Senior Global Supply Manager - Mechanicals
Top Benefits
About the role
Your New Role and Team
Sanctuary AI, a world leader in building dexterity-driven Physical AI for general purpose robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Sr. Global Supply Manager to join our Operations team. The Sr. Global Supply Manager is a crucial part of our team, supporting product commercialization. Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain, you’ll contribute to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our growing organization.
As Sanctuary AI’s Senior Global Supply Manager, you'll be a valued part of the team as you support the continued improvement in our Operations function, own the coordination of team project deliverables, and innovate best practices that drive continuous improvements in our product commercialization.
Success Criteria
- Drive the sourcing and supplier selection process for mechanical components and assemblies to support Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations goals and objectives.
- Develop and implement sourcing and cost management and strategies that support existing platforms and new product development.
- Develop and implement supply continuity plans for critical components.
- Assess market conditions, identify industry best practices and emerging trends to identify new cost reduction and value creation opportunities.
- Lead and participate in cross-functional teams to find, assess, and select suppliers that will improve value to the organization and help attain targeted business results.
- Negotiate and implement appropriate contracts with suppliers.
- Establish and implement procurement policies with suppliers to ensure quality, delivery, and cost improvements including KPI’s and scorecards.
- Relationship management, market intelligence on potential suppliers, monitoring vendor deliverables and schedules.
- Communicate the demand forecast as necessary to ensure supply continuity, and and capacity availability.
- Analysis of technical and business risks and development strategies for mitigation.
- Interface with product development, operations, business development and other groups to ensure key supply chain partners’ performance is well aligned to the needs of the business.
Your Experience and Qualifications
- 3 -5 years of experience in procurement or supply chain management, including experience managing mechanical component and assembly sourcing and procurement.
- Effective management of component sourcing within a manufacturing environment; RFP/RFQ, supplier selection, project execution, cost and timing management and project close activities.
- Excellent project management and cross-functional team leadership skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at any level; strong preference for spoken and written Mandarin proficiency.
- Strong analytical, research, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to travel globally up to 25%
- Previous experience in working with contract manufacturers, domestic and offshore.
- Strong ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines; able to balance short-term, urgent needs with long-term strategic initiatives.
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to collaborate and partner with key stakeholders within the Engineering and Product Development organization.
- Familiarity with cross-functional team project management
- Ability to analyze and problem solve complex operational challenges
- Ability to analyze and problem solve complex operational challenges
- Strong negotiation skills
- Understanding of various sourcing agreements and contracts
- Excellent time management and multitasking skills
- Ability to develop and implement a well-thought-out sourcing strategy.
- Advanced knowledge of procurement and business operations, systems, organizational structure, performance metrics (KPI) and supply base.
- Technical competence – understanding datasheets/specifications, and manufacturing processes.
Traits
- Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to mission objectives
- Successful candidates will be a proponent of personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
- Empathic listener who is solution-oriented in both work and working relationship
- Consistent bias for action, effective communication, and building positive interpersonal relationships
- Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently with a sense of urgency and teneacity
- Mission-driven and passionate about bringing physical artificial intelligence to general purpose robots
Working at Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.
Compensation and Benefits
Sanctuary offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently surpasses market standards.
About Sanctuary AI
Founded in 2018, Sanctuary builds humanoid robots and a novel control system for them that integrates symbolic logic and reasoning with data-driven robot foundation models. We use our robots to collect vision, audio, touch, and proprioception data from the perspective of the robot while they perform real-world work tasks. We use that data to train multimodal robot foundation models. Because our systems are vertically integrated, we can design, deploy, and refine at scale. Our mission is to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.
Recruiting and Employment Agency Notice:
Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to any Sanctuary AI employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary AI the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary AI's sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.
About Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.
Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.
Senior Global Supply Manager - Mechanicals
Top Benefits
About the role
Your New Role and Team
Sanctuary AI, a world leader in building dexterity-driven Physical AI for general purpose robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Sr. Global Supply Manager to join our Operations team. The Sr. Global Supply Manager is a crucial part of our team, supporting product commercialization. Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain, you’ll contribute to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our growing organization.
As Sanctuary AI’s Senior Global Supply Manager, you'll be a valued part of the team as you support the continued improvement in our Operations function, own the coordination of team project deliverables, and innovate best practices that drive continuous improvements in our product commercialization.
Success Criteria
- Drive the sourcing and supplier selection process for mechanical components and assemblies to support Engineering, Manufacturing, and Operations goals and objectives.
- Develop and implement sourcing and cost management and strategies that support existing platforms and new product development.
- Develop and implement supply continuity plans for critical components.
- Assess market conditions, identify industry best practices and emerging trends to identify new cost reduction and value creation opportunities.
- Lead and participate in cross-functional teams to find, assess, and select suppliers that will improve value to the organization and help attain targeted business results.
- Negotiate and implement appropriate contracts with suppliers.
- Establish and implement procurement policies with suppliers to ensure quality, delivery, and cost improvements including KPI’s and scorecards.
- Relationship management, market intelligence on potential suppliers, monitoring vendor deliverables and schedules.
- Communicate the demand forecast as necessary to ensure supply continuity, and and capacity availability.
- Analysis of technical and business risks and development strategies for mitigation.
- Interface with product development, operations, business development and other groups to ensure key supply chain partners’ performance is well aligned to the needs of the business.
Your Experience and Qualifications
- 3 -5 years of experience in procurement or supply chain management, including experience managing mechanical component and assembly sourcing and procurement.
- Effective management of component sourcing within a manufacturing environment; RFP/RFQ, supplier selection, project execution, cost and timing management and project close activities.
- Excellent project management and cross-functional team leadership skills.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at any level; strong preference for spoken and written Mandarin proficiency.
- Strong analytical, research, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to travel globally up to 25%
- Previous experience in working with contract manufacturers, domestic and offshore.
- Strong ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects while maintaining accuracy and meeting deadlines; able to balance short-term, urgent needs with long-term strategic initiatives.
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to collaborate and partner with key stakeholders within the Engineering and Product Development organization.
- Familiarity with cross-functional team project management
- Ability to analyze and problem solve complex operational challenges
- Ability to analyze and problem solve complex operational challenges
- Strong negotiation skills
- Understanding of various sourcing agreements and contracts
- Excellent time management and multitasking skills
- Ability to develop and implement a well-thought-out sourcing strategy.
- Advanced knowledge of procurement and business operations, systems, organizational structure, performance metrics (KPI) and supply base.
- Technical competence – understanding datasheets/specifications, and manufacturing processes.
Traits
- Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to mission objectives
- Successful candidates will be a proponent of personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates
- Empathic listener who is solution-oriented in both work and working relationship
- Consistent bias for action, effective communication, and building positive interpersonal relationships
- Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently with a sense of urgency and teneacity
- Mission-driven and passionate about bringing physical artificial intelligence to general purpose robots
Working at Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.
Compensation and Benefits
Sanctuary offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently surpasses market standards.
About Sanctuary AI
Founded in 2018, Sanctuary builds humanoid robots and a novel control system for them that integrates symbolic logic and reasoning with data-driven robot foundation models. We use our robots to collect vision, audio, touch, and proprioception data from the perspective of the robot while they perform real-world work tasks. We use that data to train multimodal robot foundation models. Because our systems are vertically integrated, we can design, deploy, and refine at scale. Our mission is to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.
Recruiting and Employment Agency Notice:
Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to any Sanctuary AI employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary AI the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary AI's sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.
About Sanctuary AI
Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.
Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.