Tesla Looking For Global Supply Manager – Discretes at Palo Alto, CA

What to Expect

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Global Supply Manager to support our development teams and contract manufacturing partners in the sourcing of Direct Supply Chain components and parts. This person will be a member of our Supply Chain Organization supporting the development, implementation, and management of strategies to provide Tesla with optimal supply assurance, pricing, flexibility, quality, and delivery performance. The Global Supply Manager builds and leverages strong working relationships with our engineering teams and key suppliers to ensure cost, quality, and delivery targets are met. Working towards good supplier relationships and total costs of ownership to achieve maximum advantage for Tesla and our customers. Tesla is a fast moving, dynamic environment where flexibility and adaptability are key attributes needed for success. The successful candidate will be a self-starter; motivated with expert overall sourcing expertise.

This role will report to our Senior Supply Chain Group Manager and in parallel be an active sourcing resource supporting our various Engineering groups within Tesla.

What You’ll Do

• Owner of RFx’s – ensuring all commercial terms are agreed and documented. Ensures Non-Disclosure Agreements, General Terms & Conditions, Piece Price Agreements, and other related contracts are negotiated and appropriately before business is initiated.
• Drive piece price and tooling negotiation process to ensure that Tesla’s commodity pricing met Best-In-Class expectations, while meeting Supplier Industrialization standards of Best-In-Class quality, in addition to driving continual cost reduction and avoidance initiatives through ad-hoc price negotiations.
• Address all areas of category management including category business plans, market conditions, technology roadmaps, cost modeling, and sourcing strategies.
• Monitor global industry trends, track technology roadmaps, and actively partner with the Design teams to identify/mitigate supply and demand challenges.
• Manage respective supplier relationships and performance, including but not limited to dispute resolution, supplier scorecards, and periodic business reviews.
• Participate in design reviews, change control meetings, and other technical discussions with Engineering partners
• Participate in Design for Manufacturability reviews with Engineering partners and prospective suppliers, and drive decisions from a cost perspective
• Ability to understand technical drawings and specifications as well as basic knowledge of manufacturing process controls and quality assurance for their commodity space
• Comfortable communicating with technical stakeholders both internally and externally
• Lead cross-functional teams to manage project timelines including developing and maintaining action trackers, Gantt charts, and other program management tools related to on-time delivery of supplier parts against Program timing
• Communicate key supply, cost, and/or quality issues with management teams. Develop corrective action plans to mitigate identified risks.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with cross-functional teams and influence timely decisions with key stakeholders to support our mission

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in supply chain management, or commodity management associated to semiconductors, integrated circuits, passives and discretes.
• Technical & commercial understanding of tooling and manufacturing processes of semiconductors, integrated circuits, passives and discretes.
• Experience with engineering concepts related to the commodity and ability to generate bottom-up should costs based on the understanding of manufacturing process.
• Proficient knowledge of technical requirements & design of the product and be able to influence cross functional partners with detailed analysis that supports optimized pricing and product sourcing decisions.
• Excellent negotiator
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
• Analytical with ability to build out Should-Cost models and cost forecasts
• Experience with mechanical and/or electrical engineering concepts related to the commodity and ability to generate bottom-up should costs based on the understanding of manufacturing process
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Engineering or Chemistry and/or equivalent experience or evidence of exceptional ability. Master’s degree in related areas, a plus.

Passionate about Tesla’s mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy