Senior Business Procurement Manager

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21 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

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💵 $147.7k - $209.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Western Digital

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B2C • B2B • Hardware

Western Digital is a leading manufacturer of data storage solutions, including solid state drives (SSDs), hard drives (HDDs), USB flash drives, and memory cards. The company provides a broad range of products for various uses, such as gaming, video surveillance, and data backup. They also offer solutions for data centers, network-attached storage (NAS), and digital photography. Western Digital is renowned for their innovation in developing storage technologies that meet the needs of both consumers and businesses.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1970

👥 B2C

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

💰 $900M Post-IPO Equity on 2023-01

📋 Description

• Act as the procurement business partner to designated product lines and business units; translate business strategies into clear sourcing plans, roadmaps, and OKRs. • Build joint value plans with stakeholders (Engineering, Product, Operations, Finance, Quality) to enable NPI ramps, product migrations, and cost/feature targets. • Provide proactive market intelligence and should-cost insights to influence product/technology decisions early. • Lead programs in digitization (eProcurement, analytics, SRM), process redesign (S&OP integration, VAVE intake), and governance (policy, delegation of authority, compliance). • Stand up should-cost models, clean-sheet analyses, and parametric cost drivers to inform negotiation strategies and NPI business cases. • Champion standard work and maturity improvements across category playbooks, contracting, and supplier onboarding. • Own annual and multi-year savings and cost avoidance targets; partner with Finance to validate, track, and report benefits. • Enable NPI readiness: supplier selection, PPAP/qualification, ramp readiness, capacity commitments, and lead-time/CT pull-down. • Monitor and improve key metrics: PPV, TCO, inventory turns, on-time delivery, quality PPM, supplier OTD, and resilience indices. • Support commodity teams to drive commodity best practices, including strategy development, risk mitigation, and supplier portfolio optimization. • Collaborate on supplier negotiations and contracting to ensure consistency with global standards and governance.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred. • 8–12+ years of progressive procurement/category management experience in electronics/semiconductor, high-tech manufacturing, or adjacent industries. • Demonstrated success supporting commodity strategies and supplier management programs. • Experience partnering with Product/Engineering on NPI and lifecycle management; familiarity with PPAP or equivalent qualification protocols. • Strong grasp of cost structures (materials, conversion, test), should-cost, and value engineering (VAVE). • Proficiency with procurement/SRM tools, Excel/analytics; familiarity with ERP (SAP/Oracle) and PLM systems. • Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and executive presentation skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid vacation time • Paid sick leave • Medical/dental/vision insurance • Life, accident and disability insurance • Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts • Employee assistance program • Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity • Tuition reimbursement • Transit • Employee stock purchase plan • Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan