Vice President of Direct Materials Procurement

Company Description

Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape. Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward.

We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.

Mission:
Vice President of Direct Materials Procurement – create enterprise-wide value by driving procurement excellence, achieving best cost, enabling business continuity, providing market intelligence, and acting as a trusted advisor to secure long-term growth. Elevate procurement maturity, embed advanced technologies including AI into solutioning and position Sandisk as an industry leader in strategic sourcing and supplier partnerships. Direct responsibility for Sandisk’s global direct material procurement organization – strengthen capabilities to become an indispensable business partner on cost initiatives, innovation, risk mitigation and strategic growth.

Develop long‑term sourcing strategies, ensure resilience in the supply chain and deliver actionable insights that support Sandisk’s competitive advantage worldwide.

• Lead all direct material categories globally.
• Ensure continuous delivery of annual productivity through aggressive cost innovation.
• Drive spend leverage for select direct material to significantly higher savings.
• Responsible for global talent management.
• Provide thought leadership and vision to support the organizational objectives.
• Seen as a key strategic partner across all functions within the business.
• Drive procurement maturity by implementing advanced processes, analytics, and AI‑enabled solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on supply market trends, risk management, and growth strategies.
• Champion business continuity planning and supplier risk mitigation.

• Act as the senior executive supplier contact point.
• Responsible for the E2E Purchasing processes (systems, policies and processes, P2P).
• Responsible for cross business commodity coordination as required.
• Align Business Groups around the supplier strategy and supply base consolidation.

• Ensure optimum Purchasing performance to achieve quality, cost, timing, environmental, safety, sustainability and technology requirements in line with business objectives.
• Deliver committed Key Performance Indicators.
• Roll out global materials forecasts and drive material lead‑time reduction programs.
• Rationalize the supply base.
• Implement stringent procedures on supplier quality assurance and track progress.

• Drive a transition to a new organizational model.
• Drive the implementation of Purchasing Contract Management, aligning processes, master data management and negotiation time schedules.
• Improve knowledge management and contract templates.
• Continue enhancing the skill sets of the Purchasing organization.
• Coach and develop key individuals.
• Lead the cross sector Purchasing talent process.

Executive Leadership – at least 15 years of experience in Purchasing, BPO and supply chain, and ideally already served as the top Purchasing executive for a global semiconductor company with annual revenues over $2 billion for at least three years. Proven track record of forming win‑win partnerships with suppliers, strategic and hands‑on mindset, and change‑management expertise.

Global Experience – leader that has done business across Europe, the Americas and Asia, comfortable with diverse teams and culturally attuned to succeeding in a complex global environment.

Business Acumen – strategic capability to devise short‑ and long‑term Purchasing strategies, balanced by operational capability…