Hardware Strategic Sourcing & Manufacturing Partnerships Manager

OpenAI
Singapore
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Manufacturing & Production OperationsExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Commercial judgment","Hands-on execution","Negotiation","Analytical judgment","Relationship building"]

Own the end-to-end manufacturing partner lifecycle for hardware programs, leading sourcing strategies and managing RFIs/RFPs to evaluate and select JDM, CM, and ODM partners. Negotiate and structure commercial agreements, drive should-cost and open-book pricing, and translate contracts into onboarding and program bring-up plans. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, legal, security, and program teams to manage readiness, ramps, governance, and risk mitigation across the hardware ecosystem.

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Hardware Strategic Sourcing & Manufacturing Partnerships Manager

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end manufacturing partner lifecycle for hardware programs, leading sourcing strategies and managing RFIs/RFPs to evaluate and select JDM, CM, and ODM partners. Negotiate and structure commercial agreements, drive should-cost and open-book pricing, and translate contracts into onboarding and program bring-up plans. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, finance, legal, security, and program teams to manage readiness, ramps, governance, and risk mitigation across the hardware ecosystem.
Location: Singapore
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Manufacturing & Production Operations
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • ā€¢Develop and execute sourcing and partnership strategies across JDM, CM, and ODM models based on product requirements, complexity, scale, speed, cost, and risk.
  • ā€¢Lead end-to-end RFI and RFP processes, including requirement definition, market outreach, competitive bidding, stakeholder evaluations, and selection recommendations.
  • ā€¢Evaluate manufacturing partners on technical capabilities, readiness, quality systems, capacity, financial stability, security, supply-chain resilience, commercial competitiveness, and alignment.
  • ā€¢Negotiate and structure JDM, CM, and ODM agreements covering services, responsibilities, IP, warranties, service levels, pricing, capacity commitments, tooling, and program terms.
  • ā€¢Drive partner onboarding and program bring-up, translating agreements into operating plans, governance, milestones, forecasts, escalation, and continuous improvement.

Key Requirements

  • ā€¢10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, procurement, or supply-chain leadership in hardware, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, or technology infrastructure.
  • ā€¢Experience selecting, negotiating with, and managing JDM, CM, and ODM partners supporting complex hardware programs.
  • ā€¢Ability to lead partner engagements from RFI/RFP through evaluation, selection, contracting, onboarding, new product introduction, production ramp, and ongoing relationship management.
  • ā€¢Strong negotiation skills structuring agreements for engineering services, manufacturing, tooling, capacity, pricing, IP, quality, warranties, and delivery commitments.
  • ā€¢Technical credibility to collaborate with hardware engineering and manufacturing teams on rack-scale systems, compute infrastructure, networking, storage, silicon, or related hardware.
Experience:10+ yearsHardwareSemiconductorsAdvanced manufacturingTechnology infrastructure
Skills:Commercial judgmentHands-on executionNegotiationAnalytical judgmentRelationship building
Tech Stack:ERPMRPPLM

Company Brief

OpenAI
Develops and deploys advanced generative AI models (including ChatGPT and DALLĀ·E) and AI infrastructure, providing APIs and consumer products to accelerate safe AGI for broad benefit.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Hectocorn (USD 100B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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