Supply Chain Business Manager

**The Group You’ll Be A Part Of**

The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

**The Impact You’ll Make**

Plans, schedules and monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle to determine required materials purchases. Obtains materials using engineering and production schedules to maintain inventory at planned levels (i.e., Just in Time purchases, use of EOQ - Economic Order Quantities). Resolves discrepancies. Creates and maintains bills of material and parts/commodities numbers in supply chain management or other enterprisewide systems. Ensures material standards are met and non-conformances or variances are approved and/or minimized. Develops specifications for new contract orders. Gathers quotations, examines bids and makes awards. Monitors cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontracts to assure best quality at best value. Evaluates vendor reliability and develops new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are no longer competitive.

**What You’ll Do**
- Plans, schedules and monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle to determine required materials purchases.
- Defines metrics and monitor supplier performance against these expectations to ensure continuous supplier improvement. Regularly evaluate quality and performance benchmarks, and the risks associated with the preferred supply base selection.
- Continuously working on process improvement to deploy & develop best known methods related to procurement, inventory control (e.g., JIT, Kanban, min/max) & manufacturing strategies
- **Established goals with supplier to ensure material delivery meet forecasted demand**.
- Represents supplier business management on a cross-functional commodity teams that focuses on supply challenges, and to ensure internal/external customer needs are satisfied.
- Works with engineering and the supplier to resolve complex problem to ensure on time delivery of critical material to support customer and company requirements.
- Develops presentation, white papers, process flow charts to support continues process improvement projects.
- Works with supplier to monitors product cost preventing negative PPV and supporting cost reduction efforts.
- Drive the improvement of the suppliers’ manufacturing processes to ensure product quality and on-time-delivery.
- **Management key performance metrics** - supplier OTD, consignment, inventory & E&O mitigation.

**Who We’re Looking For**
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred; preferred fields: Business and/or Supply Chain
- 10-12 years’ experience in **managing global factories and various commodities**:

- Excellent verbal and written communication skill
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems with scalable and repeatable results
- Knowledge, experience and practical use of Microsoft Excel, SAP or other ERP systems
- Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills - Macros, Pivot Tables, Data Lookup/Indexing, Dashboards
- Must be willing and able to travel up to 10% (including domestic and international), mostly domestic travel for internal meetings

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Public speaking/ Executive level presentation skills
- Experience in managing $80-$100M of supplier spend.

**Our Commitment**

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.
- Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories - On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time._