Product Manager I

Position: Product Manager I

Location: North Reading, MA 01864

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Pay Rate: $ 57.7-57.7/ Hr

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a global technology leader that is transforming the way people shop, consume content, and interact with digital services. With a strong presence across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, the company is known for its customer-centric approach, innovation-driven culture, and large-scale global impact. It continues to invest in building products and services that improve everyday life while supporting businesses, communities, and economies worldwide.

Job Description:

• Oversee supply chain initiatives for assigned products, working cross-functionally with sourcing, planning, product, and engineering teams to balance commercial and technical trade-offs.
• A successful candidate will leverage experience in global supply chain management, and a self-driven approach to achieving sustained operational excellence and cost optimization.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with supply chain teams to identify and drive sustaining operational improvement (cost, lead time, risk management) and seamless execution of programs through sustaining phases
• Act as a single point of contact for program resources to communicate supply chain decisions and progress, provide feedback on supply chain implications of program decisions and changes.
• Synthesize inputs from Sourcing, Planning, Logistics, Engineering, and Finance to create balanced recommendations that drive operational excellence, cost reduction targets, and supply chain resilience
• Execute cost reduction roadmaps measuring total cost of ownership including spares, service, replacements, tariffs, and logistics impacts
• Own lead time optimization analysis with clear reduction roadmaps and transparent reporting
• Maintain ownership of supply chain requirements throughout GA and end-of-life phases
• Coordinate cross functional implementation for post-launch design changes (ECOs)
• Drive root cause analysis and process improvements that prevent future occurrences, ensuring sustained operational excellence across the product lifecycle

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, or related field
• 3 years of experience in product operations, strategic sourcing, commodity management, or planning in electromechanical commodities
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder supply chain initiatives in sustained operations
• Strong analytical skills with ability to synthesize data from multiple sources into actionable insights
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority (matrix management)
• Experience with supplier relationship management and performance tracking
• Knowledge of global hardware and electromechanical supply chains

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in robotics, electromechanical systems, or similar technology-intensive industries
• Background in both NPI (New Product Introduction) and sustained operations supply chain management
• 5 years of experience in strategic sourcing, commodity management, or product operations management with direct responsibility in multiple commodities (electromechanical, metals, plastics, ICs, etc)
• Advanced degree (MBA, MS in Supply Chain Management, or Engineering)
• Experience with ERP systems (Oracle, SAP) and PLM tools (Agile)
• Demonstrated success in cost reduction and lead time optimization initiatives
• Experience with scenario planning and risk mitigation in complex supply chains
• Knowledge of tariff management and trade compliance
• Strong presentation and executive communication skills
• Experience with Product Development Process (PDP) frameworks
• High degree of autonomy in decision-making with clear judgment on when to escalate versus resolve independently

About role:

• What makes this role interesting? Ground-floor opportunity building a new supply chain organization managing client-level scale across robotics and automation.
• Team culture: Cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision-making, ownership and aspiration for process standardization over firefighting, and bar-raising Bias for Action and Ownership.
• Competitive market comparison: Amazon Robotics scale — managing 30 product lines across robotics, electromechanical systems, and automation at unmatched industrial automation innovation.
• Unique selling points: Single-threaded ownership of end-to-end product supply chain strategy spanning cost, lead time, supplier performance, and risk management. Daily visibility to Director leadership.
• Value added / experience gained: Exposure to industry leading AI-powered analytics and cross-functional leadership, and multi million dollar savings projects.

KPI’s:

• Cost savings pipelined and achieved
• Lead time reduction
• Material on time delivery

Leadership Principles:

• Ownership
• Bias for Actions

Top 3 must-have hard skills:

Strategic Sourcing / Commodity Management Exposure —

• Experience managing or collaborating on sourcing strategies, supplier negotiations, cost reduction roadmaps, and second-source qualifications across electromechanical commodities.
• In the absence of direct managing supplier relationship, explicit examples of directly contributing to such strategies is required

Supply Chain Planning & Lead Time Optimization —

• Ability to drive lead time reduction, scenario planning, clear-to-build/deploy shortage resolution, and capacity alignment with demand forecasts.

Data Analytics & Reporting —

• Strong analytical skills to synthesize data from multiple sources (cost, supplier readiness, quality, lead time) into actionable insights and consolidated performance reporting.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.