Strategic Commodity Manager 5

Lam Research • Tualatin, OR

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About The Position

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's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or Business; MBA or post graduate degree in Supply Chain Management.
• Ten (10) years of working experience in Supply Chain, Operations, or production environment, preferably in Semiconductor industry.
• Creative thinking and strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Solid analytical and written/oral communication skills with ability to communicate cross-functionally and with various levels of the organization including Executives.
• Has worked in a leadership role within a global matrix managed multi-site company with manufacturing and supplier operations spread over multiple continents and at least $1 billion in revenue.
• Has extensive experience interfacing with customers and suppliers and managing these relationships, knowledge of supply chain management business processes.
• Demonstrate proactive leadership in identifying problems, potential risks and mitigating those in advance of a critical situation.
• Working knowledge of the machine shop or job shop operations, processes, and experience managing high mix/low volume products.
• Proven ability to gain partnerships and excel working and leading in a cross-functionalenvironment with new product introduction, manufacturing, quality and reliability engineers aswell as procurement, finance, and product support.
• Excel, PowerPoint and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage suppliers and a team of Strategic Commodity Managers in the Metal Machining and Plastics Fabrication commodity with core responsibility to ensure products are delivered per plan.
• Develop a 3-year vision and strategy for assigned commodities. The strategy should enhance competitive differentiation and address cost, delivery, and quality.
• Work across the organization to formulate and execute the strategies, align development deliverables, negotiate pricing and contracts and agreements, benchmark suppliers, and resolve delivery, cost, and production challenges.
• Manage supplier relationships, cost, lead sourcing decisions, plan adequate capacity, evaluate performance and manage commodity risks
• Benchmark, develop, implement, and improve supply chain processes and infrastructure to support quality, scalability, and supply continuity
• Work collaboratively with cross functional team and internal stakeholders in development of local and regional suppliers
• Domestic and international travel will be required

What This Job Offers

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