Senior Global Commodity Manager - Passives

Responsibilities

• Build cross-functional alignment with hardware engineering to identify commodity sourcing strategies to enable NVIDIA business segment requirements for Boards and System Supply Chain.
• Develop and manage supplier relationships and conduct supplier business reviews that improve suppliers value, performance, and account investments through aligned roadmaps.
• Negotiate Supplier Agreements, cost reduction strategies, and maintain lead-time, cost systems, and split of business decisions.
• Deliver a supplier risk management system, BOM risk reduction solutions, materials risk mitigation strategies, and maintaining data integrity to ensure supply resiliency.
• Rationalize and optimize the number of components and suppliers to capture synergies and reduce risk due to demand fluctuation.
• Enable early supplier involvement to bring innovation from the industry to deliver innovation on SOL (Speed of Light) project schedules.
• Concentrated effort in NPI to achieve industry leading time-to-market, establishing supplier selection criteria, alternative suppliers, qualify new suppliers, own the RFQ process, and drive supplier selection in partnership with Engineering.
• Provide complex capacity planning to support high volume ramp during NPI stages, informing Engineering and Management of any supply risks to Pre-release schedules, while also developing and enabling production and scale strategies for sustaining product and commodity growth to drive cost, lead time, continuity of supply, and risk mitigation leadership.

Requirements

• BS in Business, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• MBA Preferred.
• 12+ years' experience in global commodity management and proven track record in managing MLCC Supply Base.
• Deep understanding of MLCC technologies, market, manufacturing process, cost drivers and supply landscape.
• Strong analytical skills such as cost modeling, quotation analysis, supplier selection, and supply/demand analysis.
• Ability to incorporate AI tools to improve supply chain and sourcing analysis, data integrity, and decision making.
• Excellent negotiation and leadership skills in supplier management and contract negotiation.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills dealing with supply base executives.
• High degree of integrity, initiative, and attention to detail in a collaborative environment.
• Technical experience to compliment strong program management skills is preferred.