Assembly Materials Sr. Commodity Manager

Assembly Materials is looking for an experienced Sr. Commodity Manager responsible for Cost, Quality, Availability, Value Creation, and Supplier Development / Management for Assembly Test materials.

The Assembly Materials Sr. Commodity Manager will be responsible for but not limited to:

• Partner with AM Ops and Technical teams, MTD, Finance, Planning, and Legal to proactively drive the optimization of CQAT within the GSM-AT supply line for select commodities and / or raw materials.
• Own strategic supplier relationships and influencing strategy, negotiations and contracting, spends management, modeling and cost reduction roadmap execution, supplier financial health, business market expert within commodity area (M&A assessments and industry trends), developing and implementing commodity sourcing strategies, supply chain and sub-supply chain risk reduction strategies.
• Extracting key technical decision drivers from information and understanding how to proactively drive commercial or supplier strategies.
• Internalizing Intel's product roadmap changes and how the technical challenges will impact supply chain.
• Shaping the business model between Intel-supplier for mutual benefit.
• Deriving trends from wide-ranging dataset and driving strategic initiatives/collaborations both technical and business collaborations to resolve most pressing supply chain issues for Intel.
• Assuring healthy escalation process in place on both sides to drive gap closure.

The ideal candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits:

• Relationship/Communication Skills: Orchestrates unified communication internally and externally with supplier, including executive management meetings and strategic direction alignment.
• While keeping the best interests of Intel, be a visible advocate for the supplier within Intel.
• Effectively communicates and builds relationships across diverse cross-functional global teams and is comfortable working in multicultural team environments.
• Business and Financial acumen / Influencing Skills: Comprehends balance sheets/cash flow and short-term/long-term financial trends for supplier.
• Technical Acumen: Learns critical technical aspects of commodities managed, and understand how technical criteria changes can impact cost, availability and lead to gaps in supplier capabilities.
• Influences technical stakeholders by utilizing knowledge of supplier's technologies and manufacturing processes.
• Leadership: Coaches and grows the internal account team.
• Sets the vision and direction for the account team.
• Influences across organizations.

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Qualifications listed as preferred or additional will be considered a plus factor for applicants.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Candidate must possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business or Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain Management, including each of the following areas:
  • Creating and negotiating deals, supplier contract management and supplier executive relationship management.
  • Supplier selections and evaluations, experience with packaging /assembly process and equipment and demonstrated experience with managing multiple contact/vendors/deals.
  • Supplier performance at Intel and knowing when to personally engage, and whom to engage at the supplier, to deliver results is key.
  • Semiconductor Industry knowledge: Competitive supply landscape, technical integration trends, strategic threats and opportunities for the supplier and the segments they compete in, and how Intel can benefit from these.

• This position is not eligible for Intel immigration sponsorship.

Preferred qualifications:

• M.B.A. is preferred.
• Past experience or knowledge managing parts/metal forming material suppliers is a plus.

As the world's largest chip manufacturer, Intel strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art - from semiconductor process development and manufacturing, through yield improvement to packaging, final test and optimization, and world class Supply Chain and facilities support. Employees in the Technology and Manufacturing Group are part of a worldwide network of design, development, manufacturing, and assembly/test facilities, all focused on utilizing the power of Moore’s Law to bring smart, connected devices to every person on Earth

Other Locations

US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.