Principal Strategic Sourcing Manager - Mechanical

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About the role: The lead Electro Mechanicals commodities manager (director-level) is the domain and technical expert in the mechanical commodities space for Peloton Interactive, including metals, power supply, motors, power absorbers, batteries, motor control boards, PCBAs, braking systems, cameras, lenses, and magnets. He/she will assist the company to research future architectures and technologies for its breakthrough end to end fitness systems. This director-level role will be responsible for developing new suppliers and new sourcing partnerships that can be incorporated into new products, as well as existing products to improve cost, efficiency or quality.  Work with the broader internal cross functional teams to evaluate the opportunities, while ensuring commercial agreements, intellectual property, and project agreements are accurate and well established prior to pipelining. 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Act as the sourcing leader in the electronics commodities space.
  • Develop strategic roadmaps linking to his/her relevant commodities, which include scanning and developing new suppliers for potential incorporation into new/existing products.
  • Drive advanced sourcing efforts across key electronics areas, partnering closely with software, system, electrical, and other key engineering & technology disciplines.
  • Deliver a seamless transition of viable new technologies into the product development process managing risks while meeting quality, schedule, and cost goals.
  • Collaborate internally, negotiate the right tradeoffs, solicit cooperation and resolve problems, and advance new supplier or product offerings.
  • Provide strong technical direction within the specific commodities, by evaluating and guiding product strategy throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Manage and lead the operations effort of developing new and adaptations of existing technologies for Peloton. 
  • Develop & execute commercial agreements to properly reflect the expectations of project, which include fixed and variable costs, lead-times, schedules, manufacturing capacities, etc.
  • Conduct regular technology reviews to Executive staff and management.
  • Own the supplier performance management of his/her respective commodities, which includes key delivery, quality, cost, and innovation metrics.
  • Act as the primary escalation for his/her respective commodity

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Proven leadership in driving and influencing other teams to a common goal.
  • 15+ years of experience in sourcing, engineering, manufacturing, and/or supply chain.
  • Domain expertise may include - power supply, motors, power absorbers, batteries, motor control boards, PCBAs, braking systems, cameras, lenses, and magnets.
  • Previous experience collaborating with Asian suppliers in the above related core competencies
  • Previously managed in excess of $500M in his/her commodities spend.
  • Strategic thinker, experienced putting together commodities strategy/roadmap with key engineering stakeholders.
  • Significant background with component demand-supply cycles with varied approaches in partnering with suppliers to ensure high demand-supply alignment in a volatile environment.
  • Well-versed in TCO analysis to ensure data-driven analytics tied to component and supplier selection, in a product-based ecosystem.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree. Advanced technical degree strongly preferred.

 

ABOUT PELOTON

Peloton is the largest interactive fitness platform in the world with a loyal community of more than 3 million Members. The company pioneered connected, technology-enabled fitness, and the streaming of immersive, instructor-led boutique classes for its Members anytime, anywhere. Peloton makes fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections that encourage its Members to be the best versions of themselves. An innovator at the nexus of fitness, technology, and media, Peloton has reinvented the fitness industry by developing a first-of-its-kind subscription platform that seamlessly combines the best equipment, proprietary networked software, and world-class streaming digital fitness and wellness content, creating a product that its Members love. The brand’s immersive content is accessible through the Peloton Bike, Peloton Tread, Peloton Bike+, Peloton Tread+, and Peloton App, which allows access to a full slate of fitness classes across disciplines, on any iOS or Android device, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku TVs, and Chromecast and Android TV. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton has a growing number of retail showrooms across the US, UK, Canada and Germany. For more information, visit www.onepeloton.com.

 

ABOUT PELOTON:

Peloton uses technology + design to connect the world through fitness, empowering people to be the best version of themselves anywhere, anytime. We have reinvented the fitness industry by developing a first-of-its-kind subscription platform. Seamlessly combining hardware, software, and streaming technology, we create digital fitness and wellness content and products that Members love. In 2020 Peloton committed to becoming an antiracist organization with the launch of the Peloton Pledge. Learn more, here.

“Together We Go Far” means that we are greater than the sum of our parts, stronger collectively when each one of us is at our best. In order to be the best version of Peloton, we are deeply committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive culture where all of our team members can be the best version of themselves. This work has no endpoint; it is the constant work of running an organization that strives to reach its full potential. As a first step in our commitment, we announced the Peloton Pledge to invest $100 million over the next four years to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world, and to promote health and wellbeing for all, from the inside out.

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