Materials Program Manager, Product Operations - Central MPM/MM

Sunnyvale, CA onsite role with a salary range of USD 101,600 - 177,800 per year; requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent and at least 3 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive the engineering and supply chain teams to optimize BOM+MVA cost below target.
• Negotiate component costs managed by the contract manufacturer.
• Track the program actual costs versus target to identify program deltas and corrective actions to bring back on track.
• Host monthly executive management cost reviews that deep dive through every aspect of your product cost.
• Determine the Supplier Plan of Record to ensure the optimal mix of suppliers, balancing cost, quality, and supply continuity.
• Manage device-level component qualification, working with engineering, product integrity, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure components are fully qualified before mass production and approve purchases.
• Perform competitive cost analysis.
• Attend program new product introduction meetings to understand the cost implication of engineering and/or process changes as related to your product fully loaded cost targets.
• Work with the OEM/ODM to set your product purchase order cost for the upcoming period, and manage purchase price variance claims resulting from engineering changes, component obsolescence or forecast variance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of business agreements development, negotiation and execution experience
• Experience influencing at all levels within an organization, particularly at the executive level
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• 3+ years of supply chain experience, or Master's degree or equivalent
• Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
• Experience improving and creating new processes and structure to achieve goals
• Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders
• 3+ years of managing complex technology projects working directly with engineering teams

Technologies

• AI/ML
• GenAI
• Analytics
• Database
• Storage

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
• EAP
• Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

A Day in the Life

The Materials Program Manager has a business orientation and works with local and remote operations and engineering teams to drive development, implementation and management of the product budget. This person is the business voice responsible for capturing, documenting and communicating financial exposures and outlays as it relates to their product. They are involved throughout all stages of the product family’s life cycle to ensure financial targets are achieved.

About the Team

The MPM role is part of an Operations core team that partners with engineering and manufacturing to drive New Product Introduction (NPI) products from concept, development and into Mass Production (MP).

Description

The Materials Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for the management and delivery of the product financial health for ground breaking, highly integrated consumer products. This person has a business orientation and is responsible for working within the local and remote operations, engineering and software teams driving development, implementation and management of the product budget. This person is the business voice responsible for capturing, documenting and communicating financial exposures and outlays related to the product.