Strategic Sourcing Manager - PCBA/Server/Rack BOM
About the job
- Proficiency in supply chain principles and skills.
- Knowledge of PCBA, server, and rack bill of materials structures.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
- Partner with Engineering to select optimal solutions balancing cost, supply continuity, and scalability.
- Review and advise on draft component bills of materials to prevent end-of-life, not-recommended-for-new-design, incorrect part numbers, or industry-unique parts from entering AMD designs.
- Identify part leverage opportunities with Engineering to optimize cost and sourcing efficiency.
- Collaborate with Engineering on new tooling requests, such as connectors and chipset heatsinks, aligning technical needs with investment strategy.
- Engage directly with contract manufacturer vendors to support Engineering’s component studies, reviews, and dummy board population within AMD core teams.
- Participate in all new product introduction activities and maintain end-to-end visibility of project status with Engineering.
- Coordinate new product introduction sample demand planning with technical program managers and project managers to ensure timely material availability.
- Drive material shortage mitigation plans to protect new product introduction builds and schedules.
- Assess and communicate material supply risk, cost impact, and excess exposure resulting from specification and engineering change changes; collaborate with contract manufacturer vendors to reduce excess exposure for each design and production phase.
- Advance multi-source readiness in partnership with technical program managers and customer engineering to reduce single-source risk.
- Work with Engineering to define out-of-country and geographic-diversification strategies to strengthen supply resilience.
- Develop and execute risky-buy strategies supporting both new product introduction and mass production ramps.
- Work with technical program managers and Engineering to establish costed bills of materials and clarify non-recurring engineering assumptions at each new product introduction milestone.
- Lead product cost and non-recurring engineering reviews, bridge gaps, and negotiate with contract manufacturer vendors.
- Prepare budgetary pricing for internal and external stakeholders to support early decision-making.
- Drive budgetary approval processes to enable new product introduction and supplier readiness.
- Manage purchase orders end-to-end, from creation through delivery.
- Define business and supply-chain models aligned with platform and cloud service provider requirements.
- Partner with manufacturing program management to review manufacturing fixture needs and capacity plans based on cloud service provider enablement requests.
- Coordinate contract manufacturer deliverables to enable cloud service provider-assigned manufacturing partners.
- Experience in the server original equipment manufacturer/original design manufacturer manufacturing or server/system solution industry.
- Direct experience in cost management, procurement, or supply chain functions.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, including the ability to analyze data using pivot tables.
- Proficiency in English and bilingual proficiency in Mandarin.
About the company
AMD designs processors, graphics chips and AI accelerators for computer makers, cloud operators and businesses that build electronic devices. Its Ryzen processors power personal computers, while EPYC processors handle work in data centers and Radeon chips render graphics. Instinct accelerators run AI models, paired with software that developers use to train models and put them into production. AMD sells chips and related computing systems through equipment makers, distributors and retail channels, and contracts with outside foundries to fabricate its semiconductor designs. It was founded in 1969 and has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
Founded
1969
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What believers are saying
- Data centers drive growth: AMD's revenue rose 50% to $11.5 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
- US learning support is conditional: AMD reimburses up to $5,250 yearly for education, subject to manager approval and funding.
- Planned demand has an anchor: AMD's July 2026 Anthropic deal targets up to two gigawatts of computing from 2027.
What critics are saying
- Advanced chip supply relies on one foundry: TSMC makes all AMD processor and graphics wafers at 7nm or smaller.
- Gaming is shrinking despite AI growth: AMD's gaming revenue fell 31% to $779 million in the June 2026 quarter.
- Lab work limits location flexibility: AMD lists its Santa Clara optical-interconnect integration engineer role as on-site.
What makes AMD unique
- Two console families use its designs: AMD designs custom processors for Sony's PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Xbox Series.
- Developers inspect its GPU software: AMD's ROCm stack is open source, while Nvidia's CUDA platform remains proprietary.
- Chip circuitry stays adjustable: AMD sells adaptive processors whose hardware configuration changes after manufacture, without replacing the chip.
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