Electronic Sourcing Engineer II (Onsite)

The posting, as Axon wrote it

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Your Impact

Does the thought of finding ways to leverage technology to help others excite you? Do you enjoy transforming requirements into real products and helping to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical parties? The mission as the Electronics Sourcing Engineer is to build a world-class electronics supplier network for our products that can ensure continuity of supply and scale to support demand, provide cost reduction, and anticipate and mitigate supply chain risks. You will work throughout the product development lifecycle executing strategic projects to optimize commodities, sub-commodities and individual suppliers; executing detailed projects with suppliers to implement changes and improvements affecting quality, cost, capacity, risk, and sub-supplier management and to launch new products.

What You’ll Do

• Proactively communicate with the design engineering and product teams prior to and during the NPI development process to understand their current & future needs for new product components; influencing by leveraging industry experience.
• Work with the Electronics Category Managers on sourcing decisions that are aligned with their strategies. Seek cross-functional team agreement on discrepancies.
• Establish strong relationships with manufacturers and their associated representatives to understand product roadmaps and availability to support future product development.
• Work with the sourcing team to develop and ramp component sources for new products and support the NPI purchasing team’s efforts to ensure components are purchased in a timely manner for the different engineering builds.
• Lead RFX process with electronics supply base to establish costing for all electronic components.
• Own quarterly Material Spend Reporting.
• Assist the respective Category Managers and cross-functional category teams in developing and executing multi-dimensional commodity strategies that support the NPI work stream with an emphasis on cost optimization, time to market, technology, quality, supply continuity, supply chain consolidation, service and risk mitigation.
• Support negotiations of Axon pricing at the component level for electronics; partner with the category managers to develop and execute negotiation strategies with new product suppliers to achieve specific targets for pricing, service, quality & delivery. Ensure supplier awards for new business are leveraged in

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Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

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