Commodity/Procurement Manager (IT Services and MRO)
Western Digital
- Batu Kawan, Pulau Pinang
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop, lead and execute commodity strategy for local and regional initiatives for IT commodity in factory production environment.
- Analyze market conditions for assigned commodities and implement sourcing strategies to assure supply and price competitiveness.
- Develop commodity plan to provide visibility to subcategory spends, supplier summaries and stakeholder engagement plans.
- Develop the supply base to exceed the goals and objectives of the company and Indirect Procurement team, e.g. supplier development and assessment.
- Negotiate Price/Contracts, conduct and follow RFQ/RFP/BPA process to ensure best pricing, terms and conditions.
- Develop a cost modeling tool to determine true component value of assigned commodity(s)
- Be a leader in ensuring that maximizing our purchase leverage for the best total cost of ownership
- Be a central interface between supplier, IT, production, finance, SQE, legal and buyers etc.
- Develop and implement supplier relationship management program
- Ensure the commodity supply base adheres to company standards of Corporate Social Responsibilities including but not limited to Environmental, Ethical, Legislative, and Regulatory requirements
- Drive continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management
- Ensure the efficient and timely exchange of knowledge and information to ensure best practices are shared throughout the Indirect Procurement organization
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Semiconductor, Electronics, Engineering, Business, Supply Chain Management or other relevant discipline preferred
- Minimum of 10 years’ strategic sourcing experience for information technology or indirect categories in a high volume manufacturing environment or similar
- Strong communication skills and negotiation skills
- Strong analytical, problem solving and decision making skills
- Strong sense of responsibility and team spirit in multi-function program
- Able and willing to travel across internationally if required
- Good English skills, both in verbal and written. Mandarin is a plus
- Computer literate and have good working experience in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.