Global Supply Manager, Exterior Lighting

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We are seeking a Staff Global Supply Manager to lead the commercial strategy and supplier execution for exterior lighting systems. This is a high-visibility individual contributor role with broad ownership across sourcing, negotiation, supplier management, product development, launch, and ongoing cost performance. The successful candidate will bring significant automotive lighting purchasing experience, operate with a high degree of autonomy, and work as an embedded commercial partner to a fast-moving engineering team.

A technical background in lighting systems, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, optics, or manufacturing is highly desirable.

• Own the global sourcing and commercial strategy for exterior lighting components and systems, including headlamps, rear combination lamps, center high-mounted stop lamps, auxiliary lamps, and related electronics, modules, tooling, and engineering services.
• Act as the lead commercial interface between suppliers and cross-functional partners in Engineering, Supplier Quality, Finance, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Program Management.
• Embed with the engineering team to influence supplier selection, design-to-cost decisions, technical trade-offs, sourcing timing, and program execution from concept through launch and series production.
• Develop sourcing strategies, lead RFQ activities, analyze complex supplier quotations, build fact-based cost models, and present clear sourcing and negotiation recommendations to senior leadership.
• Lead commercial negotiations covering piece price, tooling, engineering and development costs, capital investment, intellectual property, warranty, capacity, productivity, and contractual terms.
• Apply lighting-specific market knowledge and should-cost analysis to identify cost drivers and challenge supplier assumptions related to optics, electronics, LEDs, PCBs, thermal management, housings, lenses, coatings, assembly, testing, and tooling.
• Identify, evaluate, and develop a competitive global supply base capable of meeting demanding requirements for technology, quality, cost, capacity, timing, and launch readiness.
• Own supplier relationships and commercial performance, including executive engagement, escalation management, recovery plans, claims resolution, engineering changes, and continuous cost improvement.
• Drive prototype and production part availability, tooling readiness, capacity confirmation, and commercial closure in support of development builds and production launch milestones.
• Anticipate commercial and supply risks, develop mitigation plans, and independently resolve ambiguous or time-critical issues while maintaining alignment with internal stakeholders.
• Create concise, decision-oriented updates for leadership and represent Supply Chain in high-visibility…