Position: Supply chain Manager
Location: North Reading, MA 01864
Duration: 8 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Pay Rate: $ 57.00-57.00/ Hr
Overview
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. We are a community of 50 million who think—and feel—differently about investing. Together, we're changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping investors achieve their goals has been our main reason for existence. At Client, we're built differently. Our client is investor-owned, meaning that we're owned by our funds, which are owned by our fund shareholder clients. Therefore, your success adds to ours, so you're surrounded by people who care about the same things. With no other parties to answer to, we make decisions—including keeping investing costs as low as possible—with your needs in mind. Because of our unique structure, your goals align with our goals.
Job Description
- Oversee supply chain initiatives, working cross-functionally with sourcing, planning, product, and engineering teams to balance commercial and technical trade-offs.
- A successful candidate will leverage experience in global supply chain management, and a self-driven approach to achieving sustained operational excellence and cost optimization.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally with supply chain teams dedicated to the supply chain design, sourcing and logistics decisions, and supply chain execution of programs through the product development cycle.
- Act as a single point of contact for program resources to communicate supply chain decisions and progress, provide feedback on supply chain implications of program decisions and changes, and support financial planning and capital approvals for the program.
- Synthesize inputs from Sourcing, Planning, Logistics, Engineering, and Finance to create balanced recommendations that drive operational excellence, cost reduction targets, and supply chain resilience
- Execute cost reduction roadmaps measuring total cost of ownership including spares, service, replacements, tariffs, and logistics impacts
- Own lead time optimization analysis with clear reduction roadmaps and transparent reporting
- Maintain ownership of supply chain requirements throughout GA and end-of-life phases
- Coordinate cross functional implementation for post-launch design changes (ECOs)
- Drive root cause analysis and process improvements that prevent future occurrences, ensuring sustained operational excellence across the product lifecycle
What makes this role interesting?
- Ground-floor opportunity building a new supply chain organization managing Amazon-client level scale across robotics and automation.
- Team culture: Cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision-making, ownership and aspiration for process standardization over firefighting, and bar-raising Bias for Action and Ownership.
- Competitive market comparison: Amazon Client Robotics scale — managing 30+ product lines across robotics, electromechanical systems, and automation at unmatched industrial automation innovation.
- Unique selling points: Single-threaded ownership of end-to-end product supply chain strategy spanning cost, lead time, supplier performance, and risk management. Daily visibility to Director leadership.
- Value added / experience gained: Exposure to industry leading AI-powered analytics and cross-functional leadership, and multi million dollar savings projects.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, or related field
- 3+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, commodity management, or product operations management in electromechanical commodities
- Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder supply chain initiatives in sustained operations
- Strong analytical skills with ability to synthesize data from multiple sources into actionable insights
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority (matrix management)
- Experience with supplier relationship management and performance tracking
- Knowledge of global hardware and electromechanical supply chains
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in robotics, electromechanical systems, or similar technology-intensive industries
- Background in both NPI (New Product Introduction) and sustained operations supply chain management
- 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, commodity management, or product operations management with direct responsibility in multiple commodities (electromechanical, metals, plastics, ICs, etc)
- Advanced degree (MBA, MS in Supply Chain Management, or Engineering)
- Experience with ERP systems (Oracle, SAP) and PLM tools (Agile)
- Demonstrated success in cost reduction and lead time optimization initiatives
- Experience with scenario planning and risk mitigation in complex supply chains
- Knowledge of tariff management and trade compliance
- Strong presentation and executive communication skills
- Experience with Product Development Process (PDP) frameworks
- High degree of autonomy in decision-making with clear judgment on when to escalate versus resolve independently
KPI's:
- Cost savings pipelined and achieved
- Lead time reduction
- Material on time delivery
Leadership Principles:
Top 3 must-have hard skills:
- Level of experience with each
- Stack-ranked by importance
Candidate Review & Selection:
- Strategic Sourcing / Commodity Management Exposure — Experience managing or collaborating on sourcing strategies, supplier negotiations, cost reduction roadmaps, and second-source qualifications across electromechanical commodities. In the absence of direct managing supplier relationship, explicit examples of directly contributing to such strategies is required
- Supply Chain Planning & Lead Time Optimization — Ability to drive lead time reduction, scenario planning, clear-to-build/deploy shortage resolution, and capacity alignment with demand forecasts.
- Data Analytics & Reporting — Strong analytical skills to synthesize data from multiple sources (cost, supplier readiness, quality, lead time) into actionable insights and consolidated performance reporting.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
