Senior Staff Strategic Sourcing Manager

We are looking for a Senior Staff Strategic Sourcing Manager. As a Senior Staff Strategic Sourcing Manager, you'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems. In this role, you will manage supplier selection, performance, risk, and compliance within IonQ's supply base, primarily focusing on laser and optics. You will work closely with technical and production teams to understand supply base needs and drive performance to support IonQ's roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a supply strategy for a given commodity group(s), with consideration for hardware performance against IonQ's technical roadmap. This includes, but is not limited to, sourcing strategy, supplier selection, and supplier maintenance to meet current and future business needs.
• Responsible for establishing and maintaining strategic partnerships within the supply base while reducing supply chain risk, including conducting periodic business reviews.
• Develop and lead cross-functional efforts internally and externally to improve supply chain performance, decrease risk, and reduce total cost of ownership.
• Lead efforts with other functional areas to develop and deploy standard metrics to measure supplier performance and risk in areas of technology, quality, responsiveness, delivery and cost (TQRDC).
• Responsible for negotiating with suppliers on agreements, balancing business needs and tradeoffs, partnering with IonQ's legal department
• Partner with IonQ's legal, security and procurement teams develop and enhance standard supplier engagement documents.
• Responsible for collaborating with other functional areas within IonQ to successfully determine, coordinate, and consolidate IonQ's global needs to suppliers in a streamlined manner, to include forecasts, technical needs, design changes, delivery needs, etc.
• Report out to executive leadership on a regular basis with regards to supply chain strategy, performance and risk/risk mitigation.

You'd be a good fit with:

• 7-10 years experience in supply chain management or strategic procurement/sourcing in a manufacturing environment
• Experience successfully negotiating with and managing suppliers
• Strong written/verbal communication skills to executive level audiences (internal and external)
• Comfortable working in an extremely high level of ambiguity
• Strong desire to seek opportunities for improvement and drive strategic change
• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering, physics, or other technical field
• Strongly skilled at managing across functional areas
• Strong Microsoft Office and Google Suite (e.g., Google Sheets, Google Slides) skills
• Experience in ERP systems with a strong knowledge of MRP
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills to executive-level audiences (internal and external)
• Deep technical understanding of laser systems and optics

You'd be a great fit with:

• CPIM or CSCP certification
• Additional experience desired with semiconductor, optics, and photonics components, modules and systems
• Best-in-class cross-functional communication, collaboration & presentation skills
• Experience developing business processes for scale
• Experience with NetSuite
• Experience with strategic sourcing in a defense contracting environment (i.e., FAR/DFARs experience)
• Experience operating in an ISO9001 environment

Location: This role can be based onsite or hybrid in College Park, MD or Bothell, WA. We are open to considering remote options for the right candidate.

Travel: Travel up to 25% of the time.

The approximate base salary range for this position is $143,410 - $187,011.