Responsibilities:
- Lead Site Supplier Performance and Relationships
- Own procurement process for designated areas and accounts
- Negotiate with suppliers to meet business needs
- Support capital budgeting and cash flow management, and the execution of Global Procurement strategies
- Handle cost saving initiatives and metric
- Implement cost savings and process improvement programs
- Have deep knowledge to serve as a consultant for procurement process and supplier issues.
- Support site audits
Manage Supplier Relationship
- Act as primary point of contact for assigned suppliers and process areas
- Perform commercial supplier qualification activities to ensure the commercial development of strategic suppliers
- Maintain collaborative relationships with supplier(s) while effectively resolving supplier performance/capability issues to ensure alignment with Micron's strategic direction
- Ensure suppliers comply with Micron's code-of-conduct programs and corporate social responsibility initiatives
- Communicate key supplier management updates and decisions to multiple levels in the organization including Executive Leadership
- Enlist senior management, when appropriate, to help reinforce commitment and involvement from suppliers
- Provide the voice of the supply base to Micron and provide the voice of Micron to the supply base
Identify and Implement Supplier-Related Savings Levers
- Participate in supplier segmentation and strategic goal setting
- Provide market intelligence and category price trends to relevant internal stakeholders on a disciplined schedule
- Utilize cost models for assigned categories that are benchmarked and relevant to the
- Serve as the center of knowledge for assigned category and share knowledge with key stakeholders and members of the category teams to enable more effective planning, forecasting and execution
Drive Negotiations with Suppliers for Sustaining Purchases
- Lead or participate in negotiations for contract extensions and renewals, renegotiation of prices, transfers, etc.
- Coordinate with Category Sourcing Manager (where relevant) or lead sourcing events/RFQ process into bundled negotiation
- Incorporate savings targets and contract requirements into negotiations
- Develop a contract strategy for suppliers in assigned categories and create, negotiate, monitor and enforce contracted terms and conditions
Ensure Supplier Performance Management
- Partner with category team and sites to build comprehensive view of supplier performance
- Collect and relay site specific priorities to suppliers
- Own and manage overall Strategic Supplier relationships within the assigned categories
- Collaborate internally to drive and develop key performance measures/metrics for Strategic Suppliers and monitor supplier performance against these expectations to ensure continuous supplier improvement
- Lead in organizing and delivering on strategic supplier events, such as Quarterly Business Reviews, Annual Supplier Evaluations, and Executive Review Meetings
