Global Supply Chain Leader — Robotics & Custom Assemblies

Energy Jobline ZR; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Energy Jobline ZR in Columbus, OH is seeking a Global Supply Manager to lead strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, supplier development, and commercial negotiations for complex, custom-engineered products and assemblies. This role owns supplier relationships from initial sourcing through prototype, NPI, production ramp, and ongoing production.

You will partner with engineering, operations, and quality while serving as the internal point of contact for key suppliers, ensuring

Qualifications

• Must have 5+ years of hands-on strategic sourcing and global supply management experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong external-facing supplier relationship and vendor management experience.
• Hands-on experience leading RFQs, supplier selection, cost negotiations, pricing, contracts, and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Experience sourcing engineered components, custom products, assemblies, electronics, or electromechanical products.
• Experience managing suppliers through prototype, NPI, launch, and production ramp.
• Experience partnering with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams.
• Strong understanding of supplier quality, capacity, delivery, cost, and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead direct sourcing and supplier management across key commodities and product categories.
• Source custom electromechanical assemblies, electronics, PCBAs, automation components, and other engineered products.
• Identify, qualify, develop, and manage domestic and global suppliers.
• Lead RFQs, supplier selection, commercial negotiations, should-cost analysis, and cost-reduction initiatives.
• Negotiate pricing, MSAs, SOWs, and supplier agreements.
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships while communicating supplier capabilities, constraints, risks, and opportunities internally.
• Manage suppliers through prototype, NPI, product launch, production ramp, and ongoing production.
• Partner directly with engineering on DFM, supplier selection, component selection, and supplier manufacturing processes.
• Manage supplier quality, capacity, delivery, lead times, cost, and escalations.
• Develop dual-source and multi-source strategies to reduce supply chain risk.
• Support make-vs-buy decisions, logistics, tariffs, Incoterms, and compliance.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Supplier relationship management

Procurement

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

NetSuite

Job description

Energy Jobline ZR in Columbus, OH is seeking a Global Supply Manager to lead strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, supplier development, and commercial negotiations for complex, custom-engineered products and assemblies. This role owns supplier relationships from initial sourcing through prototype, NPI, production ramp, and ongoing production.

You will partner with engineering, operations, and quality while serving as the internal point of contact for key suppliers, ensuring