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Global Supply Manager at Neuralink | LAYIQ

Sourcing Strategy & Supplier Selection
Own end-to-end sourcing strategy for a portfolio of categories spanning mechanical, electromechanical, electronic, optical, raw-material, and biocompatible-material commodities used in the Implant and Robot. Drive technical and commercial requirement definition, supplier evaluation, scoring, and award recommendation.
Identify, qualify, and onboard new suppliers; build a global, resilient supplier base with deliberate dual-sourcing and geographic-risk strategies.
Contracts & Cost Management
Negotiate contracts, MSAs, statements of work, NDAs, quality agreements, and IP terms in partnership with Legal and Finance — in a way that protects Neuralink's IP and regulatory position without strangling supplier flexibility.
Build should-cost models and total-cost-of-ownership analyses; lead year-over-year cost reduction (VAVE, resourcing, redesign, payment-term, freight, and yield levers). Own pricing negotiation for material and services impacting the manufacturing of Neuralink’s products
Partner with Design and SIE teams on Design for Manufacturability, Design for Cost, and make/buy decisions early in the development cycle — not after the design is frozen.
Supplier Performance & Capacity
Manage supplier performance against quality, delivery, cost, and responsiveness scorecards; lead quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and drive corrective action when performance slips.
Own capacity planning and capacity commitments with suppliers; align supplier capacity to Neuralink's clinical-build and commercial-ramp forecasts, including upside scenarios.
Be the commercial single point of accountability when a supply issue threatens a clinical or commercial build — from first escalation through closed recovery.
Risk & Continuity Management
Drive supply-risk management: map sub-tier dependencies, monitor geopolitical and financial-health risk, and build mitigation plans (inventory buffers, dual-source, alternate qualifications).
Manage end-of-life and obsolescence for sourced components; ensure transitions to replacement parts are planned, qualified, and commercially closed before supply gaps occur.
Required Qualifications
Background & Experience
Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline — Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Manufacturing, Materials, Chemical, Biomedical, or Aerospace), Supply Chain Management, Operations, Business, Finance, or Economics — or equivalent practical experience demonstrating the same analytical depth.
Generalist track record: demonstrated experience moving across at least two distinct commodities or categories, learning new technical and commercial domains quickly rather than specializing in a single category throughout your career.
Sourcing and supplier management experience in one or more of: hardware manufacturing, medical devices, aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, semiconductor, robotics, industrial OEM, or military/government/consulting environments that develop the same skill set.
Sourcing & Negotiation
Hands-on experience running full RFI/RFQ/RFP cycles end-to-end — from requirements definition and supplier scorecarding through award, contract execution, and supplier onboarding.
Demonstrated commercial negotiation experience across piece-price, tooling, NRE, payment terms, lead time, MOQ, capacity commitments, and IP/liability terms; comfortable holding the line with suppliers without burning the relationship.
Strong should-cost and total-cost-of-ownership analytical skills, including the ability to build a cost model from material, process, labor, overhead, yield, and margin inputs and use it to drive negotiation outcomes.
Supplier Quality & Industrialization
Working familiarity with the supplier-quality and industrialization toolkit (PPAP, APQP, FAI, PFMEA, FMEA, control plans, SPC, MSA, 8D/RCCA) — enough to operate credibly with SIE and Quality counterparts and to read a supplier's process documents.
Working familiarity with at least one Quality Management System framework — ISO 13485, 21 CFR Part 820, AS9100, IATF 16949, or ISO 9001 — and how it shapes change control, documentation, and supplier qualification.
Technical & Commercial Literacy
Solid technical literacy: able to read engineering drawings, basic GD&T, BOMs, and bills of process; able to translate between engineering and commercial language without losing fidelity in either direction.
Contract literacy: practical experience reading and redlining MSAs, supply agreements, quality agreements, NDAs, and statements of work in partnership with Legal — with a clear sense of what matters commercially and what matters legally.
Familiarity with ERP and procurement systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, Zip) and an understanding of how data flows from BOM to PO to receipt to payment.
Execution & Communication
Strong project-management skills: able to run a parallel portfolio of sourcing initiatives against aggressive dates, sequence dependencies, escalate cleanly, and communicate status to stakeholders without being chased.
Strong written and verbal communication: able to run a supplier negotiation, walk an engineering team through a make-vs.-buy tradeoff, and write a one-page recommendation for leadership — all in the same day.
Strong financial and data fluency: comfortable in Excel/Google Sheets for cost modeling and scenario analysis.
Comfortable in a hands-on, fast-moving, ambiguity-tolerant environment where you are expected to own commercial outcomes, not just process — and to make sound decisions with incomplete information.

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