Senior Director, Global Inventory Control

NVIDIA•Santa Clara, CA

10d•$292,000 - $442,750•Onsite

About The Position

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Director to establish and lead its Supply Chain Inventory Control function. The role owns the global control framework for inventory integrity across product tiers, sites, and fiscal closes in NVIDIA’s complex international supply chain, which includes wafer, die, package, board, multi-board system, and rack-scale products manufactured through OSAT and contract manufacturing partners. The position will build a center of excellence, recruit and develop five inventory control specialists, and set policy, controls, and audit standards for regional and site teams across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. The role comes at a time when NVIDIA is shifting from predominantly consigned inventory models toward buy/sell and strategic supply arrangements. The Senior Director will design controls for this transition, addressing its effects on working capital, contract compliance, and audit scope. The position is based at NVIDIA’s Corporate Headquarters in Santa Clara, California, and requires approximately 20% travel to U.S. and international sites.

Requirements

Senior leadership experience in operations finance or inventory control in an international high-tech or semiconductor environment, with multi-tier bills of material covering silicon, packaging, board, system, and rack-scale hardware.
At least 12 years of progressive experience, including direct ownership of inventory accounting, standard cost, variance analysis, reserve methodology, aging governance, write-off matters, and financial controls supporting a manufacturing P&L.
End-to-end ownership of a SOX 404 program, including design and effectiveness testing, named-owner walk-throughs with Big 4 external auditors, Audit Committee remediation cycles, and documented preparer/reviewer separation.
Hands-on SAP fluency across MM, WM, IM, and CO/FI, including cycle counting, book-to-book reconciliation, adjustment posting, inventory valuation, MB51, MB52, LI20/LI21, LX26, and storage-location-level reporting.
Ability to guide auditors through SAP and understand transaction-level access governance as a control.
Experience completing variance investigations involving in-transit aging, book-to-book discrepancies, storage-location mapping, non-valued-location drift, and NPI/RMA plant misconfiguration.
Ability to define central standards and achieve results through influence across distributed regional teams, contract manufacturers, OSAT partners, 3PL warehouses, and forward-stocking locations.
Ability to operate at both strategy and implementation levels and serve as the appointed owner in external audit, Internal Audit, and Audit Committee forums.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, or Operations, or demonstrated equivalent experience with 8 or more years in management.

Nice To Haves

CPA or CMA designation.
MBA with a finance or supply chain concentration, or equivalent experience.
Direct experience leading a consigned-to-buy/sell transition, including contract compliance monitoring, working capital impact modeling, and control framework redesign under an active audit program.
Experience in semiconductors, accelerated computing, or hyperscale data center infrastructure, particularly with multi-level bills of material spanning silicon, package, board, system, and rack scale.
Hands-on manufacturing site experience in China, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, or Thailand, including factory-floor engagement with contract manufacturer and OSAT partners.
Experience with reverse logistics, refurbishment and remanufacturing inventory treatment, NPI plant configuration, and factory calendar governance in SAP.
Experience applying AI or analytics to inventory anomaly detection and continuous control monitoring, with measurable reductions in undetected variance or reconciliation cycle time.
Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent process improvement experience applied to inventory operations at scale.

Responsibilities

Build the Supply Chain Inventory Control function and hire and develop five specialists covering Factory, Fulfillment, Logistics, OSAT, and Service categories.
Establish and manage a continuous control monitoring system and set central standards for regional and site practitioners across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
Lead global inventory controls and reconciliations to provide Finance with reliable inventory balances, aging, and variance evidence for valuation, reserves, write-offs, and quarter-end close.
Own weekly book-to-book reconciliation across NVIDIA SAP, supplier ERP systems, and physical inventory.
Run the inventory cycle’s SOX 404 compliance program end to end, including external auditor walk-throughs, Audit Committee presentations, and preparer/reviewer separation.
Own cycle count adjustment reporting and set schedules that balance perpetual cycle counts with wall-to-wall physical inventories.
Design and implement a control framework for the transition to buy/sell and strategic supply arrangements, across OSAT die operations, rack-scale system integration, and forward and reverse logistics.
Manage continuous control assessments, including anomaly and perfect-match detection, in-transit aging monitoring, off-SAP and non-valued-location governance, SAP storage-location mapping accuracy, and quarterly transaction-family access certification.
Lead variance investigations and ensure documented root-cause resolution.
Lead global organizational change by turning undocumented, single-point-of-failure practices into documented, ISO-aligned, certification-backed processes across contract manufacturers and the wider supplier network.