Director, Interconnect System Sourcing

NVIDIA is looking for a Director to lead our Global Interconnect System Sourcing Team including Connector, Cable & Optics for the products across multiple business units. NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing — with the GPU acting as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company.” We're looking to grow our company and build our teams with the smartest people in the world. Join us at the forefront of technological advancement.

What you’ll be doing:

This Interconnect System Group Director will be a transformative leader who can develop, deliver, and implement comprehensive commodity strategies. You are a recognized leader, with executive contacts throughout the industry, and have experience leading sourcing teams for various business segments. As a global commodity management professional, you demonstrate strong analytical skills to guide decisions, are highly collaborative and have both business acumen and technical experience in the Connector, Cable and Optics industry. You will have successfully transformed commodity management teams, led supplier engagements, and have provided outstanding value to other operations and engineering teams.

• Build a strategy and vision for NVIDIA's Connector, Cable, and Optics commodity management team. Incorporate internal and external ideas to establish a robust sourcing team.

• Collaborate with and build positive and productive relationships with Suppliers and internal functions to deliver top and bottom-line results

• Collaborate with and influence leaders across various cross-functional organizations, collaborators, suppliers on a regular basis; coordinate engagement with the entire ecosystem.

• Drive multi-year strategies and partnership engagement to support NVIDIA's fast growth business requirements

• Develop goals and objectives for the Connector, Cable and Optics commodity team that supports business needs. Provide ongoing development, coaching and performance management to the team and ensure a high level of performance.

What we need to see:

• 15+ overall years of strategic sourcing and high-tech industry experience or related field, 8+ years of management experience

• Extensive global sourcing leadership experience building and engaging global Connector, Cable and Optic partners

• BA / BS degree (Masters preferred), or equivalent experience

• Outstanding negotiation skills in executive supplier management

• Excellent communications and influencing skills working with engineering, finance, business units, and other supply chain functions

• High degree of integrity, initiative, and attention to detail

With competitive salaries and generous benefits packages, we are widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers; we have some of the most thoughtful and dedicated people working for us and, due to unparalleled growth, our best-in-class teams are rapidly growing. If you’re creative and autonomous with a real passion for your work, we want to hear from you!