Director, System Memory Sourcing

NVIDIA•Us, CA

12d

About The Position

NVIDIA is looking for a Director to lead our System Memory Sourcing for the products across multiple business units. NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself over two decades. Our invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing — with the GPU acting as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world. Today, we are increasingly known as “the AI computing company”, and we're looking to grow our company with the smartest people in the world. Want to make a difference? Come join our team! This System Memory Sourcing Director will be a transformative leader who can develop, deliver, and implement comprehensive commodity strategies. You are a recognized leader, with executive contacts throughout the industry, and have experience leading sourcing for large scale enterprise segments. As a global commodity management professional, you demonstrate strong analytical abilities to guide decisions, are highly collaborative and have both an eye for business and technical experience in the Memory industry. You will have successfully transformed commodity management teams, led supplier engagements, and have provided outstanding value to other operations and engineering teams.

Requirements

15+ overall years of strategic sourcing and high-tech industry experience or related field
10+ years of leadership experience and demonstrated successful communications skills at executive level.
Extensive global sourcing leadership experience building and engaging global memory and storage suppliers
BA / BS degree (Masters preferred), or equivalent experience
Outstanding negotiation skills in executive supplier management
Excellent communications, teamwork, and influencing skills working with engineering, finance, business units, and other supply chain functions
High degree of integrity, initiative, and attention to detail

Responsibilities

Build a strategy and vision for NVIDIA's Memory commodity management team.
Incorporate internal and external ideas to establish a robust sourcing team.
Collaborate with and influence leaders across various cross-functional organizations, collaborators, suppliers on a regular basis; coordinate engagement with the entire ecosystem to determine technical and business requirements for highly complex business areas and product categories.
Drive multi-year sourcing strategy and partnership engagement to support NVIDIA's fast growth business requirements while optimizing costs and ensuring continuity of supply.
Manage partnership with suppliers to drive innovation and improvement, transform capabilities and proactively assess risk and impact of change.
Be responsible for cost negotiation and continuity of supply and partner with planning and materials team to optimize supply chain for this critical category.
Drive business impact by applying subject matter expertise in procurement processes and policies, and market intelligence to develop and influence strategies cross-functionally.