Global Supply Management

1. Global Supply & Demand Management

• Own global supply management for assigned RAID, NIC, GPU and related commodities.
• Translate global demand, backlog, forecasts, and business priorities into actionable supplier supply plans.
• Identify supply constraints, shortages, and potential disruptions early and drive mitigation actions.
• Develop allocation and prioritization strategies during constrained supply situations.
• Ensure supply plans support customer requirements, revenue commitments, manufacturing schedules, and business priorities.

2. Supplier Management

• Manage supplier operational performance including supply commits, delivery performance, lead time, flexibility, responsiveness, and recovery execution.
• Conduct regular supply reviews with strategic suppliers and drive closure of supply gaps.
• Establish effective supplier escalation mechanisms for critical shortages or business-impacting issues.
• Work with suppliers to improve capacity visibility, commit accuracy, and supply flexibility.

3. Inventory Optimization

• Balance supply assurance and inventory efficiency, ensuring adequate supply protection while avoiding unnecessary inventory exposure.
• Manage inventory within established KPI targets and drive actions to mitigate excess and obsolete inventory risks.
• Monitor demand changes, lead-time changes, purchase commitments, and supply upside/downside exposure.
• Partner with Planning, Procurement and Finance teams to optimize global inventory positioning.

4. Shortage & Risk Management

• Proactively identify supply risks related to capacity, semiconductor availability, product transitions, supplier dependencies, geopolitical events, and logistics disruptions.
• Lead cross-functional shortage management and recovery plans.
• Develop contingency strategies including alternative supply, upside capacity, allocation optimization, and qualification of alternate solutions where appropriate.
• Provide clear management-level visibility of critical supply risks, business impact, recovery timing, and required decisions.

5. Cross-functional & Global Collaboration

• Partner closely with GCM, Engineering, Planning, Sales, Operations, Manufacturing, Finance/OE-CF, quality teams, regional procurement organizations, and suppliers.
• Coordinate supply execution across global manufacturing locations and regions including China, Mexico, Brazil, India, Europe and other operational sites.
• Support new product introductions, product transitions, end-of-life planning, and supplier/component changes from a supply-management perspective.
• Drive alignment between commercial strategy, technical roadmap, demand outlook, supplier capacity, and operational execution.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
• 8+ years in supply chain, supply management, procurement, commodity management, planning, or supplier management.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes including demand planning, supply planning, supplier commits, PO execution, inventory management, and shortage management.
• Experience managing complex global supply situations and working with multiple manufacturing sites and regional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex supply-demand data into actionable decisions.
• Strong supplier negotiation, escalation, and relationship-management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills in a global, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities in a fast-changing supply environment.
• Strong Excel/data-analysis capability and experience using enterprise supply-planning/ERP tools.

Preferred Qualification

• Candidates from competitors with similar previous roles
• Master of AI tools.