As Supply Chain Manager, North America Mobile Robotics, you will be responsible for developing and improving the strategic relationships with key suppliers such as contract manufacturers. This includes negotiating strategic agreements, managing, and improving supplier performance, forecasting and planning, cost control, and overall supply chain management. This role is dependent on close collaboration with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and other cross-functional teams. During the product life cycle, you are responsible for ensuring these key suppliers are prepared to support the delivery of key parts on-time at specified quality, and yield parameters and are prepared to meet the ramp quantities, and at the right cost. It is the Supply Chain Manager’s primary objective to ensure suppliers meet or exceed commercial and technical requirements throughout the life cycle of the product(s).