Category Sourcing Manager(Optical Components)
TE Connectivity · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 49d ago
Undisclosed10–15 yrsfulltimeSourced from
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About this role
At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.
Job Overview
Provides subject matter expertise in strategic sourcing and procurement across complex and high-impact categories. Owns category strategies, leads advanced negotiations, and influences enterprise stakeholders to deliver long-term value, innovation, and supply resilience.
Job Requirements
- Driving advanced supplier negotiations and complex contracting strategies.
- Embedding compliance, regulatory, and sustainability requirements into sourcing and contracting decisions.
- Leading enterprise or multi-region category strategies across direct and indirect spend.
- Partnering with engineering and business leaders to enable early supplier involvement and innovation.
- Evaluating supplier proposals, negotiating commercial terms, and ensuring governance adherence.
- Identifying and mitigating supply, cost, and geopolitical risks through proactive sourcing strategies.
What your background should look like
- 10 yearsExperience working in a global/region commodity role in a multinational company.
- 5 years of Optical related
- Ability to understand global markets, collaborate effectively with global teams, and experience in working with suppliers in the Asia-Pacific region and Global
- Understanding of optical transceivers, optical components, CPO, optics passive fiber connectivity, Silicon photonics, Lasers (EML, Vcsel etc) and fiber interfaces
- optical transmission, optical jumpers,Components used in AI/accelerated computing interconnects.
- Solid understanding of highspeed optical transceiver architecture: optics chain, fiber interfaces and optical budgets.
- Knowledge of optical devices and materials:
Competencies
ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.
Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at and on , , and
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Skills
PLCFiberStrategic SourcingopticsTransportationSubject MatterArchitectureProcurementcomplianceArtificial Intelligence
About TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity
Electronics Manufacturing
1.2k+
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1941
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Bangalore / Bengaluru, Karnataka
India
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TE Connectivity specializes in connectivity and sensing solutions, emphasizing sustainability and reliability to address the needs of various industries.
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