Commercial Engineering Lead, NPI

The Sourcing Engineer Lead will lead a small, high-performing team in executing sourcing initiatives. As a lead, leverage extensive experience in negotiating and securing strategic commercial agreements with demonstrated success in driving cost savings and enhancing supply chain flexibility through high-impact negotiations that support manufacturing scale-up and long-term operational goals.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Leverage robust negotiation experience to secure strategic supplier agreements, ensuring favorable terms that support scalable manufacturing operations and drive cost-efficiency.
• Develop and lead supplier selection for specific products using our approved supplier list and/or identify new partners
• Collaborate and lead the partnership with strategic suppliers and internal stakeholders to accelerate product development through:
• Concept scoping for rapid requirement validation
• Feature trade-off analysis and trade tables
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modeling
• Joint design development under clear statements of work
• Simulation of mechanical & electronics designs
• Driving and owning the outcome of commercial negotiations with internal stakeholders such as program management and legal personnel
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies using market insights, supplier rationalisation, and commodity pricing plans across all product lines
• Lead and drive cost engineering efforts to converge cost models with product targets while maximizing TCO.
• Collaboratively drive on-time availability of NPI component procurement and ensure suppliers execute their manufacturing scale-up plans effectively by monitoring progress, enforcing quality standards, and coordinating closely to meet target timelines.
• Lead and own complete BOM risk assessments and implement mitigation plans.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to reduce complexity of supply chain through commonality optimisation & component/supplier rationalisation.
• Lead all cost engineering activities to converge the bottoms-up cost curve to product cost, maximizing the total cost of ownership (TCO) across the product lifecycle.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Extensive experience in negotiating and securing strategic commercial agreements with demonstrated success in driving cost savings and enhancing supply chain flexibility through high-impact negotiations that support manufacturing scale-up and long-term operational goals.
• Ideally has background within:
• Design & development of mechanical and/or electronics devices
• Advanced sourcing activities, including positions working as a commodity/sourcing manager
• Supplier development (technology, process, supply chain, etc.)
• Early supplier engagement, ahead of product/engineering requirement realisation
• Domain expertise must include value/procurement engineering or TCO-related work at the component & product level
• Familiarity with developing high-tech products in a high-mix, low-volume environment
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BSME, BSEE) or other related technical degree.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian NV2 clearance