The Memory/Storage Sourcing Manager will be a transformative leader who can develop, deliver, and implement comprehensive commodity strategies and make recommendations to internal stakeholders on memory product related matters. As a global commodity management professional, you demonstrate strong analytical skills to guide decisions, are highly collaborative and have both business acumen and technical experience in the Memory or Storage industry. You will have successfully transformed commodity management teams, led supplier engagements, and have provided outstanding value to other operations and engineering teams. Want to make a difference? Come join our team!
What youll be doing:
Build a strategy and vision for our Memory and Storage solutions for Network BU. Incorporate internal and external ideas to establish a robust sourcing team.
Collaborate with and influence leaders across various cross-functional organizations, collaborators, suppliers on a regular basis; coordinate engagement with the entire ecosystem to determine technical and business requirements for highly complex business areas and product categories.
Drive multi-year sourcing strategy and partnership engagement to support our fast growth business requirements while optimizing costs and ensuring continuity of supply.
Manage partnership with suppliers to drive innovation and improvement, transform capabilities and proactively assess risk and impact of change.
Be responsible for cost negotiation and continuity of supply and partner with planning and materials team to optimize supply chain for this critical category.
Drive business impact by applying subject matter expertise in procurement processes and policies, and market intelligence to develop and influence strategies cross-functionally.
BA / Bs.c degree (Masters preferred), or equivalent experience.
8+ overall years of strategic sourcing and high-tech industry experience or related field.
Extensive global sourcing leadership experience building and engaging global memory and storage suppliers.
Outstanding negotiation skills in executive supplier management.
Excellent communications and influencing skills working with engineering, finance, business units, and other supply chain functions.
High degree of integrity, initiative, and attention to detail.
