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The group you’ll be a part of
The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.

The group you’ll be a part of
The Global Operations Group brings information systems, facilities, supply chain, logistics, and high-volume manufacturing together to drive the engine of our global business operations. We help Lam deliver industry-leading solutions with speed and efficiency, while actively supporting the resilient and profitable growth of Lam's business.
The impact you’ll make
As a leader in Lam’s Global Supplier Management organization, this critical position requires a passionate, driven leader who will architect and deliver strategic directions to the organization’s supply chain, ensuring the company is positioned to be a winner in a complex, fast paced, highly competitive industry. Initial focus will be to architect commodity supply chain to support a growing global business with a high degree of complexity. This includes aligning resources, prioritizing strategies, establishing targets, and implementing growth and cost initiatives that support the broader business strategy
This executive position resides within the Global Operations Supply Chain organization and reports to the head of Strategic Commodities. This person will collaborate with the Executive management team, Supply Chain Executives and Product Group Executives. Location of the position is in Lam Research Malaysia and will include Global Supplier Management.
What You’ll Do
You will be responsible to develop and execute to a 3-year vision, strategy and organizational structure to manage suppliers for PCBAs and electronic components. You & your team will be responsible for architecting and delivering a complete end to end strategy.

• Supplier selection (Expansion & consolidation) that meet business needs
• Deliver & focus supplier investments (R&D & capacity expansions) that are aligned with Lam’s needs
• Responsible for commercial negotiation that result in achieving annual objectives for cost, quality, lead time & flexibility
• Lead sourcing negotiations.
• Drive business processes that enable effective prioritization and facilitate faster customer solutions.
• Provide inspired leadership and direction to the global supply chain organization where you build and develop a world class team in an environment where successful people want to work.
• Lead a geographically dispersed team of ~10 employees, including some matrix employees.
• Instill a culture of quality and discipline with all our suppliers.
• Develop and execute the optimum geographic distribution of the organization to get the desired results
• Manage supplier relationships to deliver negotiated value
• Ability to make decisions under pressure and with ambiguity
• Be able to navigate Lam and supplier constraints such as source locking and moving suppliers
• Develop strong & collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders (Product Groups) to operate across boundaries & prioritize the activities of the organization to achieve best in class results
• Develop and present meaningful and impactful messages to a wide array of audiences: C-level, Peer VPs, Global Supply Chain, Suppliers and Customers
  

Who We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Operations, Supply Chain, or Engineering Equivalent, MBA or equivalent post graduate qualification desirable
• Minimum of 15 years of professional experience, preferably with a minimum of 5 years in executive management roles.
• Has worked in an executive leadership role within a global matrix managed multi-site company with manufacturing and supplier operations spread over multiple continents with at least $1 billion in revenue.
• Has extensive experience interfacing with customers and suppliers and managing these relationships on product issue identification, problem resolution and total experience.
• Demonstrated business orientation and proactive leadership that identifies and anticipates problems, issues, and risks to project outcomes and manages those issue in advance of a critical situation.
• Demonstrated success at using rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
• Hands on approach. Attention to detail.
• Proven record in leading a large organization to new level of performance
• Has led and developed high performing teams and demonstrated ability to maintain and engage staff.
• Interpersonal and leadership skills across multiple cultures in North America, Europe, and Asia
• Be able to lead & influence technically strong employees
• Believe, practice and reward core values (achievement, honesty and integrity, innovation and continuous improvement, mutual trust and respect, open communication, ownership and accountability, teamwork, think customer, company, individual)
• Executive presentation skills for internal and external executive presentations
• Operational background required
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in Lean Six Sigma Master blackbelt preferred
• Experience in Semi-Conductor or High-Tech Industry preferred
  

Our commitment
We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.
Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.
Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time. Seniority level

• Seniority level Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type Full-time

Job function

• Job function Other
• Industries Semiconductor Manufacturing

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