Apple

Senior Manager - Global Supply Management, Strategic Raw Materials

Apple$130K — $180K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years leading high-performing supply chain teams
  • 12+ years in supply chain development or strategic sourcing
  • Expertise in metal or raw material supply chains including aluminum and titanium
  • BS in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
  • Willingness to travel internationally up to 25%

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team managing strategic raw material supply chains
  • Own supplier relationships from sourcing through manufacturing integration
  • Drive commercial strategy and operational excellence globally
  • Shape Apple's manufacturing strategy for strategic raw materials
  • Engage with global manufacturing and material partners at the executive level

Benefits

  • Opportunity to impact Apple's core product lines
  • Participation in high-level executive negotiations
  • Chance to work at the intersection of various key departments
  • Exposure to complex global supply chain dynamics
  • Development opportunities in a leading tech company
Full Job Description
The Senior Manager of Global Supply Management for Strategic Raw Materials leads one of Apple's most complex supply chain organizations, spanning titanium, aluminum, metal powders for additive manufacturing, and rare earth elements at the heart of Apple's magnet supply chains. This portfolio touches virtually every Apple product, across a supply base of significant global breadth and complexity and focuses on enabling Apple's mechanical enclosure parts supply chain.

This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of commercial strategy, supplier development, and executive engagement - both inside Apple and with its most critical global manufacturing and material partners.

Description

You will lead a team of high-performing Global Supply Managers responsible for Apple's most strategic raw material supply chains. Your organization owns supplier relationships from upstream sourcing through manufacturing partner integration - driving commercial strategy, supply resilience, and operational excellence across a truly global supply base. Your team enables the materials which are at the heart of many of Apple's most important mechanical enclosure parts across all lines of business.

A defining dimension of this role is shaping Apple's global manufacturing strategy for strategic raw materials - partnering with suppliers and internal stakeholders to develop domestic supply capabilities that are resilient, cost-competitive, and aligned with Apple's long-term product roadmap.

This leader engages Apple's most strategic manufacturing and material partners at the executive level, and operates with influence across Engineering, Industrial Design, Product Design, Operations, Planning, Finance, and Supply Quality. Great leaders in this organization are equally at home in a board-level commercial negotiation, on a supplier factory floor, and in a cross-functional product review.

Minimum Qualifications

7+ years of management experience leading high-performing supply chain, sourcing, or engineering teams

12+ years in supply chain development, strategic sourcing, supplier management, or a strong engineering background in materials or advanced manufacturing

Deep hands-on knowledge of metal or raw material supply chains - including one or more of: aluminum, titanium, steel, rare earth elements, magnet supply chains, or metal powder/additive manufacturing

BS in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent technical degree

Ability to travel internationally up to 25%

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated experience managing supplier relationships at the executive level and negotiating major commercial agreements

Proven track record of building and developing high-performing teams in a global, cross-functional environment

Outstanding commercial negotiation skills - strategic in framing, rigorous in preparation, and confident under pressure

Executive-level communication skills - crisp, credible, and calibrated to every audience, from factory floor to Apple's most senior leadership

Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across engineering, design, operations, and finance without direct authority

Experience leading supply chain resiliency programs, including risk assessment, scenario planning, and executive-level reporting

Ability to operate fluidly across long-range strategic thinking and granular operational execution

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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