Job Description
Job Title:  Category Sourcing Manager(Optical Components)
Posting Start Date:  8/31/26


At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. 

Job Description: 

Job Overview

Provides subject matter expertise in strategic sourcing and procurement across complex and high-impact categories. Owns category strategies, leads advanced negotiations, and influences enterprise stakeholders to deliver long-term value, innovation, and supply resilience.

Job Requirements

  • Driving advanced supplier negotiations and complex contracting strategies.
  • Embedding compliance, regulatory, and sustainability requirements into sourcing and contracting decisions.
  • Leading enterprise or multi-region category strategies across direct and indirect spend.
  • Partnering with engineering and business leaders to enable early supplier involvement and innovation.
  • Evaluating supplier proposals, negotiating commercial terms, and ensuring governance adherence.
  • Identifying and mitigating supply, cost, and geopolitical risks through proactive sourcing strategies.

 

What your background should look like

  • 10 years’ Experience working in a global/region commodity role in a multinational company.
  • 5 years of Optical related
  • Ability to understand global markets, collaborate effectively with global teams, and experience in working with suppliers in the Asia-Pacific region and Global
  • Understanding of optical transceivers, optical components, CPO, optics passive fiber connectivity, Silicon photonics, Lasers (EML, Vcsel etc) and fiber interfaces
  • optical transmission, optical jumpers,Components used in AI/accelerated computing interconnects.
  • Solid understanding of high‑speed optical transceiver architecture: optics chain, fiber interfaces and optical budgets.
  • Knowledge of optical devices and materials:

Competencies

ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more.

Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries. In a world that is racing ahead, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, WeChat, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

 

Job Locations:

Doraisanipalya, J.P Nagar, 4th Phase, Bannerghatta Road
Bangalore, Karnātaka 560076
India

Posting City:  Bangalore
Job Country:  India
Travel Required:  10% to 25%
Requisition ID:  157684
Workplace Type:  Onsite
External Careers Page:  Procurement