Full-Time Sr. Business Procurement Manager

The Sr. Business Procurement Manager aligns Procurement with business line priorities to unlock value across cost, quality, delivery, and innovation. You will serve as the primary procurement partner to product/business line leaders and drive transformational initiatives across sourcing, supplier development, risk mitigation, and commercialization/NPI. This role balances business partner engagement, procurement best practices, and change leadership to support Sandisk’s growth, resilience, and margin goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Business Partner Alignment & Strategy: 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 to enable NPI ramps, product migrations, and cost/feature targets. Provide proactive market intelligence and should-cost insights to influence product/technology decisions early.
• Transformational Procurement Initiatives: Lead programs in digitization, process redesign, and governance. 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.
• Financial & Operational Performance: 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.
• Commodity & Supplier Management Support: Support commodity teams to drive commodity best practices, including strategy development, risk mitigation, and supplier portfolio optimization. Partner with category managers to ensure alignment of sourcing strategies with business priorities and technology roadmaps. Assist in supplier management programs and collaborate on supplier negotiations and contracting.

Required: 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. Experience partnering with Product/Engineering on NPI and lifecycle management. Strong grasp of cost structures, should-cost, and value engineering. Proficiency with procurement/SRM tools, Excel/analytics; familiarity with ERP and PLM systems. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and executive presentation skills.

Preferred: Knowledge of NAND/DRAM ecosystems, controllers, substrates, packaging/test, or EMS. Experience implementing procurement transformation. Certifications: CPSM, CSCP, PMP, or similar. Global sourcing experience.

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