Supply Chain Business Manager

The Impact You’ll Make

At Lam, as a Supply Chain Business Manager, you play a crucial role in partnering with suppliers to drive operational excellence.

Your data-driven approach ensures effective planning, scheduling, and monitoring material movement through our dynamic global production cycle.

You’ll benchmark and monitor supplier performance to manage risk. By driving continuous supplier process improvements you support the productivity and efficiency of Lam's operations.

What You’ll Do

As a Supply Chain Business Manager you will help drive delivery and supplier operational excellence within a global supply chain.

This role is within the Supply Chain Operations team and is instrumental in helping Supply Chain navigate through record ramps and other operational complexities thrown our way.

In this position, you will help manage global factories and have responsibility for multiple suppliers within the Metal Machining and Wet Dep Plastics Commodity.

Responsibilities

• Plans, schedules, and monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle to determine required materials purchases.
• Defines metrics and monitor supplier performance against these expectations to ensure continuous supplier improvement.

Regularly evaluate quality and performance benchmarks, and the risks associated with the preferred supply base selection.

Continuously working on process improvement to deploy & develop best known methods related to procurement, inventory control (e.

g., JIT, Kanban, min / max) & manufacturing strategies

• Established goals with supplier to ensure material delivery meet forecasted demand.
• Represents supplier business management on a cross-functional commodity teams that focuses on supply challenges, and to ensure internal / external customer needs are satisfied.
• Works with engineering and the supplier to resolve complex problem to ensure on time delivery of critical material to support customer and company requirements.
• Develops presentation, white papers, process flow charts to support continues process improvement projects.
• Works with supplier to monitors product cost preventing negative PPV and supporting cost reduction efforts.
• Drive the improvement of the suppliers’ manufacturing processes to ensure product quality and on-time-delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Supply Chain.
• Eight (8) years’ experience in managing global factories and various commodities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skill
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems with scalable and repeatable results
• Knowledge, experience and practical use of Microsoft Excel, SAP or other ERP systems
• Advanced Microsoft Excel Skills - Macros, Pivot Tables, Data Lookup / Indexing, Dashboards
• Must be willing and able to travel up to 10% (including domestic and international), mostly domestic travel for internal meetings
• Public speaking / Executive level presentation skills
• Experience in managing $80-$100M of supplier spend

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.

Our Perks and Benefits

At Lam, our people make amazing things possible. That’s why we invest in you throughout the phases of your life with a comprehensive set of outstanding benefits.