Apple

Manager, Global Sourcing & Supply Management (GSSM)

Apple$130K — $180K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 8+ years in supply chain design, procurement negotiation, and operations
  • 5+ years of management experience
  • Strong track record in procurement and supply chain
  • MBA or M.S. degree preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead team in strategic planning and negotiations
  • Coach and mentor junior team members
  • Cultivate relationships with key suppliers
  • Support high-complexity deal negotiations
  • Formulate and execute substrate supply chain strategies
  • Utilize AI tools to manage increasing project complexity
  • Anticipate market risks for proactive sourcing solutions

Benefits

  • Coaching and mentorship opportunities
  • Exposure to advanced substrate technologies
  • Involvement in high-stakes negotiations
  • Collaboration with engineering and finance teams
  • Dynamic market engagement through risk management tactics
Full Job Description
Manager, Global Sourcing & Supply Management (GSSM)
Apple is seeking a Manager, GSSM to lead a team that manages strategic planning, long term deal structuring and negotiations. This position requires the ability to work with procurement, engineering, finance and legal teams and also third-party suppliers. Position requires strong quantitative and analytical skills, critical thinking, and ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.

- Team Development: Coach and mentor junior individual contributors to accelerate their onboarding across Apple-specific processes, supplier ecosystems, and stakeholder expectations. - Operational Continuity: The combined portfolio demands consistent senior oversight to cultivate deep relationships with substrate, resin, and raw material suppliers, drive negotiations, maintain execution quality, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks across concurrent work streams. - Industry Expertise : Develop advanced substrate technology expertise including FCBGA, Cored, Coreless, Hybrid, and HBS. - Complex Deal Support: The manager will lead or directly support high-complexity negotiations (new supplier MSAs, novel deal structures, long term strategic capex investments). - Strategic Initiatives: Formation and execution of substrate supply chain strategy to advance team wide priorities including cost modeling, new supplier development, and emerging technology investigations through deep engineering collaboration. - Scalability: As Gen AI capabilities advance, leverage AI Agents and tools to keep up with increasing complexity and growing business needs without degrading quality or understanding. - Business continuity planning : Continuously see around corners by anticipating potential risks and establishing sourcing criteria to proactively mitigate risks in a dynamic market environment.

Bachelors' degree Minimum of 8 years of experience in supply chain design and optimization, supplier sourcing and procurement negotiation, supply management and operations, cost modeling and financial analysis 5+ years of management experience

Strong procurement/supply chain experience with a proven track record of success MBA or M.S. degree a plus

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

Apple Careers

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Learn more about Apple
Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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