Strategic Commodity Manager

Lam Research • Fremont, CA

1d • $111,000 - $24,400 • Hybrid

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 Business or a technical field listed herein (but not limited to) the following: Electrical Engineering or Industrial Engineering, with 12 years of related experience; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or 5 years and a PhD; or equivalent experience.
• 12 years of experience in a Supply Chain, Operations, or production/planning environment. Preferably in the Semiconductor industry.
• Ability to understand Power Supply technical documents (i.e., specifications/schematics/drawings) and function within semiconductor manufacturing tools.
• Exceptional interpersonal relationship skills and professional level of emotional intelligence necessary to achieve the desired objective deliverables.
• Proven experience of strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a history of successful resolution.
• Excellent analytical and written/oral communication skills with the ability to communicate cross-functionally and with various levels of the organization, including executives.

Responsibilities

• Develop, align, and implement commodity strategy.
• Understand the commodity landscape in order to forecast industry trends and gauge emerging competitive forces.
• Negotiate, manage, and maintain supplier agreements that provide optimal terms.
• Direct new supplier engagement and/or disengagement requirements to the Lam supply base.
• Collaborate across the Lam organization to ensure business objectives are met.
• Identify potential supply issues and communicate findings to senior leaders.
• Drive resolution of systemic supply chain issues affecting cost, delivery, quality, service, and development support.
• Optimize supply chain/supplier performance through cost, capacity scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
• Develop and present high-level cost savings opportunities.
• Drive formal supplier performance reviews.
• Assess and mitigate supply chain risks to Lam business.
• Assess supplier continuity plans and align to Lam business needs.
• Manage supply chain disruptions in real time with support from Lam Global Operations.

Benefits

• At Lam, our people make amazing things possible. That’s why we invest in you throughout the phases of your life with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees