Principal Category Supplier Manager

About our Team:
Micron Technology’s vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life and our commitment to people, innovation, tenacity, collaboration, and customer focus allows us to fulfill our mission to be a global leader in memory and storage solutions. This means conducting business with integrity, accountability, and professionalism while supporting our global community.

Position Overview:

As an Indirect Regional Supplier Manager, you will be the primary category point of contact for supplier interactions, performance management, and negotiations. In this role, you will engage in supplier benchmarking analysis to formulate, lead and execute 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 regional supplier information.

Role Responsibilities & Tasks:

• Category Strategy & Projects:
  In this role, you will partner with internal stakeholders to build comprehensive view of supplier performance for continued sourcing success. You will lead the development and implementation of category strategies and projects related but not limited to cost reduction initiatives, supply base optimization, and contract negotiation. This is accomplished through building and maintaining strategic supplier relationship to meet the category strategy goals and needs.

• Manage Supplier Relationship Regionally
  Act as primary point of contact for assigned suppliers/contractors in assigned category
  Perform commercial supplier qualification activities to ensure the commercial development of strategic suppliers
  Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with supplier(s) while effectively resolving supplier performance/capability issues
  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 should-cost models for assigned categories that are benchmarked and relevant to the global marketplace
  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 assigned supplier/contractors create, negotiate, monitor and enforce contracted terms and conditions

• Ensure Supplier Performance Management
  Partner with stakeholders 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 key regional 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education:
  Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Business Administration/Management, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field of study

• Experience:
  Min 8 years' experience in any of the following:

  • Construction Project Management

  • Purchasing/Procurement in Construction

  • Quantity Surveying, Estimating

  • Contractor or Subcontractor Management

  • Engineering (CSA, Electrical, Mechanical, Process) - with experience in construction

Preferred Qualifications:

• Desired certification or licensing: APICS, PMI, CPM, CPSM, EIT, PE or other related fields of study

• Experience in Construction, Estimating, Quantity Surveying and Construction Project Procurement and Management preferred

• Construction industry professional with expert knowledge on construction costs and contracts.

• Manage the costs on a construction project and help to ensure that the construction project is completed within its projected budget.

• Experience with Cost Planning; Life Cycle Costing; Value Management; Value Engineering; Project Management; Preliminary Cost Advice; Procurement Methods; Contractual Advice; Tendering; Valuation of Construction Work; Cost Control & Financial Management; Financial Claims & Program Analysis; Dispute Resolution; Insurance Advice

• Experience evaluating suppliers/bidders, products, and services, negotiating contracts, and ensuring that approved purchases are cost-efficient and of high quality.

• Negotiation Strategy; Tactical Negotiation Plan; Prepare the tender documents; Oversee the tendering process and opening of bids; Contract Administration; monitoring the work rate and payments, and making sure it is in compliance with contracts; Weighing up tenders from potential suppliers; Negotiating prices; Agreeing contracts; Researching and identifying new products and suppliers; Managing a procurement team; Working across departments to win best value for the company; Ensuring suppliers deliver on time; Keeping up with market trends; Making key final decisions on what to buy before building work can get started; Responsible for whole projects and a team of people; Negotiating, networking and working with figures - analyze data; Weighing up tenders from potential suppliers; All change management of contracts; The final settlement