Senior Sourcing Manager

As a Senior Sourcing Manager of at Applied Materials, you will support the enterprise’s key business initiatives through sourcing execution and deliver company-wide continuous improvement for all related project, supplier relationship and stakeholder management tied to sourcing initiatives. As a member of the RFx enablement team you will join a team of sourcing professionals responsible for the execution of a standard, scalable and repeatable RFP, RFQ and RFI process. You will partner closely with business leaders, Category Managers and suppliers to coordinate sourcing activity leveraging templates and tools provided. Sourcing Managers are expected to maintain the highest level of partnership, innovation, efficiency, and compliance supporting the companies’ mission to “Make Possible”.

Global Procurement Services (GPS) is a Global support organization, procuring the goods, services and contingent workforce required for Applied Materials to run the company and enable our employees to support our customers. Your role will partner with global strategic leaders and leverage a team of Category-aligned managers across all Indirect commodities. This role will support all Applied Materials business lines.

You will support the client relationship management aspect and supplier engagement of the commodities you oversee by generating, innovating, and implementing transparent sourcing strategies.  In this capacity you will lead a team to consolidate stakeholder needs into clear requirements documents, lead and drive project execution ensuring the highest level of rigor for project management, develop reporting to ensure stakeholder accountability and work with leadership to solve high value problems for your clients. You will help develop frameworks to prove and track relevant value through supplier relationships to the business.

You are curious, ask hard questions and challenge yourself and others to continuously improve. You will provide guidance and leadership to your staff to ensure they meet their commitments and goals while collaborating effectively with clients. You are responsible for team performance and results. You will learn Applied Materials overall businesses and become a trusted advisor to partner with and guide your sourcing team and the internal customers in their Sourcing decisions.  

Responsibilities:

• Project management: Utilizing standard project management tools and summary documents to track and communicate status of projects
• Supplier management: Identifying and evaluating suppliers,  and managing supplier relationships
• Market research: Conducting market research and creating cost estimates and forecasts
• Procurement: Developing policies and schedules for regular procurements, and analyzing and calculating procurement costs
• Risk management: Estimating risks and applying risk minimizing techniques
• BPO partner management: Consolidating feedback on BPO performance
• Oversee the execution of all RFx processes
• Partner with Global Sourcing & Procurement leaders to provide RFX insights
• Support the transformation of Sourcing value proposition through training, hiring, development of templates and implementation of best practices.  
• Leverage available tools and study trends utilizing market intelligence and industry research to identify and solve potential high value problems, and continually seek new opportunities for innovation for your category.
• Support the business in spend management projects that accomplish key objectives like savings, process effectiveness, supplier consolidation & management, risk reduction & management, improved visibility and control of expenditures.
• Collaborate with Suppliers, Budget owners, FP&A, Accounting, Legal, InfoSec to ensure appropriate review, approvals, transactions and according documentation is in order to support compliance and due diligence while developing and standardizing business processes to improve scalability and sustainability
• Travel may be required up to25% as appropriate for the support of your suppliers and stakeholders.

Skills:

• Strong Project Management skills with the ability to develop, drive and maintain RFx Projects
• Stakeholder and customer management skills: Influence, professional communication
• Strong negotiator and ability to read people quickly and adapt to complex situations.
• Ability to develop strong relationships in a matrixed organization to influence and drive change, partnership and collaborate in a personable, approachable manner.
• Communicate in a clear, concise and timely manner (both verbal and written) to operate and collaborate effectively.
• Mentor capabilities to coach and drive team excellence.
• Have exceptional customer service and strong emotional intelligence.
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