Sr Staff, NPI Sourcing Manager
About The Position
The Engineering Services & NRE role establishes and manages the commercial, operational, and strategic framework for engineering services and R&D spending across the product development portfolio. It transforms how the company decides, funds, sources, governs, and leverages engineering capability across its product portfolio. The role ensures that engineering NRE (Non-Recurring Engineering) is clearly defined, contracted, tracked, sourced, and delivered efficiently, while continually improving how engineering services are planned, sourced, and delivered. The position is intended to improve visibility and control of NRE and engineering-services spending, align expectations for cost, scope, resources, and delivery, reduce the time needed to source and onboard engineering partners, create repeatable processes, aggregate requirements for supplier leverage, and establish the right balance of internal engineering capability and external partners. The role manages development agreements and NRE governance, supports engineering-services and R&D supplier onboarding, develops the engineering-services strategy, and leads NPI sourcing and supplier risk management for assigned projects. It works across Engineering, Procurement, Finance, Legal, Quality, Operations, and Program Management to support sourcing readiness, product launches, and production requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of related experience, or equivalent experiences.
- Strong negotiation skills and ability to negotiate the best deal for Illumina and influence upward.
- Proven ability to influence senior and executive stakeholders without direct organizational authority.
- Experience with NPI, product development, design-to-cost, value engineering, and supplier development.
Nice To Haves
- Strategic thinking, including anticipating and developing business opportunities and priorities while executing concrete business objectives.
- Experience translating complex technical and business requirements into scalable strategies, processes, and measurable business outcomes.
- Customer focus, responsiveness, action orientation, and a positive, professional outlook.
- Strong analytical skills, including extracting data from varied sources, drawing conclusions and insights, and translating them into action.
- Experience in regulated, highly technical, or complex product development environments.
- Business acumen and demonstrated ability to understand financial and legal terms.
- Ability to manage pressure, multiple tasks, deadlines, and rapidly changing priorities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills to partner, collaborate, and build relationships.
- Experience establishing portfolio-level governance and executive reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to build consensus and drive organizational change across functional boundaries.
- Familiarity with ERP and procurement systems.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Project, Word, Excel, Outlook, and Access.
Responsibilities
- Define and manage assigned development agreements.
- Establish clear commercial, technical, and deliverable expectations with engineering partners.
- Ensure agreements support project requirements, timelines, and cost objectives.
- Partner with Engineering, Procurement, Finance, Legal, and Program teams as needed.
- Establish and maintain a consistent approach to NRE definition, budgeting, approval, and tracking across projects.
- Identify cost, schedule, and risk issues early and drive resolution with project teams.
- Provide stakeholders with clear visibility into engineering-services spending and status.
- Support sourcing and onboarding requirements for engineering-services and R&D providers.
- Establish standard processes for supplier selection, engagement, onboarding, and performance management.
- Ensure new suppliers can be integrated efficiently into project teams and development processes, including transition to mass production when applicable.
- Support continuous improvement across the engineering-services lifecycle: plan, source, deliver, measure, and improve.
- Identify recurring inefficiencies, handoff issues, and cost drivers.
- Develop the overall Engineering Services strategy by defining business needs and the appropriate mix of internal capabilities, strategic partners, and external engineering providers.
- Develop a scalable supplier and capability strategy as project needs evolve.
- Identify opportunities to consolidate spending, leverage common capabilities, and improve supplier performance.
- Translate business and engineering needs into a longer-term services strategy.
- Lead sourcing activities and supplier risk management for assigned projects.
- Partner with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Program Management to ensure sourcing readiness and successful product launches.
- Drive RFQ/RFP processes, supplier negotiations, cost analysis, and applicable agreements for new components and materials.
- Execute sourcing strategies aligned with project timelines, cost targets, quality requirements, and supply-chain objectives.
- Manage supplier onboarding, qualification, and capacity planning to support NPI ramp-up and production requirements.
- Identify opportunities for cost reduction, design optimization, and value engineering during product development.
- Track supplier performance, resolve sourcing-related issues, and mitigate supply, capacity, and launch risks.
Benefits
- Variable cash program (bonus or commission) eligibility for all employees.
- Equity may be included for eligible roles.
- Access to genomics sequencing.
- Family planning benefits.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Retirement benefits.
- Paid time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
