ABOUT SIMPLISAFE

We’re a high-tech home security company that’s passionate about protecting the life you’ve built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And we’ve created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career you’re building. Ours is a no ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect. We don’t just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here.
We’re embracing a hybrid work model that enables our teams to split their time between office and home. Hybrid for us means we expect our teams to come together in our state-of-the-art office on two core days, typically Tuesday and Wednesday, to work together in person, and teams can choose where they work for the remainder of the week. We all benefit from flexibility and get to use the best of both worlds to get our work done.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the supplier relationship management and performance of mechanical/electro-mechanical component suppliers to include batteries, speakers, molded plastics and other sub-assemblies
• Strategic thinking to develop longer-range supply strategies and plans that drive significant value while meeting the business requirements
• Be a gateway of innovation from our supply base into SimpliSafe engineering teams to leverage industry to gain us leading edge technology for our new design concepts
• Partner with internal Engineering, Product Management, Quality, and Manufacturing teams to develop strategies that drive improvement throughout the product life cycle.
• Own cost for your commodity including managing the ideation of proposed cost improvement, resource allocations to support, and product lifecycle data management (Propel).
• Negotiate and manage part costs, including NRE, associated with new product introduction
• Negotiate component assurance and compliance to product specifications and legal standards
• Work with legal team on manufacturing service agreements and ensure contract compliance
• Identify potential new suppliers and manage supplier assessment, audits, and oversee qualifications
• Develop, implement, and lead supplier selection process (including RFI/RFQ/RFP) for new mechanical/electro-mechanical component suppliers and other Tier 2 commodity suppliers
• The comprehensive cost analysis of how components are manufactured
• Lead executive-level business reviews with critical partners at appropriate cadence
• Align with manufacturing partners to best leverage external capabilities, and improve ordering/buffering requirements while preventing supply risks and improving flexibility of supply
• Ensure appropriate leveraging of geo-diversification of supply base and multi source strategies to mitigate supply risk, and ensure appropriate competitive leverage within the supply base
• Establish end-to-end partner performance measurements and scorecards and hold partners accountable to continually improve cost, quality, lead time and service to both SimpliSafe and our contract manufacturing partners