Strategic Commodity Manager

The group you’ll be a part of

We are a company comprised of people who work hard, deliver outstanding results and maintain a sense of humor during even the most challenging times. This is truly a rare opportunity. Lam Research is a market leader where our core values are not just words on the back of your badge. Given the criticality of this role to Lam Research's success, this philosophy starts with you.

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

The Strategic Commodity Manager is responsible for performing industry research and monitoring global business environments in order to develop, align, and execute strategic commodity plans for our Global Supply Chain. The position will help the company achieve future success in best quality, delivery, cost, and differentiation in commodities such as: Electro-static chucks, Coatings, Performance Materials, Showerheads, and Pedestal space. This position is multifaceted and requires leadership to guide the rest of the adjacent supply chain teams within our matrix organization.

Who we’re looking for

• Represent global supply chain strategic commodity management to develop and align sourcing strategies of critical parts sourcing with volume suppliers and set supplier categorization.
• Recommend supply chain strategies for critical commodities/ technologies to the extent of partnerships and beyond.
• Work cross-functionally with product management, engineering and product group teams on key roadmap objectives & technology developments within our supply chain.
• Develop and maintain supplier core competencies to support local/global business requirements.
• Develop, own and actively manage business and supply/ demand continuity plans.
• Negotiate contracts such as IP agreements as well as volume purchase agreements and identify/ execute on pricing inflection points.
• Manage Lam liabilities at suppliers through claims and balance sheet review processes.
• Establish fair value of part costs and actively negotiate or structure space to maintain fair value.
• Develop and own execution of cost savings plans including alternate sourcing, restructuring the supply chain, and design-based savings projects in partnership with our engineering teams.
• Support/improve supplier performance through supplier scorecard and quarterly based review processes.
• Encourage and coordinate early supplier involvement on new product designs using the suppliers’ expertise to optimize quality, cos and manufacturability.
• Lead/ support cross-functional commodity management teams to ensure strategic and executional alignment.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or related with 12 years of experience; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• Excellent written/oral communication skills with ability to communicate cross-functionally and with various levels of the organization including executives.
• Possess strong leadership skills including Team Facilitation, Project Management, and Motivation.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems with scalable and repeatable results.
• Exhibits attention to detail, sense of urgency, and ability to prioritize when presented with multiple tasks in fast paced environment.
• Travel required up to 25%; domestic and international.

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