Senior Manager, Global Supply

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125.7k - $224.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Samsara

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

📦 Logistics

🏗️ Construction

🏥 Healthcare

💰 Seed Round on 2014-08

Logistics • Construction • Healthcare

Samsara is a technology company that provides a comprehensive operations platform aimed at improving the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of organizations. Their solutions include video-based safety, vehicle telematics, equipment monitoring, workforce applications, and site visibility. Samsara serves a wide range of industries, including transportation, logistics, construction, and government. The platform connects people, systems, and data, enabling organizations to make faster, data-informed decisions. Samsara's Connected Operations technology helps complex organizations operate more effectively by offering real-time GPS, proactive alerts, compliance training, and asset tracking.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end strategic sourcing for an assigned portfolio of direct-material commodities, including supplier selection, RFQ, award, and ongoing commercial management • Lead commercial negotiations covering price, tooling/NRE, manufacturing value-add, payment terms, and Master Purchase Agreements • Build and execute supply-continuity strategies, including dual-sourcing, alternate-source qualification, buffer/inventory plans, and risk mitigation • Drive New Product Introduction sourcing with Engineering and Product to meet cost and availability goals • Establish and maintain supplier chessboard/JDM strategies • Own quarter-over-quarter cost locks and PPV reduction, maintaining commodity cost models and partnering with Finance and Planning on forecasting • Manage supplier performance for quality, delivery, cost, and innovation through business reviews and escalations • Introduce AI and analytics into procurement for spend, should-cost, and supplier-risk management • Partner with Legal, Operations Engineering, and Planning on contracting, IP, disputes, transitions, and allocations • Mentor analysts and supply managers and scale sourcing processes and decision frameworks • Champion and embed Samsara’s cultural principles • Report to the Head of Production Procurement and collaborate with Engineering, Product, Finance, and Planning • Represent Samsara with strategic suppliers and contract manufacturers globally, including regular engagement with partners in Asia

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in strategic sourcing, procurement, or global supply management • Direct commodity ownership and commercial negotiation of multi-million-dollar spend • Experience sourcing hardware/electro-mechanical components such as cables, connectors, PCB/PCBA, sensors, batteries, memory, or semiconductors • Proven NPI sourcing experience from early supplier engagement through production launch • Strong should-cost and cost-modeling capability • Experience managing global suppliers and contract/joint-design manufacturers, including partners in Asia • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders • Willingness to travel internationally, including to supplier sites in Asia, up to approximately 25% of the time • Depth in one or more core commodities preferred • Experience with dual-source frameworks, locked-markup or directed-buy structures, and strategic inventory/buffer programs preferred • People-leadership experience preferred • Familiarity with ERP/NetSuite, cost databases, and data-driven sourcing analytics preferred • Hands-on experience applying AI and advanced analytics in procurement preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff • Ongoing equity refresh opportunities tied to performance • Performance-based bonus/variable pay • Professional development stipend • Comprehensive health plans • Parental leave plans • Flexible, employee-led remote model • Above-market total compensation • Offices open for employees who prefer to work in-person