Senior Sourcing Commodity Manager, Imaging Solutions - Make great designs for intelligent audio and video solutions possible
Are you ready to join an international sourcing team who delivers solutions for developing our innovative headsets and video conference tools?
Challenge your technical skills at GN in a commercial perspective and become part of developing our products already from the very early development phases of our intelligent audio and video solutions.
In this role, you will work with brand new innovative products, never seen before. Here your leadership skills will be essential to collaborate closely with skilled video conference designers from R&D and supplier teams to ensure optimal video conference design for cost versus product delivering right experiences to customers - a key factor for continuous growth within GN.
Through its Jabra brand, GN Audio works to lead major technology shifts with intelligent audio and video solutions - and we are always working on new projects that push the limits of what our products can do.
At our Collaboration site in Cupertino, you will join the Global Sourcing team within Global Operations. Together with colleagues, you will support our R&D and Product Design teams building winning video solutions to make the development process for brand new products affordable - from concept to product delivery.
You will join an international team based in US, Denmark and China where you will collaborate with suppliers in US, China, Taiwan, Japan and Germany.
Ensure the right video design solutions for innovative audio and video products
Through focus on commercials (TCO), technologies and quality related aspects, your mission will be to deliver a strong supply base that contributes to our business with best-in-class performance. With that, we expect that you will
challenge, provide ideas and take active part of developing our sourcing processes.
Functioning as the link between R&D, Product Design and our supplier teams, you will challenge video/camera designers in product development on their choice of designs to ensure cost effective manufacturing processes and to achieve ambitious product cost targets.
More specifically, you will:
Develop supply base strategic direction and drive its implementation
Drive the negotiation and contract management process
Manage supplier cost roadmaps to meet GN Audios increasing product performance challenges
Collaborate with video designers and supplier teams to deliver cost optimized solutions
Develop total cost and capacity optimized inbound supply chain for trusted and flexible supply
Perform risk mitigation and contingency planning
Education and Experience;
Have a commercial degree or a degree in electrical engineering combined with 10+ years of experience
Bring solid experience from sourcing video solutions in consumer electronics
Are curious about how much things cost and like to break things apart to see the steps and like to understand what makes a video solution cost the way it does
Have the flexibility to travel 30-40 days a year to colleagues and suppliers
Will excel in this position when you bring leadership skills into the role to be a great communicator who enjoys collaborating with colleagues and partners from different cultures
Have hands-on negotiation experience and project management skills
Fluently read, speak, and write English
Equal Opportunity Employer
GN Audio/Jabra makes life sound better by developing intelligent sound solutions that transform lives through the power of sound, enabling you to hear more, do more & be more than you ever thought possible. Our integrated headset and communications solutions assist professionals in all types of businesses in being more productive. Our wireless headsets and earbuds are designed to fit any lifestyle - from sports enthusiasts to commuters and office workers. Jabra is part of the GN group, which operates in more than 90 countries across the world. Founded in 1869, GN group today has more than 6,000 employees. GN Audio an EEO Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, military service, sexual orientation, genetic information, or gender identity.
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