Senior Manager

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Job Description Summary:

Provide strategic leadership for Diffusion, Implant, RTP, Pumps, Chillers & Abatement and MFG Tech categories procurement across Micron's global front-end manufacturing network. The role is responsible for category strategy, supplier management, commercial negotiations, capital equipment affordability, and technology roadmap alignment while ensuring supply assurance and execution excellence.

Job Description:
 

Category & Supplier Strategy

• Own sourcing and category strategies for Diffusion, Implant, RTP, Pumps, Chillers & Abatement and MFG Tech equipment suppliers.
• Develop long-term supplier roadmaps aligned with Micron technology and manufacturing objectives.
• Drive supplier competitiveness, capability, innovation and risk mitigation strategies.
• Lead executive supplier reviews and strategic business planning activities.

Commercial Leadership

• Lead complex commercial negotiations involving capital equipment purchases, service agreements, capacity commitments and strategic partnerships.
• Deliver sustainable cost improvements, productivity gains and capital efficiency.
• Establish and govern commercial frameworks supporting business growth and technology transitions.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Technology Development, HVM Operations, Manufacturing, Finance, Planning and Legal teams.
• Translate business requirements into supplier strategies and commercial solutions.
• Support node development, fab expansion and ramp readiness activities.

Supply Assurance & Risk Management

• Ensure equipment availability supports technology development and HVM ramp schedules.
• Identify and mitigate capacity, supply continuity and geopolitical risks.
• Develop contingency and business continuity plans for critical suppliers.

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop procurement professionals supporting the category.
• Build succession capability and technical-commercial expertise within the organization.
• Drive a high-performance and customer-focused culture.

Scope

• Global responsibility for Diffusion, Implant, RTP, Pumps, Chillers & Abatement and MFG Tech categories
• Strategic engagement with major semiconductor equipment suppliers.
• Direct influence on capital spending, supplier performance and technology readiness.
• Leadership of a global procurement team supporting multiple sites and stakeholders.

Job requirements & preferred experiences:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Microelectronics, Business Administration, Engineering Management, or related field, followed by >10 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or in a Process Engineering or Supply Chain-related occupation.

Technical Skills

• • Strong experience insupplier management and commercial negotiations, including contract execution, price benchmarking, and total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis within a semiconductor or capital equipment environment.
  • Proven capability insupplier qualification, performance management, and RFQ execution, with hands-on experience driving cost, quality, and delivery improvements across assigned supplier portfolios.
  • Working knowledge offront-end capital equipment procurement (e.g., wafer fab tools, modules, or subsystems), with ability to balance technical and commercial trade-offs in supplier engagements.

Soft Skills (Including People Leadership)

• • Provenpeople management and team leadership experience, with ability to coach and develop Category/Supplier Managers, set clear priorities, and drive accountability in delivering team and organizational objectives.
  • Strongstakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills, with ability to align engineering, operations, and procurement teams to execute sourcing strategies effectively.
  • Stronganalytical thinking and problem-solving capability, with ability to translate data, supplier performance insights, and market intelligence into actionable plans and drive issue resolution.
  • Clear and effectivecommunication skills, with ability to present business updates, risks, and recommendations to leadership and guide team members in structured communication.
  • Experience managing ateam of >5 sourcing or supplier managersin a global or multi-site environment
  • Track record of buildinghigh-performing teams and improving team capability/productivity

AI / Digital Capability

• • Ability toleverage digital procurement tools and AI-enabled analytics(e.g., spend analytics, dashboards, data visualization, or AI-assisted insights) to enhance supplier management, improve decision-making, and drive operational efficiency within the team.

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich lifefor all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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