Commodity Manager

The Commodity Manager at Intel Corporation collaborates with technical and business units to ensure timely supply chain delivery for test vehicles and products. This role involves maintaining substrate sourcing strategies, managing quotes, balancing costs, tracking manufacturing readiness, and resolving PO/invoice issues. The manager also develops commodity strategies, drives supplier development, and ensures compliance with Intel's business processes.

Must Have

• Collaborate with technical, platform and business unit/product stakeholder groups.
• Partner with internal technology segment Program Managers to maintain substrate sourcing strategy.
• Collect, vet, and distribute TV and new product introduction (NPI) quotes for new substrate designs.
• Manage substrate engineering demand forecasts and distribute them to suppliers.
• Track substrate high volume manufacturing (HVM) readiness for products owned.
• Facilitate supplier PO and invoice/payment resolutions when needed.
• Develops and executes commodity strategies, as well as drives supplier development.
• Maintains advanced knowledge of industry and market dynamics and commodities.
• Owns relationships and coordinates purchasing activities with cross functional teams.
• Ensures that the respective commodity meets business demand and cost requirements.
• Works with partner teams to capture commodity requirements and understand design influence on cost.
• Leads sustainability and regulatory compliance and ensures suppliers comply with Intel's business processes.
• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years or Master's degree with 3+ years relevant experience.
• Project management skills or certification.
• Experienced in managing the overall strategy of the supplier account.
• Experienced in SAP enterprise or similar systems for order management and procurement.
• Skilled in planning and closing contract negotiations.

Good to Have

• Experience with Semiconductor substrate manufacturing.
• Supplier capability analysis and capacity expansion requirements.
• Direct Supply Chain experience and/or technical degrees and experience.
• Lean Six Sigma.

Perks & Benefits

• Hybrid work model

Job Description:

• Collaborate with technical, platform and business unit/product stakeholder groups to ensure supply chain is enabled and ready to deliver on time per test vehicle (TV) and/or product schedules.
• Partner with internal technology segment Program Managers and others in the Substrate Business Group (SBG) to maintain the substrate sourcing strategy and manage TV and product line items within in.
• Collect, vet, and distribute TV and new product introduction (NPI) quotes for new substrate designs. Maintain the quote database and SAP system setup with pricing.
• Partner with TD team to balance (ROI) the cost/requirements imposed on suppliers by module requests. Highlight / escalate cost impacts.
• Manage substrate engineering demand forecasts and distribute them to suppliers. Interpret supplier-report responses into actionable supply chain decisions to maximize Intel's ability to fulfill substrate demands.
• Track substrate high volume manufacturing (HVM) readiness for products owned.
• Facilitate supplier PO and invoice/payment resolutions when needed (working with Finance and Supplier Managers).
• Manage and regularly report out SBG indicators regarding test vehicle or product substrate supply chain health.
• Develops and executes commodity strategies, as well as drives supplier development through innovation and collaboration.
• Maintains advanced knowledge of industry and market dynamics, and knowledge of commodities to drive supply chain solutions ahead of Intel's needs.
• Owns relationships and coordinates purchasing activities with cross functional teams to acquire materials and services in a cost effective and timely manner.
• Ensures that the respective commodity meets the business demand and cost requirements necessary for Intel to develop great products/services for its customers
• Works with partner teams to capture commodity requirements and understand how design can influence cost and give feedback.
• Leads sustainability and regulatory compliance and ensures suppliers comply with Intel's business processes

Qualifications:

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, technical or related field, or expect the required degree with 5+ years relevant experience - or - Master's degree in the same fields with 3+ years of relevant experience Relevant work experience should be of the following:

• Project management skills or certification.
• Experienced in managing the overall strategy of the supplier account from initial selection, through product development, into high volume manufacturing HVM, and long-term sustaining support.
• Experienced in SAP enterprise or similar systems for order management and procurement.
• Skilled in planning and closing contract negotiations to achieve immediate and long-term affordability requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Semiconductor substrate manufacturing, supplier capability analysis and capacity expansion requirements
• Direct Supply Chain experience and, or technical degrees and experience are a plus.
• Lean Six Sigma is highly desired.

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (Malaysia)

Primary Location:

Malaysia, Penang

Additional Locations:

Business group:

Intel Foundry strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art while delighting our customers -- from delivering cutting-edge silicon process and packaging technology leadership for the AI era, enabling our customers to design leadership products, global manufacturing scale and supply chain, through the continuous yield improvements to advanced packaging all the way to final test and assembly. We ensure our foundry customers' products receive our utmost focus in terms of service, technology enablement and capacity commitments. Employees in the Foundry Technology Manufacturing are part of a worldwide factory network that designs, develops, manufactures, and assembly/test packages the compute devices to improve the lives of every person on Earth.

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.