About The Position
Serving as Senior Category Supplier Manager for Advanced Packaging Material at Micron, you will gain a remarkable chance to lead a major strategic supplier or group of suppliers. You will contribute to Micron’s world-class memory and storage products. Your role includes collaborating with colleagues from multiple categories to maintain superior supplier support for goods and services. You will also partner internally to define and track crucial performance metrics. Your expertise will play a key role in directing supplier approaches to optimize cost, supply, and quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years in Procurement, Engineering, or Category Management
- Proven experience in global negotiations and category leadership.
- Demonstrated relationship management skills, including navigating the organization, influencing decisions, and aligning with collaborators
- Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with a forward-thinking approach
- Strong project management skills with the ability to lead or complete assigned tasks
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite applications
Nice To Haves
- Semiconductor background in Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business
- Demonstrated ability to apply baseline digital proficiency and appropriate AI literacy. Use AI-enabled tools responsibly and efficiently for research, analysis, and content creation. Apply them also for problem-solving, operational tasks, and achieving business goals.
- Strong executive presence; comfortable engaging SVP/CEO-level supplier leadership.
Responsibilities
- Own and establish global category strategies for Advanced Packaging Material to foster innovation in solutions for HBM and wafer-level packaging technology.
- Lead market intelligence, including supplier landscape & capability mapping, technology roadmaps & inflection points, pricing models, and long-term cost curves.
- Develop dual-source/alternate-source strategies and supply base optimization to mitigate concentration and continuity risks.
- Act as Micron’s primary commercial lead for strategic material suppliers, executive reviews, and blocking issue governance with supplier executives.
- Drive alignment on capacity commitments, technology enablement, and long-term partnership frameworks.
- Lead sourcing events/RFQ process into bundled negotiation; lead negotiations for contract extensions and renewals, renegotiation of prices, transfers, etc.
- Apply should-cost, total cost of ownership (TCO), and global benchmarking models to negotiations.
- Own strategy, governance, and renegotiations as market or capacity conditions shift.
- Deliver repeatable cost and efficiency impact across Advanced Packaging manufacturing processes and solutions.
- Drive multi-year savings roadmaps.
- Establish a positive relationship with TD, Central Engineering, Operations, Planning, and Finance.
- Influence sourcing strategies and technology readiness from a commercial and risk perspective.
- Serve as Procurement subject matter expert and inspiring leader, crafting decisions beyond traditional buying.
- Operate as a role model Senior/Principal IC, setting standards for critical thinking, executive communication, and data-driven decision making.
- Lead complex global initiatives without direct people management.
- Integrate AI-assisted tools and insights into daily work to improve efficiency, quality, or effectiveness, exercising good judgment and aligning with organizational standards and legal requirements.
- Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by identifying, testing, and sharing AI-enabled improvements within one’s scope of work.
Benefits
- Choice of medical, dental and vision plans
- Benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury
- Paid family leave
- Robust paid time-off program
- Paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
