VP of Global Sourcing - Direct Materials

Sandisk•Milpitas, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The mission of the VP of Global Sourcing - Direct Materials is to create enterprise-wide value by driving procurement excellence, achieving best cost, enabling business continuity, providing market intelligence, and acting as a trusted advisor to secure long-term growth. This role will elevate procurement maturity, embed advanced technologies including AI into solutioning and position Sandisk as an industry leader in strategic sourcing and supplier partnerships. With direct responsibility for Sandisk’s global direct material procurement organization, this executive will strengthen capabilities to become an indispensable business partner—not only on cost initiatives but also on innovation, risk mitigation, and strategic growth. The VP will develop long-term sourcing strategies, ensure resilience in the supply chain, and deliver actionable insights that support Sandisk’s competitive advantage worldwide.

Requirements

This individual will have at least 15 years of experience in Purchasing, BPO and supply chain, and ideally will have already served as the top Purchasing executive for a global semiconductor company with annual revenues over $2 billion for at least three years’ time. With a proven track record of forming win-win partnerships with suppliers, this executive should bring both a strategic and ‘hands on’ mindset and a proven track record in change management.
A globally-minded leader, that has done business across Europe, the Americas and Asia. This person will be comfortable with diverse teams of people and should be culturally attuned to succeeding in a complex global environment.
Must have the strategic capability to devise short- and long- term Purchasing strategies, balanced by the operational capability to implement them. It is critical that this individual has strong general business acumen and can play a key role on the broader senior leadership team. This executive must also be highly analytical, process-driven and results-oriented, with a bias for action.
This individual will have at least 15 years of experience in Purchasing, BPO and supply chain, and ideally will have already served as the top Purchasing executive for a global semiconductor company with annual revenues over $2 billion for at least three years’ time. With a proven track record of forming win-win partnerships with suppliers, this executive should bring both a strategic and ‘hands on’ mindset and a proven track record in change management.

Responsibilities

Lead all direct material categories globally for Sandisk.
Ensure continuous delivery of annual productivity through aggressive cost innovation
Drive spend leverage for select direct material to significantly higher savings
Responsible for global talent management
Provide thought leadership and vision to support the organizational objectives
Seen as a key strategic partner across all functions within the business
Drive procurement maturity by implementing advanced processes, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.
Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on supply market trends, risk management, and growth strategies.
Champion business continuity planning and supplier risk mitigation.
Act as the senior executive supplier contact point
Responsible for the E2E Purchasing processes (systems, policies and processes, P2P)
Responsible for cross business commodity coordination as required
Align Business Groups around the supplier strategy and supply base consolidation
Ensure the optimum Purchasing performance to achieve quality, cost, timing, environmental, safety, sustainability and technology requirements in line with business objectives
Deliver committed Key Performance Indicators
Roll out global materials forecasts and drive material lead-time reduction programs
Rationalize the supply base
Implement stringent procedures on supplier quality assurance and track progress
Drive a transition to a new organizational model
Drive the implementation of Purchasing Contract Management, aligning processes, master data management and negotiation time schedules
Improve knowledge management and contract templates
Continue enhancing the skill sets of the Purchasing organization
Coach and develop key individuals
Lead the cross sector Purchasing talent process

Benefits

paid vacation time
paid sick leave
medical/dental/vision insurance
life, accident and disability insurance
tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
employee assistance program
other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
tuition reimbursement
transit
the Applause Program
employee stock purchase plan
the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan