Apple

Product Manager - Global Sourcing Solutions

Apple$130K — $155K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BEng/BA/BS degree required
  • 3+ years of experience in operations, data science, consulting, or investment banking
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and structured problem-solving
  • Fluency in Generative AI, especially LLM-based solutions
  • Outstanding influence skills across all organizational levels
  • Strong collaboration and alignment-building abilities
  • Excellent presentation skills with attention to detail
  • Experience in building and analyzing large, complex datasets

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-functional efforts to mitigate supply chain risks
  • Design AI tools to enhance supply chain efficiency
  • Synthesize insights for executive strategic decisions
  • Challenge assumptions using business judgment and supply chain knowledge
  • Analyze complex data to develop actionable strategies
  • Build datasets from imperfect data using programming and AI
  • Collaborate with engineers to develop and scale prototypes
  • Prepare briefings for critical supplier and partner engagements

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment
  • Opportunity to influence global supply chain decisions
  • Engagement with cutting-edge AI technologies
  • Career development opportunities within a leading tech company
  • Chance to work with talented teams across various domains
Full Job Description
As a Product Manager, you will shape the future of Apple's global supply chain. This role sits at the intersection of operations, geopolitics, and technology, looking across the supply chain and all lines of business to identify risks, uncover opportunities, and inform critical sourcing decisions. You'll partner closely with engineers, global supply managers, and other teams at Apple to bring your ideas to life and leverage AI to pull disparate data together, prototype rapidly, and scale what works.

This position requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, sound business judgment, the ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for executive leadership, and a talent for building win-win relationships that drive alignment among cross-functional partners.

Description

- Lead large cross-functional efforts to identify and mitigate emerging supply chain risks.

- Design the next generation of AI tools to help our supply chain move faster and smarter.

- Synthesize insights across teams to inform executive decision-making.

- Apply business judgment and supply chain expertise to challenge assumptions and ensure analyses reflect operational reality.

- Use sophisticated techniques to analyze complex supply chain data, develop actionable strategy, and drive execution.

- Build and refine datasets by sourcing imperfect data and joining complex relational tables using programming languages and AI, grounded in sound ETL and data-modeling principles.

- Partner with data and software engineers to define enhancement requirements, stand up functional proofs of concept, and turn prototypes into scalable, production-grade solutions.

- Prepare executive briefings ahead of critical engagements with suppliers, governments, and strategic partners.

- Partner with teams such as public relations, government affairs, trade, finance, and more.

Minimum Qualifications

BEng/BA/BS degree

3+ years of experience in operations, data science, consulting, or investment banking.

Comfortable with ambiguity and applying structured problem-solving.

Fluency in Generative AI (GenAI), including applying AI/LLM-based solutions to business problems.

Outstanding ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Strong collaborator with the ability to rally alignment across teams.

Knack for crafting compelling presentations and visuals with meticulous attention to detail.

Experience building and analyzing large, complex datasets to derive business insights.

Preferred Qualifications

Master'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.

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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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