Category Sourcing Manager - Optical Components

Job Overview:

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. This role provides subject matter expertise in strategic sourcing and procurement across complex and high-impact categories. You will own category strategies, lead advanced negotiations, and influence 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 years of experience working in a global or region commodity role in a multinational company.

- 5 years of experience in optical components.

- Ability to understand global markets, collaborate effectively with global teams, and experience in working with suppliers in the Asia-Pacific region and globally.

- Understanding of optical transceivers, optical components, CPO, optics passive fiber connectivity, Silicon photonics, Lasers (EML, Vcsel etc) and fiber interfaces.

- Experience with optical transmission, optical jumpers, and components used in AI accelerated computing interconnects.

- Solid understanding of high-speed optical transceiver architecture: optics chain, fiber interfaces and optical budgets.

- Knowledge of optical devices and materials.