Senior Director, Purchasing Jobs

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THE ROLE:

This role will be responsible for managing AMD’s commercial relationships with our wafer foundry partners.  This includes price negotiation, contracts, capacity commitments. delivery execution and supplier performance management, as well as defining and executing on the long term strategy for foundry engagements.  Wafer spend is the single largest cost to AMD’s COGS and the successful candidate will be able to understand the cost drivers and formulate solutions to maximize cost savings.   Candidate will be expected to establish and maintain relationships with key executives at foundry partners.  Requires strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to summarize complex issues for executives internal to AMD and with foundry partners.   Role will require partnering with functional, technical, legal, finance, and supply chain to execute commercial agreements.    

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand AMD’s product roadmaps and work with our manufacturing partners to ensure costs are in line to support
• Identify, develop and retain world-class talent
• Provide regular report outs to CEO and executive staff on progress to meet cost targets
• Develop a supplier scorecard and hold regular reviews with each strategic partner
• Develop negotiation strategies to reduce/eliminate supply shortages and provide cost management in line with AMD market share growth targets
• Responsible for all aspects of cost, quality and delivery required to achieve revenue and margin targets for AMD
• Create KPIs and strategic goals/milestones for the Foundry sourcing team
• Oversee inventory control to support customer needs, achieve balance sheet targets, and mitigate inventory risk

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Ability to engage in collaborative problem-solving efforts with C-level management and external contacts regarding supply chain issues as well as accounting and financial issues
• Electronics Industry experience
• Demonstrated successful experience at a senior manager level with broad supply chain responsibilities
• Demonstrated success with planning, conducting, and closing complex negotiations
• Multi-source supplier network & outsourced manufacturing experience
• Willingness to travel Internationally 
• Progressive responsibility in Supply Planning, Materials, Product Development, Procurement, and Logistics
• Basic understanding of wafer processing, drivers of wafer cost, and yield modeling
• Strong leadership and communications skills
• Experience in ERP initiatives, Advanced Planning Systems, and familiarity with a broad variety of supply chain concepts, practices, and procedures and specific expertise in global supply chain

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• BS/BA:  Specialty in Business, Supply Chain or Engineering with MBA preferred

LOCATION:

Austin, TX

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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