Strategic Commodity Manager 5

Lam Research • Fremont, CA

17h • $114,000 - $253,000

About The Position

At Lam, as a Strategic Commodity Manager, you play a crucial role in managing industry suppliers. You will develop and implement commodity strategies, align development deliverables, benchmark suppliers, negotiate agreements, and resolve delivery, cost, and production challenges. Navigating a highly visible and dynamic environment, your strategic expertise in implementing initiatives will support commodity availability, quality, and cost to maintain Lam's reliability and competitive edge.
At Lam, as a Strategic Commodity Manager, you play a crucial role in managing industry suppliers. You’ll develop and implement commodity strategies, align development deliverables, benchmark suppliers, negotiate agreements, and resolve delivery, cost, and production challenges. Navigating a highly visible and dynamic environment, your strategic expertise in implementing initiatives will support commodity availability, quality, and cost to maintain Lam's reliability and competitive edge.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Engineering with minimum of 12 years of related experience, or 8 years with a Master's degree or 5 years of experience with a PhD.
• Familiarity with semiconductor equipment or high-technology supply management practices, standards and organizations.
• Proven ability to gain partnerships and excel working and leading in a cross-functional environment with new product introduction, manufacturing, quality and reliability engineers as well as procurement, finance, and product support.
• PowerPoint and presentation skills.
• May require up to 15-25% travel.

Responsibilities

• Individual represents the technology commodity at Lam Research.
• The technology commodity involves chamber critical components that are at the center of our chambers where customers wafers are processed. Individuals provides strategic plans for timely inventory control, planning and quality control of production materials.
• Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures, and material control systems to drive speed, streamline procedures, and implement solutions.
• Ensures for solid strategies to assure availability of materials in the supply chain as scheduled, and the maintenance of inventory at minimum acceptable levels.
• Responsible for sourcing decisions as well as coordinating global procurement efforts. Coordinates with finance/accounting on matters involving inventory, cost savings and cash flow management.
• Leads commodity team for establishing strategic vision for the commodity space, then managing projects to active plans & objectives.
• This requires managing weekly collaborative meetings and ensuring all internal stakeholders are engaged and communication to higher management are in place & timely. Work with suppliers in making sure they have adequate capacity to support Lam demand as well as supply continuity risk management plans.
• Manages several global and domestic supplier in the technology commodity supporting Etch & Deposition product lines.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level