Senior Strategic Commodity Manager

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.

Mechatronics commodity involves mostly robots that are used to move wafers during wafer processing as well as spindles and controllers used in automation.

What You’ll Do

• Provides strategic plans for timely inventory control, planning and quality control of production materials.
• Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures, and material control systems to drive speed, streamline procedures, and implement solutions.
• Ensures for solid strategies to assure availability of materials in the supply chain as scheduled, and the maintenance of inventory at minimum acceptable levels.
• Responsible for sourcing decisions as well as coordinating global procurement efforts.
• Coordinates with finance/accounting on matters involving inventory, cost savings and cash flow management.
• Leads commodity team for establishing strategic vision for the commodity space, then managing projects to active plans & objectives. This requires managing weekly collaborative meetings and ensuring all internal stakeholders are engaged and communication to higher management are in place & timely.
• Work with suppliers in making sure they have adequate capacity to support Lam demand as well as supply continuity risk management plans. 
• Manages several global and domestic integrators in the Mechatronics commodity supporting Etch & Deposition product lines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, or related discipline.
• Twelve (12) years of working experience in Supply Chain, Operations, or production environment, preferably in Semiconductor industry.
• Has extensive experience interfacing with suppliers and managing the relationships.
• Demonstrate proactiveness in identifying problems, potential risks, and mitigating in advance of a critical situation.
• Working knowledge of Mechatronic systems, with experience managing high mix/low volume products.
• Familiarity with semiconductor equipment or high-technology supply management practices, standards and organizations.
• Proven ability to gain partnerships and excel working and leading 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.
• May require up to 15-25% travel.

Our Commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

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