Supply Chain Manager

In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise.

• Effectively lead and manage supplier relationships.
• Leads supply chain management initiatives on lead time reduction, cost reduction, value engineering, quality, reliability, and OTD.
• Understand company business requirements, market dynamics and trends, supply base and supply base capabilities.
• Provide sophisticated problem resolution and cross functional support for supplier escalations and supply disruptions, by expediting supply recovery. Including creation of and report outs of executive summaries and presentations to senior management.
• Partner with manufacturing to perform capacity analysis to support what-if scenarios, forecast changes, planning for production growth, and growth in spares business to support worldwide install base of tools.
• Performs continuity of supply risk assessment and develops/implements mitigation strategies.
• Develop supply plans for constrained and long-lead-time components.
• Partner with manufacturing, design engineering, and manufacturing design engineering to ensure KLA and/or supplier-initiated supply chain relocations are successful.
• Drive assessment of raw parts cost, supplier quality, supplier capability and capacity (ramp-up / ramp-down), and supplier consolidation.
• Perform assessments and make recommendations related to inventory forecasting, timing of inventory receipts, excess and obsolete optimization / reduction, and order quantity optimization.
• Collaborates with production planning, supply chain, and master scheduling teams to propose supply chain solutions and strategic or tactical plans, drawing on business data, commodity insights, and product expertise.
• Implement, manage and coordinate supplier contracts, SOWs, SLAs, NDAs and any other required supplier agreements.
• Lead, co-ordinate and manage supplier business reviews. Continually drive improvements based on gap analysis against business requirements.
• Lead, develop, build and deploy supplier scorecards.
• Drives corporate and divisional initiatives to achieve performance targets.
• Crafts, implement and/or drives industry and company supply chain best practices.
• Ensure adherence to corporate supply chain management best practices, policies, procedures and internal / external compliance requirements.

• 7 years of experience in supply chain operations and supply chain improvements in complex manufacturing environment.
• strong preference for experience in semiconductor equipment industry or other complex, high-mix, low-volume products.
• Experience with multiple aspects of advanced supply chain operations, including:
  Supply and demand management effectiveness (upturn and downturns), material hedging strategies, product transition management, and obsolescence.
• Strong leadership, negotiation and people management skills.
• Lead thru curiosity and continuous improvements.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• High proficiency in MS Excel.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI or other business intelligence/analytical tools/services is a plus.
• Experience with SAP ERP system is a plus.
• Must enjoy a challenging and fast paced environment and be curious.
• Ability to effectively deal with ambiguity, identify gaps, and implement innovative solutions to increase operational efficiency.
• Self-driven, independent, yet a strong team player.
• Creative, innovative, and resourceful with a passion for speed, agility, simplification and proactive action.

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in related field or equivalent combination of any relevant education and experience.
• 6+ years of relevant experience with proven ability to lead including 2+ years of…