Global Supply Management

Lenovo•Morrisville, NC

16h

About The Position

The Global Supply Management role ensures end-to-end supply continuity, supplier performance, and inventory optimization across global operations. The role partners with GCM, OE/CF, Sales, Operations, Planning, Engineering, Manufacturing, and key suppliers to develop and execute supply strategies that support business growth, customer commitments, and operational excellence. The position owns global supply management for assigned RAID, NIC, GPU, and related commodities. It translates demand, backlog, forecasts, and business priorities into supplier supply plans; identifies constraints and disruptions; develops allocation strategies; and ensures plans support customer requirements, revenue commitments, manufacturing schedules, and business priorities. The role manages supplier operational performance and supply reviews, improves capacity visibility and commit accuracy, and drives resolution of supply gaps. It balances supply assurance with inventory efficiency, monitors inventory and supply exposure, and partners with Planning, Procurement, and Finance to optimize inventory positioning. The position proactively identifies supply risks and leads cross-functional shortage recovery plans. It develops contingency strategies, provides management-level visibility into risks and impacts, and coordinates supply execution across global manufacturing locations and regions. It also supports new product introductions, product transitions, end-of-life planning, and supplier or component changes from a supply-management perspective.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
8+ years in supply chain, supply management, procurement, commodity management, planning, or supplier management.
Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes, including demand planning, supply planning, supplier commits, PO execution, inventory management, and shortage management.
Experience managing complex global supply situations and working with multiple manufacturing sites and regional teams.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to translate complex supply-demand data into actionable decisions.
Strong supplier negotiation, escalation, and relationship-management capabilities.
Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills in a global, cross-functional environment.
Ability to operate effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities in a fast-changing supply environment.
Strong Excel and data-analysis capability, and experience using enterprise supply-planning or ERP tools.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a similar role at a competitor.
Mastery of AI tools.

Responsibilities

Own global supply management for assigned RAID, NIC, GPU, and related commodities.
Translate global demand, backlog, forecasts, and business priorities into actionable supplier supply plans.
Identify supply constraints, shortages, and potential disruptions early, and drive mitigation actions.
Develop allocation and prioritization strategies during constrained supply situations.
Ensure supply plans support customer requirements, revenue commitments, manufacturing schedules, and business priorities.
Manage supplier operational performance, including supply commits, delivery performance, lead time, flexibility, responsiveness, and recovery execution.
Conduct regular supply reviews with strategic suppliers and drive closure of supply gaps.
Establish supplier escalation mechanisms for critical shortages or business-impacting issues.
Work with suppliers to improve capacity visibility, commit accuracy, and supply flexibility.
Balance supply assurance and inventory efficiency while avoiding unnecessary inventory exposure.
Manage inventory within established KPI targets and mitigate excess and obsolete inventory risks.
Monitor demand and lead-time changes, purchase commitments, and supply upside and downside exposure.
Partner with Planning, Procurement, and Finance teams to optimize global inventory positioning.
Identify supply risks involving capacity, semiconductor availability, product transitions, supplier dependencies, geopolitical events, and logistics disruptions.
Lead cross-functional shortage management and recovery plans.
Develop contingency strategies, including alternative supply, upside capacity, allocation optimization, and qualification of alternate solutions where appropriate.
Provide management-level visibility of critical supply risks, business impact, recovery timing, and required decisions.
Partner with GCM, Engineering, Planning, Sales, Operations, Manufacturing, Finance/OE-CF, quality teams, regional procurement organizations, and suppliers.
Coordinate supply execution across global manufacturing locations and regions, including China, Mexico, Brazil, India, Europe, and other operational sites.
Support new product introductions, product transitions, end-of-life planning, and supplier or component changes from a supply-management perspective.
Drive alignment between commercial strategy, technical roadmap, demand outlook, supplier capacity, and operational execution.