Global Materials & Supply Chain Manager

Amphenol Communications Solutions (ACS), a division of Amphenol Corporation, is a world leader in interconnect solutions for Communications, Mobile, RF, Optics, and Commercial electronics markets. Amphenol Corporation is one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of electrical, electronic, and fiber optic connectors and interconnect systems, antennas, sensors, sensor-based products, and coaxial and high-speed specialty cable. ACS has an expansive global presence in research and development, manufacturing, and sales, designing and manufacturing a wide range of innovative connectors and cable assemblies for diverse applications including server, storage, data center, mobile, RF, networking, industrial, business equipment, and automotive.

Amphenol High Speed Products Group is the market leader for high-speed, high-bandwidth electrical connectors for the Telecom/Datacom market (Mobile Networks, Storage, Servers, Routers, Switches, etc.). Our products help enable the electronics revolution and remain a key enabler for all major Tier 1 OEMs globally.

About the role

The Global Materials & Supply Chain Manager will lead overall supply chain, procurement, and planning for the Mezzanine business unit, supporting manufacturing sites in Penang, Malaysia; Mexicali, Mexico; and Valley Green, PA. This role is responsible for supplier performance and delivery execution, component capacity planning, and operational planning for the growing business. The manager will oversee buying and planning functions, global materials support, U.S. tariffs and trade compliance, and on-time delivery execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global materials organization, focusing on supplier capacity and production.
• Drive continuous improvement in business processes related to forecasting and translating production demand to suppliers.
• Support internal component delivery performance between sister sites and ensure visibility within the ERP system.
• Respond to and resolve customer expedites and supply chain challenges.
• Collaborate daily with Operations, New Product Introduction (NPI), Project Management, and Product Management to meet schedules and commitments.
• Lead supplier performance metrics: PPV (Purchase Price Variance), On-Time Delivery, and factory delinquency.
• Coordinate with logistics and trade compliance teams to ensure all supply chain activities comply with governmental, industry regulations, and company policies; maintain proper documentation for audits.
• Track and analyze global tariff impacts on supply chain operations, ensuring changes are identified, communicated, and addressed to minimize costs and risks.
• Provide leadership to a team of direct reports in customer service, buying, planning, and supply chain.
• Ensure optimal material availability based on analysis of customer forecasts, reports, history, and capacity planning tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Management, Supply Chain, Business, or Logistics.
• 8+ years of experience in Production Planning, Purchasing, Supply Chain, and MRP.
• 3+ years of leadership and supervisory experience.
• Background in manufacturing processes at the component level—connector production (stamping, molding, plating, assembly) is a benefit.
• Strong background in Excel and ERP systems.
• Experience dealing with global suppliers across all regions.
• Capacity planning along with short- and long-term forecasting across BOMs.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities across technical and business functions.
• Experience with high-speed connectors such as board-to-board, cable-to-board, backplane, or mezzanine systems.

Travel

Able to travel domestically and internationally as required.