Vp Procurement, Flash

Company Description

The future. It’s on you. You & Western Digital.

We’ve been storing the world’s data for more than 50 years. Once, it was the most important thing we could do for data. Now we’re helping the world capture, preserve, access and transform data in a way only we can.

The most game-changing companies, consumers, professionals, and governments come to us for the technologies and solutions they need to capture, preserve, access, and transform their data.

But we can’t do it alone. Today’s exceptional data challenges require your exceptional skills. It’s You & Us. Together, we’re the next big thing in data.

Western Digital® data-centric solutions are found under the G-Technology, HGST, SanDisk®, Tegile, Upthere, and WD® brands.

Job Description

The mission of the VP Procurement is to support the businesses in adding value and reducing costs by being excellent in procurement strategy development and implementation, supply based management, supplier relationship management and transactional procurement processes.

With direct responsibility for the Western Digital’s general purchasing organization, this executive is expected to strengthen the global Purchasing organization and its capabilities to become an indispensable business partner on innovation and cost initiatives.

The role will develop long term sourcing strategies and actionable steps to improve operational performance, while ensuring best purchasing value and competitive advantage to support Western Digital businesses worldwide.

**Key areas of responsibility for this executive include the following**:

- Lead all categories within our **Flash procurement structure**:

- Ensure continuous delivery of double-digit annual purchasing savings 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

**Specific accountabilities are**:
**Purchasing Organization**
- Act as the senior executive supplier contact point
- Responsible for the E2E Purchasing processes (systems, policies and processes, P2P)
- Responsible for cross business commodity coordination as required
- Align Business Groups around the supplier strategy and supply base consolidation
- Develop/implement Purchasing outsourcing strategy

**Optimize Purchasing performance**
- 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 on E.g. savings and DPO
- 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

Qualifications

**Executive leadership**
- This individual will have at least 15 years of experience in Purchasing, BPO and supply chain, and ideally will have already served as the top Purchasing executive for a global semiconductor company with annual revenues over $2 billion for at least three years’ time. With a proven track record of forming win-win partnerships with suppliers, this executive should bring both a strategic and ‘hands on’ mindset and a proven track record in change management.

**Global experience**
- A globally-minded leader, this executive will be at home doing business across Europe, the Americas and Asia. This person will be comfortable with diverse teams of people and should be culturally attuned to succeeding in a complex global environment.

**Business acumen**
- Must have the strategic capability to devise short
- and long
- term Purchasing strategies, balanced by the operational capability to implement them. It is critical that this individual has strong general business acumen and can play a key role on the broader senior leadership team. This executive must also be highly analytical, process-driven and results-oriented, with a bias for action.

**Executing for results**

**Leading teams**

**Strong Communicator/Influencer**
- This individual must be highly collaborative and able to work effectively outside the sphere of direct influence, have strong leadership skills and be able to communicate clearly with a wide range of constituents in a highly matrixed organization. In addition, they must have a sharp business mind and be capable of