Senior Manager, Supply Chain Engineering

Senior Manager, Supply Chain Engineering

Job Description

Manages a team of engineers responsible for evaluating and qualifying supplier components at varying degrees of complexity and integration level. Leads supplier development initiatives, collaborating with design and procurement teams to enhance supplier capabilities and ensure seamless integration of components into product development. Ensures supplier readiness for New Product Introduction, monitoring team activities that support components and supplier processes are validated and production-ready before full-scale launch. Develops and enforces robust processes for managing non-conforming components, including quarantine, rework, and disposition strategies. Provides technical leadership on design changes, process optimizations, and supplier transitions, mitigating risk and ensuring minimal impact on production and quality.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Select and Qualify Components:

• Manages a team of engineers responsible for evaluating and qualifying supplier components at varying degrees of complexity and integration level, ensuring alignment with technical specifications, reliability standards, and lifecycle requirements.
• Provides technical and strategic direction on complex component reliability assessments, leveraging supplier data, industry standards, and accelerated life testing methodologies to drive informed decision-making.
• Partners with Supplier Quality, Supply Chain Security, and Test Engineering teams to establish robust qualification criteria, ensuring components meet product performance, safety, and manufacturability standards.
• Drives supplier-driven quality and process improvement initiatives, reviewing manufacturing processes, material traceability, and process controls to enhance overall component consistency and reliability.

Supplier Engagement:

• Manages supplier relationships, ensuring alignment on technical specifications, quality expectations, and production commitments to support business objectives.
• Manages supplier audit processes, assessing production capabilities, process controls, and adherence to quality and security management systems, driving improvements where needed.
• Leads supplier development initiatives, collaborating with design and procurement teams to enhance supplier capabilities and ensure seamless integration of components into product development.
• Executes strategies to improve supplier efficiency, yield, and overall product quality through continuous collaboration and performance monitoring.

New Product Introduction:

• Ensures supplier readiness for New Product Introduction (NPI), monitoring team activities that support components and supplier processes are validated and production-ready before full-scale launch.
• Leads supplier coordination efforts, aligning production plans with project timelines, demand forecasts, and manufacturability requirements.
• Monitors pilot production validation efforts, ensuring that supplier manufacturing processes meet established quality, cost, and performance expectations.

Failure Analysis:

• Oversees the resolution of supplier-related quality excursions and failures, ensuring timely and effective corrective/preventive actions (RCA, CAPA).
• Leads failure analysis investigations on supplier components, utilizing advanced analytical techniques (e.g., X-ray, scanning electron microscopy [SEM], electrical testing) to determine failure modes and prevent recurrence.
• Defines and monitors key supplier quality metrics, including yield, defect rates, and overall performance, implementing data-driven continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develops and enforces robust processes for managing non-conforming components, including quarantine, rework, and disposition strategies.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Serves as the primary interface between internal stakeholders, facilitating alignment with Design, Operations, Quality, and Procurement teams.
• Drives cross-functional initiatives to enhance product quality, reduce costs, and improve supply chain performance, ensuring business objectives are met.
• Provides technical leadership on design changes, process optimizations, and supplier transitions, mitigating risk and ensuring minimal impact on production and quality.
• Develops and mentors a high-performing engineering team, fostering technical expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership capabilities to support long-term business success.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable are monitored and met. Provides direction to teams on project work, setting priorities, and aligning with business needs. Guides teams on adjusting plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• Drives cross-functional partnerships to align on expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams. Coaches team members to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success. Promotes inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.

Problem Solving:

• Provides direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions. Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the team to identify potential solutions.

Continuous Learning:

• Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning. Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skill improvements. Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise in new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.

Continuous Improvement:

• Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight. Guides team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages feedback for continued improvement.

Performance and Development:

• Drives performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Discusses development goals with team members, shares opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individual goals are aligned with broader organizational goals. Develops and manages talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 - $264,100 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - M3

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Key skills/competency

• Supply Chain Engineering
• Supplier Qualification
• New Product Introduction (NPI)
• Failure Analysis
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Process Optimization
• Risk Mitigation
• Team Leadership
• Project Management
• Continuous Improvement