Technical Commodity Manager

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