Sr Staff - Commodity / Vendor management - NPI

About the role

The Sr Commodity Manager / NPI lead role at LinkedIn is responsible for driving sourcing strategy, cost management, and supply assurance for the company's datacenter hardware portfolio. This role ensures secure, scalable, and cost-efficient access to critical components for new products that support LinkedIn's rapidly growing global compute footprint.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the strategy across CPU, GPU, DRAM, NAND, HDD etc. Monitor market trends, silicon transitions, pricing cycles, supply health and technology roadmaps. Provide insights to inform LRP and annual hardware budget decisions.
• Manage day-to-day and strategic relationships with suppliers across silicon, OxM and component vendors. Lead QBRs, roadmap alignment sessions and performance scorecards. Drive escalations to resolve supply, quality or commercials.
• Secure quarterly and annual supply allocations with commodity and OxM vendors, partner with supply planning to ensure accuracy in consumption and forecast to prevent shortages. Mitigate risk for long lead time items, partnering with engineering on SKU selection.
• Lead negotiations including pricing, LTAs, volume discounts, rebates. Develop cost models to influence engineering decisions and identify cost optimizations through multi vendor strategies and roadmap optimization.
• Oversee product qualification in partnership with Hardware engineering to influence architecture decisions and vendor selection. Drive quality improvements, RMA terms, AFR metrics and supplier corrective actions. Drive decisions on EOL transitions, component refresh cycle, and adoption of new technology.
• Work closely with engineering to influence hardware architecture decisions and vendor selection. Partner with capacity planning, supply planning and DC operations to understand deployment needs / timelines. Collaborate with finance on cost forecast and CapEx modeling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 12+ years of experience in commodity management, vendor management and hardware sourcing or supply chain for datacenter/enterprise
• Experience managing silicon, memory and storage components
• Background in silicon lifecycles, DRAM/NAND market dynamics and datacenter hardware architecture
• Background in negotiations and ability to manage executive level relationships
• Experience leading complex technical programs in compute, storage, or networking hardware
• Demonstrated analytical skills with ability to model cost, supply and risk tradeoffs
• Experience working with suppliers, contract manufacturers, and global production teams

Skills

• Systems Thinking
• Cross-functional Communication
• Stakeholder Management
• Hardware Infrastructure

Benefits

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.

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