Strategic Commodity Manager 4 (Metal Machining Commodity)

The group you’ll be a part of

The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

The impact you’ll make

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. What you’ll do

Job Responsibilities:  This position is an individual contributor that plays a vital role as the  Commodity manager for Metal Machining within the Build to Print Fabrication  space with core responsibility to get the Finished Goods delivered as per plan. The self-motived candidate will plan, organize and controlbusiness/contracts/negotiations for  strategic acquisition   of materials and services  of technical orcontractual nature within Global Supply Chain. This Strategic Commodity Managers will beresponsible for driving supplier contract management, conducting supplier negotiations, analyticallyformulating and executing comprehensive supplier management strategies based onsemiconductor technology landscapes and global business environments within our metalmachining commodity.   Other Job Responsibilities:

Facilitate most supplier Global Agreement negotiations, renegotiations and contractaddendums. Negotiate performance-based, preferred supplier agreements, to provideincentive for continuous supplier improvement. Advises commodity team leader on strategicplans. Represents strategic commodity management on a cross-functional strategic commodity teamthat focuses on supply challenges and ensures internal/external customer needs are satisfied. Works cross-functionally with product, manufacturing, and quality engineers as well asprocurement, finance, and product support Define and monitor metrics in line with AOP (annual operating plan) objectives relative tosupplier performance against these expectations to ensure continuous supplier improvement;then drives team to address and close gaps to meet objectives. Regularly evaluate cost and quality performance benchmarks, and the risks associated withthe preferred supply base selection. Develop and apply a strategic commodity plans to define a preferred supplier base for metalmachining commodity. Encourage and coordinate early supplier involvement on new product designs using thesuppliers’ expertise to optimize quality, cost and manufacturability. Who we’re looking for

Minimum Education: BA/BS/MS degree in Business or a technical field listed herein (but notlimited to) the following: Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Applied Science Operations Management, Global Supply Chain Management. MBA preferred. Minimum Experience: 7-10+ years of experience in a Supply Chain, Operations, orproduction/planning environment. Preferably in Semiconductor industry. Exceptional interpersonal relationship skills and professional level of emotional intelligencenecessary to achieve the desired objective deliverables. Proven experience of strong analytical and problem-solving skills with history of successfulresolution. Exhibit attention to detail, sense of urgency and ability to handle multiple tasks in fast pacedenvironment. Six sigma green belt or above is a plus. Preferred qualifications

Business and technical background with an understanding of CNC machining process. Requires excellent analytical and written/oral communication