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Job Description

Join Micron as a Sr Category Supplier Manager and embark on an exciting journey to drive outstanding category management and strategic sourcing initiatives. You will play a key role in transforming how we compete in the global market, delivering world-class solutions through seamless execution and collaboration.

Category Management & Strategic Sourcing

Implement processes to strictly monitor collaborator happiness with key suppliers.
Recommend ambitious targets to increase value such as high revenue, spend reduction, purchasing efficiency, customer services, and supplier management.
Examine sourcing patterns and provide validated suggestions for designated categories.
Participate in supplier segmentation and strategic goal-setting.
Develop category strategies for managed categories and validate strategies with Global and Regional Category Managers/s and internal partners.

Cost Management & Analysis

Identify and evaluate category-specific savings/revenue levers.
Drive category savings/revenue and scorecard metric targets.
Provide market intelligence and category price trends to relevant internal collaborators.
Apply should-cost models for assigned categories that are benchmarked and relevant to the global marketplace.

Negotiation

Lead or participate in negotiations for contract extensions and renewals, renegotiation of prices, transfers, etc.
Lead sourcing events/RFQ process into bundled negotiation.
Incorporate savings targets and contract requirements into negotiations.
Develop a contract strategy for suppliers in assigned categories and build, negotiate, monitor, and enforce contracted terms and conditions.
Lead strategic sourcing efforts, negotiations, and cost management through supplier and industry analysis.

Business Partnering

Collaborate with collaborators to deliver strategic solutions.
Develop and maintain expertise in the assigned spend categories through relationships with key collaborators.
Drive a customer-centric approach to solving issues and representing Procurement.
Develop and maintain collaborative partnerships to improve cost-effectiveness, supply chain efficiency, and resilience.

Requirements

At least 5 years of background in category management and strategic sourcing.
A relevant Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated expertise in category management and strategic sourcing.
Strong negotiating and analytical skills.
Strong communication skills and ability to effectively manage relationships with various individuals involved.
Advanced skills in material cost structure understanding and analysis.
Leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to enhance business processes, including developing and implementing AI-driven solutions to improve efficiency, accuracy, and operating as a culture vanguard towards infusing AI into everyday work.

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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