Materials Project Manager – NPI Supply Chain - (B3)

Applied Materials•Santa Clara, CA

1d•$101,000 - $139,000•Onsite

About The Position

Applied Materials is seeking a Materials Project Manager for its NPI Supply Chain organization. The role coordinates materials planning and supplier activities for product development and commercialization, working across engineering, quality, sourcing, buyers, planners, and production control. It creates and maintains project materials strategies, supports supplier selection and performance management, and helps meet cost, quality, delivery, and inventory objectives. The position is based in Santa Clara, California, and requires travel 20% of the time.

Requirements

Demonstrated depth and/or breadth of expertise in the relevant specialized discipline or field.
Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services.
Ability to lead others in solving complex problems using sophisticated analytical thinking, judgment, and innovative solutions.
Ability to communicate difficult concepts and negotiate with others to adopt a different point of view.
Willingness to travel 20% of the time.

Responsibilities

Forecast and communicate engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers.
Provide input to outsourcing decisions through make-versus-buy analysis and coordinate demand signals through MRP to minimize inventory exposure.
Lead the Materials Core Team and coordinate product development process deliverables through matrix management of buyers, planners, and production control.
Collaborate with engineering to interpret engineering requirements.
Create, release, and update new project materials strategies with limited or no supervision.
Assist with supplier price and delivery negotiations; negotiate contracts under direct supervision as necessary.
Apply preferred supplier selection and assessment processes, assess risks for critical and unique parts, and monitor supplier delivery, quality, and cost performance.
Coordinate source selection, specification creation, and price negotiation with relevant team members.
Execute the commercialization (transition) materials plan.
Manage materials change control, meet cost objectives, resolve quality issues, generate and publish key process indicators, and track total landed-cost targets.
Work with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long-lead parts, and inspection requirements.
Assist with 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 and mediate between quality and engineering teams to resolve supplier quality issues for assigned product groups; escalate issues to Commodity Business Managers when necessary.