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Supply Chain Manager

Lumilens· Operations
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Chon BuriFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Experienced Supply Chain Manager to lead sourcing strategy and end-to-end supply chain management for optical and photonic components, coordinating supplier qualification, planning, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration to support prototype to production builds.

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.

Skills

Required:Sourcing strategySupply chain planningSupplier relationship management
Last updated Sep 19, 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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