Sr. Manager, Installation Supplier Development & Productivity

Symbotic

1d•$135,000 - $185,900•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Manager of Installation Supplier Development & Productivity is responsible for defining, scaling, and governing the installation supplier network supporting large-scale automation and construction projects. This role owns the enterprise strategy for installer development, productivity, and commercial execution, ensuring predictable cost, schedule, safety, and quality outcomes across the project portfolio. This role also serves as the installation-facing commercialization lead for new technology introductions (NPI), ensuring new systems and process changes are installable at scale with validated productivity, cost, and execution assumptions. Our global Sourcing and Procurement team develops innovative category management strategies in collaboration with the business. The team focuses on strategic third-party partner agreements and helps support supplier relationship management, commercial, and financial pricing models for overall supplier performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Supply Chain, Business, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 10 years of experience in supplier development, installation or construction operations, productivity engineering, strategic sourcing, or NPI execution within industrial or automation environments.
Demonstrated experience leading new technology rollouts or major process changes in execution-heavy settings.
Deep understanding of installation labor models, productivity drivers, and cost structures.
Proven ability to translate field execution data into commercial and financial models and influence senior stakeholders.
Up to 20% of travel may be required.
Employees must have a valid driver’s license and the ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations.
The employee is responsible for owning a credit card and managing expenses personally to be reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis.

Responsibilities

Define and lead the strategy for installation supplier development, including supplier qualification, capability standards, and geographic coverage aligned to project demand and technology roadmap.
Establish and govern standardized onboarding, performance management, and productivity frameworks across installation suppliers and trades.
Set productivity baselines and learning-curve expectations by trade, scope, and technology; drive continuous improvement across the supplier network.
Partner with Construction leadership to identify systemic productivity losses, downtime drivers, and execution risks, particularly during early deployments of new technologies.
Lead executive-level supplier performance reviews (QBRs / PIRs), incorporating execution results, NPI learnings, and forward-looking improvement commitments.
Own installer productivity assumptions and labor models, ensuring they are grounded in validated field data.
Govern installer cost models and translate technology or process changes into quantified cost and productivity impacts that inform pricing and supplier commitments.
Serve as a senior partner to Strategic Sourcing during RFQs and negotiations, validating assumptions and securing performance-based commercial terms.
Partner with Finance to ensure installer cost models reflect NPI risk, execution variability, and margin expectations.
Act as the installation-facing owner for new technology introductions and value-add process changes.
Partner with Engineering, Product, and Construction to ensure new technologies are clearly scoped, installable at scale, and supported by appropriate tooling, training, and documentation.
Lead install-readiness assessments and support pilot and first-of-kind deployments, converting field learnings into standardized installation approaches.
Serve as the primary interface between installation suppliers and internal teams on productivity, performance, cost, and technology deployment topics.
Influence cross-functional alignment through data-driven insights and execution-backed recommendations.