NPI SUPPLY CHAIN PROGRAM MANAGER

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! Job Description Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Lumentum’s optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum’s commercial lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. At Lumentum, we recognize and appreciate the importance of creating an environment in which all employees feel included and empowered to do their best work and bring great ideas to the table. Lumentum is headquartered in San Jose, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. For more information, visit . JOB SCOPE: Supply Chain Project Management: Lead the extended supply chain team during NPI, to architect and implement a sustainable and predictable supply chain for the lifetime of a product, aligning with the overall business and supply chain strategy. JOB DUTIES/ RESPONSIBILITIES: Project management and cross-functional coordination: Lead the NPI Execution team to provide functional deliverables supporting achievement of project goals. This includes project planning, schedule updating and proactively identifying risks and managing issues. Manage work commitments, ensuring required deliverables are completed on time. Provide high quality, concise management reporting of status, risks & issues, ensure completeness and accuracy of information reporting related to the Supply Chain function. Support metrics reporting and complete all deliverables in a timely manner. Communicate extensively throughout the supply chain to ensure continuous alignment of products and strategies during the NPI development cycle. Drive cross-functional teams to optimize the supply chain for specific strategic reasons, while accounting for risks, changes in schedule or demand. Sourcing strategy and supply chain risk mitigation: Onboard suppliers to support new technologies and New Product Introductions (NPI). Drive dual sourcing activities to mitigate supply risk. Architect supply chains that deliver products that meet or exceed expectations (quality, delivery, value) based on inputs from Business Units, Commodity Managers, Quality and Engineering. NPI sourcing strategy development, management and execution. Cost management and DFx / SDR: Product material cost management; Analyze BOM cost to identify cost reduction opportunities through design, content reduction/should cost and commercial means; track and ensure timely implementation of such opportunities. Facilitate early engagement between supplier and Lumentum design team to drive manufacturability, repeatability cost and lead time improvements. Planning and production transfer: Manage ramp readiness with internal teams as well as external partners (e.g., material availability, cost/assembly/test/BOM/capacity readiness and transition plans). Ensure successful production transitions meet program goals. Ensuring all supply chain commitments are met, plans are developed and carried out, and risks are mitigated for assigned products/suppliers. International and domestic travel required. KEY RELATIONSHIPS: Engineering, Program Manager, Commodity Manager, Supplier Quality Eng., Product Line Manager, planner, buyer, Contract Manufacturing, Suppliers. QUALIFICATIONS/ EDUCATION/ SKILLS: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Engineering or other relevant field or equivalent practical experience. Up to 8 years of prior experience in Supply Chain, Sourcing, Project Management, or equivalent experience. Management will consider recent college graduate with relevant degree or intern experience. Understanding of program milestones and design/development phase gating processes. Skilled user of Microsoft Office suite of business software: Word, Excel, Project and Power Point. Requires exceptional written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, analytical ability, decision making, and organizational skills. Strong process analysis and problem-solving skills. Self-motivated, goal oriented, task driven team player. Ability to create a team environment and provide leadership. Demonstrated experience in people management. PREFERENCES: Experience with supplier development and/or strategic supplier management. Project Management certification preferred. Technical degree. Master’s degree. Working knowledge of SDR/PFEP/3P Kaizen Methodologies preferred. Experience with ERP system, Oracle or similar. Experience with PLM, Agile or similar. Experience in Automotive environmental will be a plus. Lumentum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. #J-18808-Ljbffr