# Strategic Sourcing Manager

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn't have imagined, and now, can't imagine living without. It's the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Description APPLE INC has the following available in Cupertino, California and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Develop and execute sourcing strategies to secure long term supply continuity. Recommend product innovations based on improving technologies; Track changes in buyer and suppliers within core material markets. Work closely with suppliers to negotiate optimal terms. Develop cost optimization strategies implemented at contract manufacturing locations. Work cross functionally with engineering; Efficiently run advanced excel simulations to identify potential supply risks that can affect product strategy. Benchmark supplier portfolio and execute understanding of manufacturing processes, cost impacts and market intelligence to influence sourcing decisions. Identify and scale new and existing manufacturing partners. Execut

- **Id**: 3821559
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-strategic-sourcing-manager-2>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cupertino, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T14:00:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T11:32:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5850
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Supply Chain, Operating Systems, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 824
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.214
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 122
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 216341
- **Max**: 246200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 246200

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Excel** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T17:23:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

## Liveness

- **Score**: 99
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.993
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 122
- **Reasons**: conf:1, urgency, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 246200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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