Senior Strategic Sourcing Leader: Electronics & EMS

Dexcom, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexcom is seeking a Sr. Manager of Electronics Sourcing to guide a cross-functional team in securing Contract Manufacturing, PCBA, ICs, batteries, and related components.

You will shape category strategies, drive supplier performance, and ensure continuity across the electronics value chain. You will collaborate with Dexcom product teams to align supply risks with roadmap needs, manage escalations, and lead strategic negotiations to optimize cost, quality, and capacity across EMS partners and

Qualifications

• Experience leading category teams for electronics and contract manufacturing.
• Proven ability to develop and execute sourcing strategies across EMS, semiconductors and components.
• Strong negotiation, contract management, and supplier risk mitigation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and coach a team of category managers responsible for Contract Manufacturing, PCBA, integrated circuits, batteries, PCBs, passives, crystals, temperature sensors, Receiver electronics, and related finished goods.
• Develop and execute short- and long-term category strategies that align technology roadmaps, supplier capability, qualified capacity, cost, quality, risk, geographic footprint, and lifecycle requirements with Dexcom product and business plans.
• Own executive supplier relationships and commercial strategy across EMS partners, semiconductor and component manufacturers, authorized channels, Tier 1 suppliers, and critical sub-tier suppliers.
• Lead supplier selection, RFIs/RFQs, negotiations, contracting, cost improvement, capacity assurance and reservation strategies, allocation models, scenario-based demand and capacity reconciliation, recovery planning, and business continuity plans.
• Build sourcing strategies through the full electronics value chain, including semiconductor foundry and assembly/test dependencies, battery suppliers, PCB fabricators, component manufacturers, authorized distribution, Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers, PCBA manufacturing, final assembly, test, and critical raw materials.
• Own BOM-level electronics supply-risk management across current and future products, including visibility to supplier, part, manufacturing-site, sub-tier, raw-material, and common-node dependencies.
• Establish a single, fact-based supplier-readiness view covering BOM/AML status, supplier award, purchase-order placement, material lead time, inventory coverage, component and manufacturing capacity, qualification, contracts, alternate sources, and recovery actions.
• Validate supplier capacity claims against demonstrated output, yield, OEE, equipment, labor, materials, lead times, planned expansion, and recovery assumptions rather than relying solely on stated nameplate capacity.
• Lead electronics sourcing through product transitions and lifecycle events, including G7-to-G8 migration, supplier ramp-up and ramp-down, last-time buys, inventory exposure, shelf life, obsolescence, alternate-source qualification, and end-of-life execution.
• Serve as

Skills

Category management

Supplier relations

RFIs/RFQs

Negotiations

Sourcing strategy

Job description

Dexcom is seeking a Sr. Manager of Electronics Sourcing to guide a cross-functional team in securing Contract Manufacturing, PCBA, ICs, batteries, and related components.

You will shape category strategies, drive supplier performance, and ensure continuity across the electronics value chain. You will collaborate with Dexcom product teams to align supply risks with roadmap needs, manage escalations, and lead strategic negotiations to optimize cost, quality, and capacity across EMS partners and