Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

TE Connectivity; United States; On-site; USD 151,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

Job summary

TE Connectivity is seeking a Senior Manager, Advanced Sourcing to lead global NPI sourcing strategies and supplier development. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, and Operations to align sourcing with design phases, drive multi-source strategies, and ensure supply continuity in a rapidly evolving electronics market.

Role emphasizes strategic leadership, risk management, and sustainability, with responsibility to guide supplier selection, cost analysis, and market

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in engineering, supply chain or related field.
• 10+ years strategic sourcing, procurement, engineering, operations, or supply chain.
• 5 years people management experience.
• Experience supporting new product introductions and technical sourcing programs.
• Strong commercial negotiation and supplier management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a global environment.
• Strong analytical and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead sourcing for global NPI programs across TE units.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management on sourcing during design phases.
• Guide supplier selection, multi-source strategies, and early engagement.
• Establish strategies to strengthen market position, speed time-to-market, and ensure supply continuity.
• Enable transformation initiatives that enhance product launch execution and speed.
• Lead supplier evaluation, qualification, onboarding, and capability building.
• Conduct commercial negotiations supporting NPI and growth.
• Maintain preferred supplier frameworks.
• Collaborate to advance innovation, cost reduction, capacity, and sustainability.
• Identify technology, supply, geopolitical, and lifecycle risks and mitigate.
• Develop mitigation strategies: alternate sourcing, redesign, inventory planning.
• Use market intelligence to spot risks and opportunities.
• Advance continuity planning for electronics commodities.
• Drive productivity and cost reduction through early sourcing.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

NPI leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Negotiations

Data analytics

Supplier development

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field

Job description

• Alternate source qualification success rate

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Job Overview

The Senior Manager, Advanced Sourcing leads the development and execution of global advanced sourcing strategies that enable new product introductions (NPI), technology roadmaps, supplier innovation, cost competitiveness, risk management, and sustainability objectives across TE Connectivity's Electronics & Cables portfolio.

This role serves as the critical link between Engineering, Product Management, Operations, Business Unit Procurement, and Global Strategic Sourcing to influence sourcing decisions early in the product development lifecycle. The position will lead supplier selection, technology scouting, cost analysis, risk mitigation, and supplier development activities to ensure TE maintains a strong market position in rapidly evolving electronics markets.

Success Metrics

• NPI program sourcing engagement rate
• Preferred supplier utilization
• Productivity pipeline generated through early sourcing involvement
• Supply risk mitigation actions implemented
• Alternate source qualification success rate
• Supplier innovation contributions
• Sustainability and Scope 3 engagement metrics
• Support of BU growth, competitiveness, and margin objectives

Job Requirements

Advanced Sourcing Strategy & NPI Leadership

• Lead sourcing for global NPI programs across TE units.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management on sourcing during design phases.
• Guide supplier selection, multi-source strategies, and early engagement.
• Establish strategies to strengthen market position, speed time-to-market, and ensure supply continuity.
• Enable transformation initiatives that enhance product launch execution and speed

Electronics Commodity & Technology Leadership

• Lead sourcing and market intelligence for electronics commodities and emerging tech.
• Monitor technology trends, supplier capabilities, risks, and market changes.
• Identify opportunities in alternate sources, tech advances, and value engineering.

Supplier Selection & Development

• Lead supplier evaluation, qualification, onboarding, and capability building.
• Conduct commercial negotiations supporting NPI and growth.
• Maintain preferred supplier frameworks.
• Collaborate to advance innovation, cost reduction, capacity, and sustainability.

Risk Management & Supply Chain Resilience

• Identify technology, supply, geopolitical, and lifecycle risks.
• Develop mitigation strategies: alternate sourcing, redesign, inventory planning.
• Use market intelligence to spot risks and opportunities.
• Advance continuity planning for electronics commodities.

Cost Competitiveness & Value Engineering

• Drive productivity and cost reduction through early sourcing.
• Develop cost models and benchmark pricing.
• Collaborate on value analysis and engineering.
• Implement alternate component qualification for cost and resilience.

Sustainability & Compliance

• Lead supplier engagement on sustainability and Scope 3 reporting.
• Work with ESG, Engineering, Procurement on compliance.
• Facilitate supplier sustainability assessments and improvements.
• Include sustainability in sourcing and selection.

Data, Analytics & Category Intelligence

• Develop market intelligence and commodity taxonomies.
• Enhance tech classifications and sourcing opportunities.
• Use benchmarking, intelligence, and risk tools for decisions.
• Lead initiatives to improve sourcing governance and data quality.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Partner and build strategic alliances with Engineering, Product Management, Operations, and Business Units
• Build alignment and guide decisions globally.
• Lead cross-functional teams on growth, innovation, resilience, and productivity.
• Manage 2-3 sourcing analysts

Required

What your background should look like

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or related field
• 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, engineering, operations, or supply chain.
• 5 years of people management experience
• Experience supporting new product introductions and technical sourcing programs.
• Strong commercial negotiation and supplier management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a global environment.
• Strong analytical and project management skills.

Preferred

• Experience in electronics manufacturing, semiconductors, PCB/PCBA, connectors, cables, or related technologies.
• Advanced understanding of electronics supply chains and technology roadmaps.
• Experience with supplier risk management, market intelligence tools, cost modeling, and sustainability programs.
• MBA or advanced technical degree.

Competencies

SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)

About Te Connectivity

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more. Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Compensation

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $151,300 – $189,100 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
• Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
• Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.

EOE, Including Disability/Vets

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