Category Sourcing Manager(Optical Components)

Job Overview

Provides subject matter expertise in strategic sourcing and procurement across complex and high-impact categories. Owns category strategies, leads advanced negotiations, and influences enterprise stakeholders to deliver long-term value, innovation, and supply resilience.

Job Requirements

• Driving advanced supplier negotiations and complex contracting strategies.
• Embedding compliance, regulatory, and sustainability requirements into sourcing and contracting decisions.
• Leading enterprise or multi-region category strategies across direct and indirect spend.
• Partnering with engineering and business leaders to enable early supplier involvement and innovation.
• Evaluating supplier proposals, negotiating commercial terms, and ensuring governance adherence.
• Identifying and mitigating supply, cost, and geopolitical risks through proactive sourcing strategies.

What your background should look like

• 10 years’ Experience working in a global/region commodity role in a multinational company.
• 5 years of Optical related
• Ability to understand global markets, collaborate effectively with global teams, and experience in working with suppliers in the Asia-Pacific region and Global
• Understanding of optical transceivers, optical components, CPO, optics passive fiber connectivity, Silicon photonics, Lasers (EML, Vcsel etc) and fiber interfaces
• optical transmission, optical jumpers,Components used in AI/accelerated computing interconnects.
• Solid understanding of high‑speed optical transceiver architecture: optics chain, fiber interfaces and optical budgets.
• Knowledge of optical devices and materials:

Competencies