Strategic Commodity Manager

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The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

At Lam, as a Strategic Commodity Manager, you play a crucial role in managing industry suppliers. You’ll develop and implement commodity strategies, align development deliverables, benchmark suppliers, negotiate agreements, and resolve delivery, cost, and production challenges. Navigating a highly visible and dynamic environment, your strategic expertise in implementing initiatives will support commodity availability, quality, and cost to maintain Lam's reliability and competitive edge.

• Develop a 3-year vision, strategy, and organizational structure for assigned commodities. The strategy should enhance competitive differentiation and address commodity availability, quality, and cost.
• Mitigate overall supply chain risks by managing BCP plans, capacity, safety stocks for finished goods & sub-components, etc.
• Manage commodities which include Pneumatic Commercial Off the Shelf & Custom design parts, and OEM parts.
• Champion on architecting and delivering a complete end to end strategy that supports Lam’s 3-year horizon:
  • Supplier selection (expansion & consolidation) that meet business needs.
  • Emphasis on delivering & focusing supplier investments (R&D & capacity expansions) that are aligned with Lam’s initiatives.
  • Commercial negotiation that results in achieving annual objectives for cost, quality and flexibility without risking any tool deliveries to customers.
  • Early engagement with product group for supplier selection during development stage.

• Bachelor’s degree and/or MBA in Supply Chain, Business Management, Operations, Engineering, or related degree with a minimum 15 years of working experience.
• 5 years of working experience in the Semiconductor Equipment industry is a plus.
• Strong experiences in negotiating various types of contractual agreements.
• Strong SAP experience.
• Experience working with global suppliers.
• Demonstrated experience working successfully in a matrix organization.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience giving presentations and interaction with director reports, cross-functional teams, and senior leadership.
• Proficient on Excel and Power Point.

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

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