycle continuity.
• Establish market-intelligence and risk-management mechanisms for lead times, allocations, PCN/EOL notices, obsolescence, counterfeit risk, manufacturing constraints, geopolitical exposure, tariffs, single-source dependencies, and raw-material constraints.
• Translate supplier and component risks into mitigation plans covering safety stock, protected inventory, alternate qualification, capacity protection, contractual safeguards, and executive escalation.
• Drive a repeatable cost-productivity pipeline using should-cost, clean-sheet, open-book, value engineering, total cost of ownership, alternate sourcing, conversion-cost improvement, process productivity, packaging/logistics, and supply-base leverage.
• Quantify sourcing opportunities and exposures, including financial impact, investment, timing, return, implementation risk, inventory liability, and total-cost tradeoffs.
• Structure commercial agreements covering supply assurance, capacity, allocation, inventory, safety stock, excess and obsolete material, volume commitments, pricing, productivity, change control, transition support, and business continuity.
• Distinguish forecasts and planning assumptions from approved commercial commitments and ensure supplier decisions, obligations, and protections are documented and enforceable.
• Create fact-based executive recommendations that distinguish confirmed facts, assumptions, evidence gaps, decisions, tradeoffs, financial exposure, supply risk, ownership, and execution milestones.
• Position Strategic Sourcing as a competitive advantage through technology access, supplier innovation, resilient supply, competitive product cost, disciplined governance, and speed.
• Set team priorities, measurable objectives, ownership, operating cadence, and escalation expectations.
• Coach category managers in strategy development, electronics value-chain knowledge, negotiations, contracting, executive communication, supplier governance, and cross-functional influence.
• Build category-specific capability through development plans, standard work, sourcing playbooks, succession planning, and knowledge transfer.
• Develop category managers able to lead complex supplier negotiations, executive reviews, risk decisions, and cross-functional sourcing strategies independently.
• Create a high-performance, collaborative environment in which issues are escalated early, commitments are followed through, and decisions rely on a trusted single source of truth.

Benefits

• A full and comprehensive benefits program.
• Growth opportunities on a global scale.
• Access to career development through in-house learning programs and/or qualified tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior