Supply Chain Manager

Job description

Company Description

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista is a well-established and profitable company with over $9 billion in revenue. Arista’s award-winning platforms, ranging in Ethernet speeds up to 800G bits per second, redefine scalability, agility, and resilience.  Arista is a founding member of the Ultra Ethernet consortium. We have shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista is committed to open standards, and its products are available worldwide directly and through partners.

At Arista, we value the diversity of thought and perspectives each employee brings. We believe fostering an inclusive environment where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as the Great Place to Work Survey for Best Engineering Team and Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest quality and performance standards in everything we do.

Job Description

Who You’ll Work With

In this role, you will work closely with a global, cross-functional network across Asia, North America, and Europe, specifically partnering with Contract Manufacturers (CMs), Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs), and Direct Fulfillment (DF) teams. You will also collaborate internally with Global Supplier Management (GSM), New Product Introduction (NPI) supply chain teams, component suppliers, and key Arista stakeholders to ensure seamless supply chain execution.

What You’ll Do

Supply Chain Manager is responsible for ensuring continuity of supply, cost management, leading process improvements, material planning and execution. He/she will work closely with, Contract Manufacturing(CM), Direct Fulfillment (DF), Component suppliers, Global Supplier  Management(GSM), and new product introduction (NPI) Supply Chain teams. The ideal candidate will be excellent in leadership, communication, and collaborating cross functionally and partnering with CM/ODM.

• Purchase order management and execution, shipment tracking, delivery expedite.
• Develop and implement metrics with CM/ DF to ensure accountability and identifying performance improvement opportunities.
• Communication with critical stakeholders, coordination, and alignment with CM/ DF to support build plan.
• Partner with the CM/ DF, component suppliers and GSM managers on all identified material issues and resolve them by identifying the root cause and managing the corrective or recovery actions.
• Allocate components that are in short supply in a manner that maximizes revenue, minimizes impacts to key performance indicators, and minimizes escalations from customers.
• Ensure cost is competitive while meeting other priority goals such as quality and delivery.
• Oversee Excess and Obsolete (E&O) activity from CM/ DF, recommend critical courses of action to management, and own efforts to mitigate liability to Arista.
• Support business critical events such as cycle count, physical inventory & quarter ends. This may occasionally require work during weekends and holidays.
   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in supply chain, business, economics, finance or a related field.
• 5 years of progressive supply chain operations experience, preferably with material management experience in a high-tech operations environment. Ideally candidates hold min 5 years of OEM experience. 
• Track record of delivering excellence in projects
• Program management, communication, negotiating and influencing experience with a track record of achieving solid business results.
• Ability to work in a dynamic & ambiguous fast-paced environment.
• Top notch data management skill. Excellent in compiling and analyzing large data in excel.
• Self-motivated, experienced working as part of a global, cross-functional team who are located in Asia, North America & Europe time zones. Must be able to occasionally work outside of standard Malaysia business hours.
• Strong relationship management skills.
• Travel ~10% a year

Additional Information

Arista stands out as an engineering-centric company. Our leadership, including founders and engineering managers, are all engineers who understand sound software engineering principles and the importance of doing things right.

We hire globally into our diverse team. At Arista, engineers have complete ownership of their projects. Our management structure is flat and streamlined, and software engineering is led by those who understand it best. We prioritize the development and utilization of test automation tools.

Our engineers have access to every part of the company, providing opportunities to work across various domains. Arista is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with development offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, and the US. We consider all our R&D centers equal in stature.

Join us to shape the future of networking and be part of a culture that values invention, quality, respect, and fun.