Magna Forge & Foundry Supply Chain Manager

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Join Trend ‧ Join New Generation 趨勢科技 - 全球雲端資安領航者 / 全亞洲最大軟體公司 / 企業版圖橫跨五大洲 / 趨勢全球研發基地在台灣 =============================================================== Role Overview Magna Forge and Magna Foundry are the hardware product lines that underpin the Magna AI Platform — Forge delivers AI data center infrastructure, and Foundry delivers the AI-factory appliances and edge systems that customers deploy into production environments. Both depend on a tightly coordinated network of ODM and OEM partners. The Supply Chain Manager is the single owner of that vendor network: building it, running it, and making sure it delivers against the platform roadmap. The role sits inside the Magna Platform organization and is hardware-led, but is loosely coupled to the software side of the platform so that supply decisions stay aligned with product strategy, SKU evolution, and customer commitments. The Supply Chain Manager acts as the quarterback — driving the agenda and owning outcomes — while drawing on Legal for contract execution and the Platform leadership for product and commercial direction. Key Responsibilities Vendor & Partner Management • Own the ODM / OEM relationship portfolio across Forge and Foundry, from initial qualification through long-term partnership governance. • Build and maintain a resilient supplier base with appropriate redundancy across geographies, technology nodes, and component categories. • Run regular business reviews (QBRs, scorecards, escalation paths) with each strategic vendor; track performance against agreed KPIs. Sourcing, Pricing & Commercial Strategy • Drive sourcing strategy across servers, storage, networking, GPU systems, and AI-factory subsystems aligned to the Magna Forge / Foundry SKU roadmap. • Lead pricing negotiation on volume tiers, NRE, BOM cost, and total landed cost; benchmark continuously against market. • Model cost trajectories across product generations and feed insight back into platform pricing and SKU planning. Design Requirements & Technical Coordination • Translate platform, AIDC field, and customer requirements into clear ODM / OEM design specifications, project-tender responses, and ready-to-sell SKUs. • Coordinate hardware design reviews with ODM / OEM design centers — relying on the vendor engineering bench rather than an internal hardware engineering team — and ensure requirements are interpreted and delivered correctly. • Manage engineering change orders (ECOs), qualification cycles, and design hand-offs across the product lifecycle. Supply, Lead Time & Delivery Execution • Own supply commit and lead-time visibility across the partner network; surface risks early and drive mitigation plans. • Coordinate allocation and prioritization across competing internal projects and customer deployments. • Maintain delivery dashboards and provide a single source of truth on supply health for platform and exec stakeholders. Contracts, Terms & Negotiation • Lead negotiation of master agreements, SOWs, and renewal cycles with ODM / OEM partners, supported by Legal. • Define commercial terms covering pricing, lead times, SLAs, IP boundaries, warranty, and exit/transition provisions. • Maintain a contract register and ensure obligations on both sides are tracked, met, and reviewed on cadence. Maintenance, Support & Lifecycle • Govern post-deployment support arrangements with vendors — RMA flows, spares, field support, and escalation paths. • Manage product lifecycle transitions (NPI, sustaining, EOL) in coordination with platform PM and the AIDC Practice Owner. • Ensure quality and compliance gates are met at each lifecycle stage, working through vendor engineering and QA. Margin Analysis & Commercial Insight • Own margin analysis across Forge and Foundry SKUs — BOM cost, landed cost, channel margin, and total deal economics — and surface insight that drives pricing and SKU decisions. • Identify margin levers through vendor consolidation, component substitution, design simplification, and volume aggregation across projects. • Provide deal-level commercial support for major tenders, partnering with Finance and the AIDC Practice Owner to protect margin while winning the deal. Strategic Roadmap & Silicon Vendor Alignment • Maintain a rolling 18-month to 3-year strategic roadmap for Magna Forge and Magna Foundry, aligning hardware direction with platform strategy and customer demand signals. • Engage directly with silicon vendors — NVIDIA, Broadcom, Intel, AMD, and other accelerator and networking silicon providers — to align Magna's roadmap with their generational releases and supply trajectory. • Translate silicon and ODM / OEM roadmaps into Magna's product planning, so that next-generation Forge and Foundry SKUs are anticipated, sourced, and ready ahead of demand. • Act as the visionary supply-chain voice in platform roadmap discussions — looking past the immediate quarter to where hardware needs to be 18 to 36 months out. Cross-Functional Quarterbacking • Act as the single point of accountability for hardware supply chain matters across Forge and Foundry. • Partner closely with Legal on contract structuring and negotiation, with the Platform VP on commercial and strategic direction, and with the AIDC Practice Owner on field and customer requirements. • Loosely couple with the software / platform-services side of Magna AI to ensure hardware decisions support platform product direction Required Qualifications Experience • 8+ years in hardware supply chain, sourcing, or commodity management, with at least 3 years in a senior or quarterback-style role. • Direct experience managing ODM and/or OEM relationships in Taiwan and the broader Asia hardware ecosystem (Quanta, Inventec, Wistron, Foxconn, Gigabyte, Pegatron, or equivalents). • Track record in AI infrastructure, server, data center, or edge / industrial appliance categories — Dell PowerEdge-class systems, GPU servers, networking, or AI-factory hardware preferred. • Demonstrated success negotiating multi-million-dollar contracts, managing supply during constrained periods, and running multi-vendor portfolios. Skills & Capabilities • Strong commercial instincts — pricing, TCO, BOM cost modeling, negotiation leverage. • Technical literacy sufficient to engage credibly with hardware engineers and ODM design teams; able to read and challenge specifications. • Program management discipline — running multi-track vendor programs with clear milestones, dashboards, and risk surfacing. • Executive-grade communication — able to brief leadership concisely and represent Magna externally with senior vendor counterparts. • Bias for ownership — comfortable being the single accountable owner, pulling in stakeholders rather than waiting for direction. Language & Location • Fluent in English and Traditional Chinese (Mandarin) — written and spoken, both required for daily work with Magna leadership and Taiwan-based partners. • Based in Taiwan, with willingness to travel regionally to partner sites and occasional travel to HQ and customer locations. Preferred / Nice to Have • Experience in NVIDIA / GPU ecosystem sourcing or partnership management. • Familiarity with AI platform or AI factory product categories. • Prior exposure to enterprise software platform environments where hardware and software product strategy interact. • Background in NPI (new product introduction) and lifecycle management for complex hardware systems. =============================================================== 連結智慧 守護世界 --- Connected Intelligence for Securing a Connected World