Sr Category Supplier Manager

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JR19649 SR CATEGORY SUPPLIER MANAGER

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
As the Sr. Indirect Category Supplier Manager for Global MRO & Facilities services, you will be responsible for establishing the category strategy and supplier relationships for Global Facilities MRO materials spend. You will partner with Global & Site Facilities and Regional Procurement teams to develop Global category strategies, work with Micron Legal to determine the contract strategy needed to support each project, and then drive compliance to that contract. Your primary goal is to deliver the greatest value of each project, which require strong sourcing (negotiating), contracting, supplier management, and overall project management skills.

In this role, you are expected to collaborate with Regional procurement teams, 3rd party service providers and supplier account teams across multiple categories and regions, in an indirect leadership role. You will engage in and lead the development and implementation of category strategies to optimize cost, supply, and quality. Additional responsibilities include negotiating terms, conditions and pricing to leverage spend, leading and participating in department projects, serving as a primary contact for industry and supplier information, and acting as a mentor for other members within the Procurement organization.

**REPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS**
**Manage Supplier Relationship Globally**:

- Act as primary point of contact for assigned suppliers and projects
- 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 business ethics, code-of-conduct programs, and corporate safety policies and 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

**Drive Negotiations with Suppliers**:

- Lead or participate in negotiations for contract
- Lead on sourcing events/RFQ process
- Develop a contract strategy for each project, including to create, negotiate, monitor and enforce contracted terms and conditions
- Incorporate savings targets and contract requirements into negotiations

**Manage Supplier Performance**:

- Partner with stakeholders and sites teams to build comprehensive view of supplier performance
- Collect and relay site specific priorities to suppliers
- Own and manage overall Strategic Supplier relationships for category
- 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

**Create and Implement Category Strategy**:

- Participate in supplier segmentation and strategic goal setting
- Provide market intelligence and price trends to relevant internal stakeholders on a disciplined schedule
- Utilize should-cost models for assigned categories that are benchmarked and relevant to the global marketplace

**EDUCATION**:

- Bachelor's Degree or higher
- PMP certification or equivalent, preferred

**EXPERIENCE**
Required
- Manage multiple large-scale projects concurrently, ability to work with mínimal supervision; strong project management skills
- 5+ years experience in Facilities, MRO materials Procurement.
- Proficient in MS office
- Comfort around Senior Leaders and Executives, ability to create and deliver executive-level presentations preferred

**WORKPLACE**
Travel Required?
- Yes

**About Micron Technology, Inc.**

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Micron Prohibits the use of child labor and complies with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and other international and industry labor standards.