Supply Chain Business Manager (all genders)

The Impact You’ll Make

At Lam, as a Supply Chain Business Manager, you play a crucial role in partnering with suppliers to drive operational excellence. Your data-driven approach ensures effective planning, scheduling, and monitoring material movement through our dynamic global production cycle. You’ll benchmark and monitor supplier performance to manage risk. By driving continuous supplier process improvements you support the productivity and efficiency of Lam's operations.

What You’ll Do

• Define, monitor, and evaluate supplier performance metrics
• Identify risks associated within the selected supplier base
• Drive continuous supplier process and performance improvement related to procurement, inventory control (e.g., JIT, Kanban, Supplier Managed Inventory) capacity planning and manufacturing strategies
• Develops, implements, and maintains policies, procedures, and material control systems to reduce costs, streamline procedures, and implement solutions.
• Document and share best known methods
• Assess available and needed capacity
• Assures that suppliers have the capacity to meet our current and future needs as well as ongoing upside capacity to satisfy unplanned demands.
• Plans and implements activities related to the timely, cost-effective procurement, inventory control, planning and quality control of production materials
• Manage allocations/priorities
• Works on escalations and delivery improvements
• Drive lead-time reduction efforts
• Support cost reduction efforts

Further Job Responsibilities

• Create presentation, white papers, process flow charts to support continuous process improvement programs
• Represent Supply Chain Operations across the global organization
• Ensure internal/external customer needs are met
• Encourage supplier involvement in highly technical / contractually complex new product part designs using the suppliers’ expertise to optimize quality and manufacturability
• Work with engineering and the supplier to resolve complex problems to ensure on time delivery of critical material

Who We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related fields. Alternatively at least 5 years of experience in a similar role in the semiconductor industry
• Deep product knowledge on the Clean Product Business including knowledge of specific product parts
• Knowledge of supply chain management, procurement, materials management, manufacturing processes, business fundamentals/finance
• Project/program management skills and abilities
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Ability to learn new technologies and manufacturing processes 
• Ability to build and lead cross-functional teams
• Strong matrix management and relationship building abilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including presentation skills
• Strong negotiation skills

Compensation

This position is subject to the Austrian Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for Employees in the Metal Technology Industry in occupation group G. A higher payment is negotiable depending on expertise and skills. Please follow the link below in the Employment in Austria section for further information.

Our Commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.