Supply Chain Snr Director - Power & Interconnect Sourcing

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Short/long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Oracle is seeking an experienced Supply Chain Senior Director to lead strategic sourcing for Power and Interconnect categories, driving sourcing strategies that ensure cost-effective material availability across production needs. The role encompasses supplier selection, negotiations, development, and performance management across PCBs, cabling, and interconnect technologies.

The leader will manage a team of Sourcing Managers and collaborate with Engineering, Finance, Planning, and Quality to

Qualifications

• Significant experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain leadership.
• Strong knowledge of Power and Interconnect hardware technologies.
• Experience with supplier selection, contracting, negotiations, and performance management.
• Ability to balance cost, capacity, quality, inventory, and continuity of supply.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across functions.
• Experience leading sourcing or supply chain teams.
• BS or MS degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic sourcing strategies across Power and Interconnect categories.
• Lead supplier assessment, selection, negotiations, and supplier development.
• Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships to support competitive outcomes and continuity of supply.
• Partner with Engineering, Finance, Planning, Quality, and other organisations to align sourcing decisions.
• Ensure timely and cost-effective availability of production materials with appropriate inventory.
• Develop and implement sourcing policies and scalable solutions to reduce costs.
• Coordinate global sourcing and procurement activities with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead, develop, and evaluate Sourcing Managers and related activities.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Supplier management

Negotiations

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Budgeting/cost control

Supply chain knowledge

Education

BS or MS degree

Job description

Job Description

Oracle is seeking an experienced Supply Chain Senior Director to lead strategic sourcing across critical Power and Interconnect categories supporting our infrastructure platforms. This senior leadership role will be responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that ensure the timely, cost-effective availability of production materials while supporting requirements across cost, capacity, inventory, quality, and supply continuity. The position will lead strategic supplier selection, negotiations, business awards, supplier development, and performance management across power systems, printed circuit boards (PCBs), cabling, and interconnect technologies. The Supply Chain Senior Director will lead a team of Sourcing Managers, provide broader leadership across related mechanical sourcing activities, and work closely with Engineering, Finance, Planning, Quality, and other organizations to support new platforms and scalable infrastructure growth. This role requires strong functional expertise, commercial judgment, executive influence, and demonstrated leadership and people management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic sourcing strategies across Power categories, including power supply units (PSUs), PowerShelf, power distribution units (PDUs), and power converters, as well as Interconnect categories including PCBs and cabling.
• Lead supplier assessment, selection, negotiations, business awards, supplier development, and ongoing supplier performance management.
• Build and maintain strategic supplier relationships that support competitive commercial outcomes, capacity requirements, quality, and continuity of supply.
• Partner across Engineering, Finance, Planning, Quality, and other organizations to align sourcing and supplier decisions with business and infrastructure requirements.
• Ensure the timely and cost-effective availability of production materials while maintaining appropriate inventory levels.
• Develop and implement sourcing policies, procedures, material controls, and scalable solutions that reduce costs and streamline execution.
• Coordinate global sourcing and procurement activities and engage internal and external stakeholders on complex commercial, supply, and supplier matters.
• Lead, develop, and evaluate Sourcing Managers while creating an organization capable of effectively executing across multiple strategic categories.
• Provide broader leadership across related mechanical sourcing activities.
• Interact with internal and external executive management and lead negotiations on difficult and complex matters.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or a related function, with demonstrated leadership of complex sourcing categories.
• Strong category, product, and supplier-market knowledge within Power, Interconnect, or related hardware technologies.
• Experience with supplier selection, supplier relationship management, contracting, commercial negotiations, supplier development, and performance management.
• Demonstrated ability to develop sourcing strategies that balance cost, capacity, quality, inventory, and continuity of supply.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience navigating complex supplier and business decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to work across technical, operational, and financial organizations and influence senior and executive-level stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership and people management skills, including experience leading and developing sourcing or supply chain teams.
• Functional expertise and broad business knowledge with the ability to translate business and technology requirements into sourcing strategies.
• BS or MS degree, or equivalent experience relevant to the functional area.

Disclaimer

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 - $306,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - M5

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