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Strategic Sourcing Manager – Supporting IT
The Role
The Strategic Sourcing Manager will be responsible for supporting IT with category planning and strategic sourcing. This includes developing a global procurement strategy and implementing a supplier development program that has a coordinated long-term approach on cost, quality, and service. The Sourcing Manager will be responsible for negotiating pricing, service levels, master agreements and statements of work. Developing successful relationships with key partners, internal customers, and suppliers is key.
The Person
Needs to be self-starter and adept at identifying sourcing opportunities and driving sourcing initiatives with key partners—with minimum involvement from management. Outstanding negotiation and communication skills are critical to this role. Expectation is to have excellent communication and collaboration skills, ability to present to all levels.
Key Responsibilities
In this role you will work with business units to understand and set cost targets for our IT services. You will lead the strategic sourcing process & analysis, price negotiation, cost reduction, negotiate agreements and statement of work for the IT services. You will manage supplier's performance to contractual requirements which meet AMD short- and long-term needs and implement contracts to minimize AMD risk and enable supplier accountability for non-performance.

• Prepare Executive award summary and present for approvals.
• Implement all activities associated with Source-to-Pay such that orders are issued and invoiced in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate efficient and effective use of strategic sourcing and Procure-to-Pay processes.
• Understand cross-functional and cross site business processes to support operational (PO) process execution. Participate in process improvement initiatives.
• Lead Supplier Performance Management (SPM) with key suppliers and manage the quarterly scorecard to review service level on cost, technology, quality, service, and flexibility.
• Manage business reviews with strategic suppliers.
• Negotiate pricing, contracts, and statements of work with suppliers, internal clients and legal support.
• Develop commodity strategy which fully reflects requirements of the team members.
• Develop and make recommendations regarding sourcing strategies, requirements planning, and revenue generation using analytics.

Preferred Experience

• Commodity Strategy Planning
• SAP Ariba Sourcing
• Market Analytics
• Source to Pay
• Contract Negotiation
• Progressive experience with sourcing and negotiation experience in a strategic sourcing role
• Experience sourcing and negotiating IT costs in the semiconductor industry

Academic Credentials
Bachelor’s degree in business preferred.
Location:
Austin, TX
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