Oura Director, Mechanical Sourcing at Oura leads global mechanical sourcing strategy and execution across multiple regions. The role involves managing teams, supplier relationships, and aligning sourcing with product roadmaps.
Responsibilities
Set the global mechanical sourcing strategy
Define and execute a multi-year global mechanical sourcing strategy aligned to Oura’s product roadmap, margin goals, quality standards, launch plans, resilience requirements, and manufacturing footprint.
Set supplier architecture across regions, technologies, and production stages, including preferred suppliers, second sources, geographic diversification, and capability-development priorities.
Create or iterate category strategies for key mechanical commodities such as CNC, injection molding, stamping, MIM, die casting, surface finishing, coatings, structural components, die cuts, softgoods, and related packaging categories where applicable.
Translate market conditions, technology developments, supplier capacity, geopolitical exposure, and cost drivers into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
Build a global mechanical sourcing roadmap that aligns priorities, supplier architecture, and tradeoffs across regions, building on existing strategies and processes while closing the observed gaps.
Lead and develop the global team
Lead the global mechanical sourcing organization through its existing leaders, aligning regional priorities and setting clear outcomes and decision rights across regions, commodities, programs, and supplier relationships.
Set a high bar for performance, decision quality, communication, and follow-through while creating an environment where people can do their best work.
Build and execute development plans for managers and individual contributors, including coaching, feedback, career paths, succession planning, and opportunities for expanded scope.
Assess organizational capability and capacity against Oura’s product roadmap; hire, structure, and develop the team as the business grows.
Set a common operating cadence with consistent mechanisms for strategy reviews, supplier performance, risk escalation, negotiation planning, and executive updates.
Qualification
Experience in consumer electronicsExperience owning category strategyStrong analytical skillsStrong understanding of DFMThe judgment to balance costExperience with packagingExperience with supplier developmentThis is a hybrid role
Required
We would love to have you on our team if you have:
12+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, supply chain, operations, manufacturing, or a related field, with significant experience in mechanical components and assemblies.
Experience leading global sourcing teams across multiple regions, including managing effectively through leaders, developing direct reports, and building strong, accountable teams.
Deep experience with mechanical manufacturing processes such as CNC, injection molding, stamping, MIM, die casting, surface finishing, adhesives, die cuts, softgoods, or related technologies.
Experience in consumer electronics, wearables, medical devices, or another product business with complex, miniaturized hardware.
Experience owning category strategy, supplier architecture, and day-to-day supplier execution.
Strong analytical skills, including should-cost modeling, cost-driver analysis, supplier benchmarking, financial analysis, scenario planning, and total-cost-of-ownership evaluation.
A proven record of leading complex negotiations with supplier and contract manufacturing executives across cost, tooling, capacity, quality, liability, and long-term commercial terms.
Experience supporting multiple concurrent NPI programs through development, ramp, mass production, and sustaining, with a track record of personally engaging in critical operating issues when the business needs it.
Strong understanding of DFM, supplier qualification, manufacturing readiness, quality systems, supply continuity planning, and the operational and commercial escalation paths needed to keep NPI programs moving.
Executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex data and tradeoffs into clear recommendations and decisions.
The judgment to balance cost, quality, schedule, resilience, innovation, customer experience, and business value.
Preferred
Experience leading mechanical sourcing for wearables, smart devices, or other high-volume consumer hardware.
Experience working across both European and US-based engineering, sourcing, and supplier organizations.
Experience with packaging, finishing, coatings, adhesives, softgoods, or other adjacent mechanical categories.
Experience with supplier development, value engineering, design-to-cost, or manufacturing process innovation.
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field. A master’s degree is a plus.
This is a hybrid role
The candidate should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to come into the office regularly. This role will work closely with colleagues in Finland and other global locations.
