Sourcing Lead

Location

Singapore, Singapore

Team

Sourcing and Supply Chain Management

Work experience

4-9 years

Educational background

Other non-technical backgrounds

Travel

25%

Workplace type

Hybrid

Fulltime/parttime

Full time

New
**Job ID**:J-00291268

**Introduction to the job**

Are you up to the challenge of joining our strategic sourcing team which operates in a highly complex, dynamic business environment and do you have experience with sourcing strategies for our direct categories like Metrology, Light sources and Positioning Systems (examples: Optical components, Wafer Tables, EUV Clamps, Mirror/Encoder blocks and Chucks) in a demanding industry where ASML is a market leader? If so, then we should talk

**Role and responsibilities**

As an Account Lead you will drive and execute supplier development as well as the commercial relationships with suppliers within a cluster of strategic suppliers.

**Education and Experience**:

- Graduate degree in physics, engineering or another technical field preferred.
- Background and/or practical understanding of optics and ceramics manufacturing is beneficial.
- Ideally, a minim of 10-years' work experience, ideally in strategic procurement in a technology intensive industry.
- Business level English, additional regional language abilities beneficial

**Personal skills**
- Ability to identify and structure issues independently.
- Exceptional communication, presentation and negotiation skills up to executive level.
- Strong vision of supplier landscape and technology roadmap
- Strong supplier relationship skills; continuously, but constructively, demanding of suppliers' performance.
- Able to build strong (internal) network.
- Quick to understand a teams' dynamic.
- Able to get buy-in and commitment from both internal and external stakeholders.
- Willingness to “constructively dissent” and challenge management thinking on key purchasing issues.
- Accurate and able to maintain overview.
- Entrepreneurial

**Diversity and inclusion**:
ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

**Strategic vision**:

- Co-develop vision and targets of supplier landscape by pursuing critical technology roadmap and product roadmap in collaboration with category manager while considering regional needs.
- Negotiate (NPI-) contracts and represent Sourcing in complex internal projects.
- Co-define and execute category strategy and strategic actions plans at suppliers.

**Manage accounts**:

- Manage day-to-day contact with strategic suppliers (including owning agenda of interactions) and track all communication for full transparency.
- Prepare and oversee supplier negotiations including tactics, spend base analysis, script, dry-run and orchestrating stakeholders involved as well as all contract details.
- Track and formalize (long-term) supplier performance by executing Supplier Profile reviews based on Quality, Technology, Logistics, Cost and Sustainability (QLTCS), identifying gaps, initiating improvement opportunities, developing mitigation measures, and executing Cost of Goods roadmap.

**Formal decision making**:

- Flag and resolve escalations in time with the category manager in collaboration with other sectors related to supplier performance.
- Head review meetings with the Supplier Account Team.
- Prepare meetings regarding make/buy decisions and supplier selections which can be reviewed up to Executive Management.

EOE AA M/F/Veteran/Disability