VP of Global Sourcing - Direct Materials

About the role

The VP of Global Sourcing - Direct Materials is responsible for creating enterprise-wide value by driving procurement excellence, achieving best cost, enabling business continuity, providing market intelligence, and acting as a trusted advisor to secure long-term growth. This role will elevate procurement maturity, embed advanced technologies including AI into solutioning, and position Sandisk as an industry leader in strategic sourcing and supplier partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Lead all direct material categories globally for Sandisk.
• Ensure continuous delivery of annual productivity through aggressive cost innovation.
• Drive spend leverage for select direct material to significantly higher savings.
• Responsible for global talent management.
• Provide thought leadership and vision to support the organizational objectives.
• Seen as a key strategic partner across all functions within the business.
• Drive procurement maturity by implementing advanced processes, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on supply market trends, risk management, and growth strategies.
• Champion business continuity planning and supplier risk mitigation.

Qualifications

• A proven, world-class global Purchasing leader with at least 15 years of experience in Purchasing, BPO, and supply chain, and ideally serving as the top Purchasing executive for a global semiconductor company with annual revenues over $2 billion for at least three years.
• A globally-minded leader with extensive experience doing business across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
• Strategic and operational capabilities, with a strong focus on business acumen, analytical skills, and results-oriented approach.

Purchasing Organization

Act as the senior executive supplier contact point, responsible for the E2E Purchasing processes (systems, policies and processes, P2P), cross business commodity coordination as required, and aligning Business Groups around the supplier strategy and supply base consolidation.

Purchasing Performance Optimization

• Ensure the optimum Purchasing performance to achieve quality, cost, timing, environmental, safety, sustainability, and technology requirements in line with business objectives.
• Deliver committed Key Performance Indicators.
• Roll out global materials forecasts and drive material lead-time reduction programs.
• Rationalize the supply base.
• Implement stringent procedures on supplier quality assurance and track progress.

Develop Purchasing Organization

• Drive a transition to a new organizational model.
• Drive the implementation of Purchasing Contract Management, aligning processes, master data management, and negotiation time schedules.
• Improve knowledge management and contract templates.
• Continue enhancing the skill sets of the Purchasing organization.
• Coach and develop key individuals.
• Lead the cross sector Purchasing talent process.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time, paid sick leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life, accident and disability insurance, tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts, employee assistance program, and other voluntary benefit programs.
• Eligibility for Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan and Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which includes RSUs or cash equivalents.
• Tuition reimbursement, transit, the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.