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Lead Global Supply Chain Manager

Remote San Francisco, CA
USD 190k - 235k
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Who We Are

Humane is a team of proven industry experts who have invented, built, and shipped category-defining hardware and software products to billions of people across the globe. We're known for building the audacious, ambitious, and the impossible, and we're doing it again. Our vision for the next shift between humans and computing requires innovation across multiple emerging technologies in hardware and software, from devices to cloud services.

About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Global Supply Chain Manager with expertise in managing Contract Manufacturing (CM) and Joint Development Manufacturing (JDM) partners. This role is central to building and optimizing manufacturing relationships while ensuring alignment with business strategies. Reporting to the Head of Global Supply Chain, you will be responsible for supplier management, contract negotiations, cost optimization, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure the successful delivery of our products.

What You Might Do

  • Manage the supply chain process end-to-end with full accountability for key CM/JDM partners.
  • Lead the RFQ/RFP processes and manage the selection of CM/JDM partners in collaboration with Operations, Engineering, and Business teams.
  • Negotiate contracts with CM/JDM partners, aligning agreements with business objectives.
  • Build and maintain executive relationships with CM/JDM partners to ensure product development, planning, and fulfillment needs are met.
  • Drive cost reductions through negotiation and optimization strategies with partners.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to monitor partner performance through Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), SLAs, and KPIs.
  • Ensure the sourcing strategy aligns with the company’s focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), time-to-market, quality, compliance, and performance metrics.
  • Manage Component BOMs (CBOMs) with internal teams and suppliers, focusing on excess and obsolescence mitigation, purchase price variance, and scrap reduction.
  • Oversee supplier scorecards to drive continuous improvement.
  • Support supply chain transitions and manufacturing line moves to new regions as needed.

Essential Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, or Supply Chain Management or equivalent practical professional experience.
  • 7+ years of supply chain management experience, including CM and JDM oversight.
  • Extensive experience with global suppliers and overseas manufacturing operations.
  • Proven ability to innovate and optimize outsourced manufacturing operations in high-tech environments.
  • Excellent contract negotiation and executive relationship management skills.
  • Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, including BOM management, regulatory compliance, quality management, and logistics.
  • Advanced project management, analytical, and reporting skills.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience engaging senior executives.
  • Experience in manufacturing line transitions across countries or regions.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience working in consumer electronics or other technology-driven industries.
  • Familiarity with NPI (New Product Introduction) processes and collaborative supply chain design.
  • Expertise in cross-functional collaboration, working with operations, engineering, and business teams.

Salary Range:  $190,000 - $235,000

Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)

  • The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills
  • At Humane, you'll enjoy benefits that include health & wellness and work/life balance offerings. Our portfolio of benefits include: comprehensive healthcare insurance, disability insurance, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, and a 401K plan
  • Humane employees also enjoy generous paid time off and leave programs, commuter benefits, team events, snacks and other perks

Why Humane?

  • Develop cutting edge technologies in a creative and innovative environment
  • Imagine new opportunities in areas that matter and will impact the world you live in
  • Be a part of a high performing team of the world’s best innovators and executors
  • Flexible work arrangements to support you in working in the way that you work best
  • Our values: trust truth +joy

At Humane, diversity is important to us.

Humane is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion (including, but not necessarily limited to, religious creed, dress, and grooming practices), citizenship, marital status, age, national origin, place of birth, height, weight, ancestry, mental or physical disability, genetic information, medical condition, U.S. (state and federal) military and veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, gender, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical condition), or any other characteristics protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws (“protected characteristics” or “protected categories”). Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and other similar state laws and ordinances, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. At Humane, building a healthy and safe workplace is core to our mission. We prohibit harassment of any kind.

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