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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
Job Responsibility
Drive the commodity strategy for assigned commodity - Cables
Plan, organize and control business/contracts/negotiations for strategic acquisition of materials and services of technical or contractual nature within Global Supply Chain
Establish Supplier Strategy, evaluating/sourcing suppliers & managing supplier relationship to drive projects to achieve goals of global procurement efforts
Continuously scan markets & global landscape to explore and evaluate strategic suppliers
Coordinate with finance/accounting for inventory, cost savings & cash flow management
Evaluate new suppliers considering their organization capabilities, technology expertise, production capabilities, financial performance, customer orientation & Supply chain robustness
Ensure Suppliers have adequate capacity to support Lam demand as well as supply continuity risk management plans
Represent on a cross-functional strategic commodity team that focuses on supply challenges and ensures internal/external customer needs are satisfied
Regularly evaluate cost and quality performance benchmarks & the risks associated with the preferred supply base selection
Supplier Performance Management through Score cards and other related parameters
Encourage and coordinate early supplier involvement in new product designs using the suppliers’ expertise to optimize quality, cost and manufacturability
Co-ordination with Engineering for identifying and onboarding new suppliers for NPI, Design change management, Qualification of alternates
Manage the commodity spend by Negotiation/Mitigation of Price increases
Plan & Execute cost reduction strategies through negotiations, material cost reductions, alternate sourcing, technology changes
Support material availability escalations & co-ordinate with suppliers to ensure no line down
Supporting quality escalations to ensure standards/processes to ensure part/supplier compliance
Managing contracts for ongoing and new business with suppliers
Data analysis & representation for sourcing & pricing evaluation & decision making
Responsible for business continuity plans and risk management programs
Requirements
Min 6~8 years in commodity management in Engineering / Manufacturing Industry
Bachelor’s in Mechanical / Electrical / Industrial engineering or any other stream. MBA will be an added advantage
Experience in Commodity Management and familiarity with semiconductor, Electrical equipment Manufacturing or high-technology supply management practices, standards and organizations
Business and technical background understanding all the Commercial off the shelf items, OEM, Cables Assembly and Components, Electro – mechanical parts etc
General shift, flexible to take meetings in USA PST & Asia time zone
Proven ability to gain partnerships and excel working 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
Proven experience of strong analytical and problem-solving skills with history of successful resolution
Exhibit attention to detail, sense of urgency and ability to handle multiple tasks in fast paced environment
Nice to have
Proficient in data analytics & presentation skills
Six sigma green belt or above is a plus
Experience in the capital equipment industry, e.g., semiconductors, medical equipment, construction equipment, etc.