The Global Supply Manager for Contract Manufacturing within the Data Center Infrastructure organization will own Anthropic’s relationship with contract manufacturers and ODMs that build servers, racks, and accelerator systems. The role involves negotiating and structuring commercial agreements, designing SLA frameworks, forecasting demand, ensuring production and inventory commitments, and coordinating with internal teams to align manufacturing with deployment schedules.
Global Supply Manager - Contract Manufacturing at Anthropic
Remote - United States
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USD 320,000 - 405,000
Requirements
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in supply management, supply chain, or manufacturing operations with direct ownership of a contract manufacturer or ODM relationship
- Owned a CM/ODM relationship through both a commercial negotiation cycle and a production ramp
- Structured and negotiated manufacturing agreements: SOWs, pricing models, SLAs, and inventory liability terms
- Owned build plans, forecast commitments, and on‑time delivery for products built at a manufacturing partner site
- Rigorous with data: comfortable running scorecards, verifying partner reported numbers, and using both to drive decisions
- Comfortable working cross‑functionally and led engineering, finance, supply chain and operations teams to decision
- Communicate clearly in writing and produce artifacts senior stakeholders can act on without follow‑up
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience
Responsibilities
- Help structure and negotiate CM/ODM commercial agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, pricing and NRE models, liability and flexibility terms, with clear measurable performance obligations
- Design the SLA/SLO framework and vendor scorecard for the manufacturing relationship, and oversee governance cadence
- Share demand forecasts with partner and convert them into committed capacity build plans aligned to deployment schedule
- Ensure builds are scheduled against deployment need dates and hold partner to committed volumes and on‑time output
- Ensure partner maintains adequate materials and buffer inventory on site to protect the build plan
- Verify partner billing against contracted rates, actual output, and approved NRE, and resolve discrepancies before invoices are approved
- Escalate performance issues through partner’s management chain with data, and own corrective actions through closure
- Coordinate with product engineering, manufacturing engineering, supply chain, and deployment operations to keep factory commitments aligned with downstream plans
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