Materials Project Management (B4)

Applied Materials•Austin, TX

About The Position

Applied Materials seeks a Materials Project Management professional to coordinate materials planning and supplier activities for product development and commercialization. The role works across engineering, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, buyers, planners, and production control to develop materials strategies, manage supplier performance, control costs, and resolve supply and quality issues. The position may lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, or complexity and operates with limited or no supervision when creating, releasing, and updating project materials strategies.

Requirements

Depth and/or breadth of expertise in the applicable specialized discipline or field.
Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices.
Ability to lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.
Ability to lead others in solving complex problems using sophisticated analytical thought and judgment.
Ability to communicate difficult concepts and negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view.

Responsibilities

Forecast and communicate engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers.
Perform make-versus-buy analysis to inform outsourcing decisions.
Coordinate demand signals through MRP to minimize inventory exposure.
Lead the Materials Core Team and coordinate product development deliverables through matrix management of buyers, planners, and production control.
Collaborate with engineering to interpret requirements and identify critical parts, long-lead parts, and inspection requirements.
Create, release, and update project materials strategies with limited or no supervision.
Assist with supplier price and delivery negotiations and, under direct supervision, negotiate contracts as necessary.
Apply preferred-supplier selection and assessment processes and complete risk assessments for critical and unique parts.
Monitor supplier delivery, quality, and cost performance.
Coordinate source selection, specification creation, and price negotiation with appropriate team members.
Execute commercialization (transition) materials plans and manage materials change control.
Meet cost objectives, resolve quality issues, generate and publish key process indicators, and track total landed-cost targets.
Assist with and/or lead development of supplier and commodity road maps for engineering.
Use value analysis on build-to-print components to support should-cost analysis.
Partner with quality and engineering teams to resolve supplier quality issues for assigned product groups and escalate issues to Commodity Business Managers when necessary.
Interpret business challenges and recommend practices to improve products, processes, or services; lead others in solving complex problems and communicate difficult concepts to influence others.