Senior Director, Supply Chain

The Group You’ll Be A Part Of

The Impact You’ll Make

As a leader in Lam’s Global Supplier Management organization, this critical position requires a passionate, driven leader who will architect and deliver strategic directions in managing the Mechatronics commodities within Lam’s supply chain.   As a Sr Director within Supply Chain, this executive will play a crucial and influential role in the success of Lam.  This person will collaborate with the Executive management team, Supply Chain Executives and Product Group Executives.  

Location of the position is in Tualatin, OR or Livermore, CA and will include worldwide travel.

What You’ll Do

• Architecting and delivering a complete end to end strategy that supports Lam’s 3-year horizon:
  • Supplier selection (Expansion & consolidation) that meet business needs
  • Deliver & focus supplier investments (R&D & capacity expansions) that are aligned with Lam’s needs
  • Responsible for commercial negotiation that result in achieving annual objectives for cost, quality, lead time & flexibility.
• Develop a 3-year vision, strategy and organizational structure for assigned commodities. The strategy should enhance competitive differentiation and address commodity availability, quality and cost. 
• Leadership responsibilities include:
  • Lead sourcing negotiations. 
  • Drive business processes that enable effective prioritization 
  • Provide inspired leadership and direction to the global supply chain organization.  
  • Lead a geographically dispersed team of approximately 10 employees, including some matrix employees.
• Operate in a Complex Environment
  • Build and maintain a strong employee organization through strategic hiring, development, and performance management.  
  • Manage supplier relationships to deliver negotiated value
  • Make decisions under pressure, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure
  • Be able to navigate Lam and supplier constraints such as source locking and moving suppliers.
  • Develop and present meaningful and impactful messages to a wide array of audiences: C-level, Peer VPs, Global Supply Chain, Suppliers and Customers

Who We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Operations or Engineering Equivalent
• Fifteen (15) years of professional experience, preferably with a minimum of 5 years in executive management roles.
• Has worked in an executive leadership role within a global matrix managed multi-site company with manufacturing and supplier operations spread over multiple continents with at least $1 billion in revenue.
• Has extensive experience interfacing with customers and suppliers and managing these relationships on product issue identification, problem resolution and total experience.
• Demonstrated business orientation and proactive leadership that identifies and anticipates problems, issues, and risks to a project outcomes and manages those issue in advance of a critical situation.
• Demonstrated success at using rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Has led and developed high performing teams and demonstrated ability to maintain and engage staff.
• Interpersonal and leadership skills across multiple cultures in North America, Europe and Asia
• Be able to lead & influence technically strong employees
• Executive presentation skills for internal and external executive presentations
• Operational background required
• Experience in Semiconductor or High-Tech Industry preferred

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