In this role, you will conduct negotiations for strategic sourcing events using cost modeling and other analytical techniques to drive the negotiation process and coordinate quarterly negotiations / renewals into bundled negotiation. Also, you will partner with cross-functional teams to enable Micron to meet business plan requirements by optimizing cost structure, ensuring quality standards, and securing a reliable supply.
Job Description
- Facilitate Technical Collaboration with Collaborators
- Understand technical market landscape and supplier capabilities and roadmaps
- Facilitate co-development activities, and technical roadmap collaboration with suppliers
- Coordinate with supplier safety issues (e.g. process hazards, maintenance procedures)
- Lead Procurement Sourcing Strategies (including creation through collaborator input, communication, and execution)
- Get along with Micron and Supplier executives
- Source and Select Suppliers to Meet Technical and Cost Requirements
- Drive sourcing requirements and supplier selection through decision matrix in support of technology development, cost reduction, and quality improvement efforts
- Partner with collaborators to assess Supply Chain risk for new sources
- Provide category-level analysis to influence sourcing decisions and ensure supplier meets the needs of customer, including Total Cost of Ownership, quality, performance and delivery requirements
- Initiate and negotiate contracts to completion for new suppliers
- Partner in Negotiation Processes to Enable Future Cost Structures
- Partner with collaborators on negotiations with suppliers for strategic sourcing/RFQ events
- Apply should / could cost modeling and other analytical techniques to drive negotiation process
- Ensure all new business awards and opportunities are coordinated to bring to bear global business volume
- Negotiate upfront Total Cost of Ownership commitments for time-based reductions
- Partner with internal collaborators to ensure spares contracts support equipment uptime and cost objectives.
- Identify and Implement Supplier-Related Savings Levers
- Incorporate savings targets and contract requirements across categories into negotiations
- Participate in supplier segmentation and strategic goal setting
- Provide market intelligence and price trends to relevant internal collaborators on a disciplined schedule
- Serve as the center of knowledge and share knowledge with key collaborators and members of the category teams to enable more effective planning, forecasting and execution
- Ensure Supplier Performance Management
- Partner with Supplier Managers and Stakeholders to build comprehensive view of supplier performance
- Assist Supplier Managers in relaying site-specific priorities to supplier
- Collaborate internally to drive and develop key performance measures/metrics and monitor supplier performance against these expectations to ensure continuous supplier improvement
- Lead in coordinating and delivering on supplier events, such as Quarterly Business Reviews, Annual Supplier Evaluations, and Executive Review Meetings
Requirement
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of experience within semiconductor manufacturing environments!
- 3 years of experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, or category management, preferably for capital equipment or complex technical commodities!
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively across cross‑functional teams, with strong interpersonal, communication, and collaborator management skills.
- Proven strength in complex problem‑solving, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and drive resolution in challenging situations.
- Demonstrated and shown negotiation capabilities, with a strong background in supplier relationship management, including commercial negotiations, performance management, and long‑term strategic partnership development.
