Technical Commodity Manager

Job description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Liaise with NPI Procurement, Design Engineers, Commodity Managers and other relevant stakeholders to ensure and drive a robust sourcing strategy at NPI phase for all Sandisk flash products, while ensuring continuity of supply and best in class components in BOMs. Provide technology expertise to commodity manager to develop supply base strategy. Drives supply base strategy by BOM screen at product design stage, propose 2nd sources or replacements, drive the technical qualification process. Provide expert technical support to the supplier/technology selection process. Make sure qualified suppliers or components are meeting Sandisk technical requirements, quality requirements, green policy requirements. Review suppliers’ technology roadmaps, ensure suppliers are meeting Sandisk technical requirements. REQUIRED: Bachelor degree or above in Engineering or Science with equivalent experience Min 4 years of professional experience, expert on electronic components, IC and project management. Relative experience as technical commodity management, product development, quality management or field application engineering is a must, hardware design experience is a plus. SKILLS: Ability to influence and convince Self-Motivator Communicate well in English both in verbal and written form Strong project management, organizational, and analytical skills required Excellent team facilitation and presentation skills required Ability to present to all level of management / stakeholders and articulate strategies and performance metrics