Supply Chain Manager

To make electronics, you need chips, wafers, transistors, reticles, and... To make these, you must see, test and manufacture them at scale-faster and better than ever before. That's where KLA comes in. Whether you're early in your career or an experienced professional, you'll solve complex challenges, work alongside brilliant minds and help shape the future of technology. Group/DivisionKLA has manufacturing sites worldwide. The Global Operations (GOPS) team, comprised of Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Installation and Quality, builds our leading-edge technology. GOPS partners with KLA's global supply base and design engineering teams to develop new products, working continuously to build better, faster and more cost-efficient solutions. What You'll Do In this role, you will play a key part in advancing business priorities by delivering high-impact work across your area of expertise. Overall, responsibilities include leading the team in the following activities: *Effectively lead and manage supplier relationships. *Leads supply chain management initiatives on lead time reduction, cost reduction, value engineering, quality, reliability, and OTD. *Understand company business requirements, market dynamics and trends, supply base and supply base capabilities. *Provide sophisticated problem resolution and cross functional support for supplier escalations and supply disruptions, by expediting supply recovery. Including creation of and report outs of executive summaries and presentations to senior management. *Partner with manufacturing to perform capacity analysis to support what-if scenarios, forecast changes, planning for production growth, and growth in spares business to support worldwide install base of tools. *Performs continuity of supply risk assessment and develops/implements mitigation strategies *Develop supply plans for constrained and long-lead-time components. *Partner with manufacturing, design engineering, and manufacturing design engineering to ensure KLA and/or supplier-initiated supply chain relocations are successful *Drive assessment of raw parts cost, supplier quality, supplier capability and capacity (ramp-up / ramp-down), and supplier consolidation. *Perform assessments and make recommendations related to inventory forecasting, timing of inventory receipts, excess and obsolete optimization / reduction, and order quantity optimization. *Collaborates with production planning, supply chain, and master scheduling teams to propose supply chain solutions and strategic or tactical plans, drawing on business data, commodity insights, and product expertise. *Implement, manage and coordinate supplier contracts, SOWs, SLAs, NDAs and any other required supplier agreements. *Lead, co-ordinate and manage supplier business reviews. Continually drive improvements based on gap analysis against business requirements. *Lead, develop, build and deploy supplier scorecards. *Drives corporate and divisional initiatives to achieve performance targets *Crafts, implement and/or drives industry and company supply chain best practices. *Ensure adherence to corporate supply chain management best practices, policies, procedures and internal / external compliance requirements. Preferred Qualifications: 7 years of experience in supply chain operations and supply chain improvements in complex manufacturing environment; strong preference for experience in semiconductor equipment industry or other complex, high-mix, low-volume products Experience with multiple aspects of advanced supply chain operations, including: Supply and demand management effectiveness (upturn and downturns), material hedging strategies, product transition management, and obsolescence. Strong leadership, negotiation and people management skills Lead thru curiosity and continuous improvements