At Juniper, we believe the network is the single greatest vehicle for knowledge, understanding, and human advancement the world has ever known.
To achieve real outcomes, we know that experience is the most important requirement for networking teams and the people they serve. Delivering an experience-first, AI-Native Network pivots on the creativity and commitment of our people. It requires a consistent and committed practice, something we call the Juniper Way.
Commodity Manager
This position will be responsible for overall Thermal supplier management, supplier relationships and performance management, Sourcing/Strategy creation and execution.
Description for Internal Candidates
Juniper’s Supply Chain is a world class team with more than 400 members located globally. Our diverse, innovative, and highly adaptable team incorporates cutting-edge technologies to address the market’s changing needs. Through our development and fulfillment activities, Supply Chain strives to delight our customers in Enterprise, Cloud and Service Provider segments with the best network experience.
Role & Responsibilities
- Be responsible for overall Thermal supplier management and drive supplier excellence on quality, cost, agility and time-to-market.
- Understood Juniper’s needs to the industry and drive strategic partnerships to enable aligned investments.
- Align suppliers and Juniper technology roadmaps through understanding of market trends, Juniper future requirements, and suppliers’ technology value proposition.
- Play Thermal GCM-Sourcing/Strategy role to identify Thermal technology and business issues amongst Juniper development groups, product marketing managers and the industry.
- Collaborate with the Juniper Thermal experts to support global sourcing strategy creation and execution.
- Define supplier selection criteria, work with team on selecting supply base and develop targeted preferred supplier list, AVL mgmt.
- Negotiate and execute NDA, Master Purchase Agreements, SoW and/or Joint Development Agreements
- Scorecard suppliers and lead business reviews with Juniper and Supplier Executives
- Participate executive negotiation to achieve cost reductions and Identify sourcing opportunities and negotiate world class pricing and terms.
- Responsible for sustaining Drive RFIs and RFPs, and award process for Thermal solutions.
- Drive productivity gains through collaboration with suppliers.
- Define cost drivers, develop cost models, and establish should cost.
- Drive value engineering activities with a cross functional team.
- Understand current market pricing and dynamics of competitive landscape.
- Support the development from suppliers to enable innovative products/solutions to align with Juniper roadmap.
- Mitigate the risks in corporate strategy, supplier financials, corporate compliance, and operations.
- Possess understanding of Thermal commodity industry indicators and market intelligence
Education & Experience
- Minimum BS (Thermal, Material Science, Electrical Engineering and/or Mechanical Engineering) with combined 10 years of Engineering and Manufacturing Experience.
- Preferred MS in Engineering and/or MBA with 10+ years of Thermal Global Commodity Management, Manufacturing or Management experience in a telecom/networking.
- Direct Experience in Heatsink, Fan, Thermal Interface Material commodity & supplier management.
- Possesses strong knowledge of network system thermal solution, the overall Heatsink, Fan product and manufacturing process, and thermal interface material application.
- Demonstrated strong leadership and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated experience and exposure with CEM, ODM and JDM Mfg. model.
- Demonstrated ability to drive and close cross-functional project initiatives.
- Must possess excellent English verbal and written communications skills.
- Travel 15-20%
https://careers.juniper.net/#/?q=Supply-Chain-Hiring
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks challenges the inherent complexity that comes with networking and security in the multicloud era. We do this with products, solutions and services that transform the way people connect, work and live. We simplify the process of transitioning to a secure and automated multicloud environment to enable secure, AI-driven networks that connect the world. Additional information can be found at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.net) or connect with Juniper on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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