Supply Chain Manager
Lumilens· Operations
SingaporeFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Experienced Supply Chain Manager to lead end-to-end supply chain management for optical and photonic components, including supplier identification, qualification, negotiation, planning, and risk management to align with build schedules and ramp requirements.
Responsibilities
- Translate plans and forecasts into supplier capacity requirements and allocation requests for sourced commodities.
- Monitor supplier lead times, allocation cycles, and delivery commitments, and flag gaps against build schedules early.
- Coordinate with planning and production teams to align supplier capacity and delivery commitments with prototype, pilot, and production build schedules.
- Develop and manage supply plans, balancing demand forecasts, inventory targets, and manufacturing capabilities across global partners
- Establish planning processes, metrics, and governance to enable consistent, data-driven decision making
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance supply chain agility, efficiency, a responsiveness in a fast-scale environment
- Lead supplier qualification activities in partnership with engineering and quality teams (technical audits, sample evaluation, process capability review).
- Assess supplier financial health, manufacturing capacity, and technology roadmap alignment.
- Support commercial negotiations for pricing, capacity commitments, and supply agreements with optics/photonics suppliers
- Partner with engineering and product teams to translate technology roadmaps into sourcing plans, well ahead of production needs.
- Own cost-reduction roadmaps for key commodities, tracking savings against targets.
- Maintain visibility of long-lead and critical-path optical components across the supply base.
- Proactively identify and mitigate supply risks: allocation constraints, single-source exposure, geopolitical/export-control exposure, and capacity shortfalls.
- Build contingency and dual-source plans for critical components identified as at-risk.
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and program management to translate product requirements into scalable supply chain strategies
- Work closely with engineering on component specifications, alternate part qualification, and second-source enablement.
- Support contract manufacturing (CM) partners with supplier introductions and component allocation, where components are consigned or CM-managed.
- Track supplier performance: on-time delivery, quality (PPM/yield), cost trends, and capacity utilization.
- Maintain a sourcing and supply roadmap and risk dashboard for optics/photonics commodities, reporting regularly to supply chain and engineering leadership.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Materials Science, Supply Chain, or related field
- 5+ years of sourcing/procurement and supply chain experience
- Proven track record negotiating supply agreements and managing supplier relationships across Asia and other global regions
- Excellent analytical and cross-functional stakeholder management skills
Last updated Aug 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Lumilens
Connectivity Platform for AI
Lumilens provides next-gen photonic interconnects for massively scaling out – and scaling up – AI compute infrastructure.
Photonic InterconnectsNext-Gen ManufacturingSystem-level knowledgeLumicore platformCPO/SiPh manufacturing
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