Oversee Japanese localization of global marketing websites and email campaigns, prioritize concurrent projects, direct vendors, and improve automated production workflows and digital processes.
About this role
The Global Sourcing and Supply Manager is an operations and supply chain role focused on a specific commodity. It sits at the interface between Apple’s Worldwide Operations Team, strategic suppliers, and contract manufacturers, connecting the work of those groups with the wider Apple supply chain. The role is positioned around commodity-focused supply coordination and initiative management across organizational boundaries.
The position manages strategic and tactical initiatives for its assigned commodity. Its work involves coordinating supply-chain activity among internal operations stakeholders, suppliers, and manufacturing partners, with responsibility spanning both longer-term initiatives and practical execution. The posting places the role within operations and supply chain management and identifies commodity management and data analysis as relevant areas of the work. The core remit is to keep the participating groups aligned around the assigned commodity and its place in the overall supply chain.
The stated minimum qualification is a BS/BA degree. Other capabilities appear under a preferred-qualifications section, so they are not presented here as minimum gates for applying.
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