Senior Manager, FE Materials Global Industrial Gas Category

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Global Procurement – Front End & Back End Materials

As the Senior Manager, Global Industrial Gas Category, you will develop and implement Micron's worldwide industrial gas strategy! It supports Front End and Back End manufacturing networks.

You will spearhead and establish long-term category roadmaps and secure resilient supply chains and build strategic supplier partnerships. This person will lead all aspects and drive commercial excellence while ensuring supplier capabilities match Micron's production and technology requirements. This role is also responsible for the global sourcing strategy, supplier management, and commercial leadership for Industrial Gases, with a focus on leveraging AI.

This role combines category strategy leadership, executive supplier management, risk mitigation, commercial negotiations, manufacturing support, sustainability leadership, and talent development!

You will partner closely with Manufacturing, Facilities, Technology Development, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Legal, and Executive Leadership teams to enable Micron's growth objectives while delivering world-class cost, supply, quality, and sustainability outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Category Strategy & Leadership: Develop and implement a comprehensive global Industrial Gas category strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with Micron's business, technology, manufacturing, sustainability, and growth objectives; balance cost, supply assurance, technology enablement, sustainability, supplier innovation, and risk mitigation within category plans; drive one-category, one-company sourcing strategies across all regions and sites; and lead strategic sourcing initiatives, supplier segmentation, category optimization, and supplier capability development.
• Strategic Supplier Management: Establish executive-level relationships and serve as executive sponsor for strategic suppliers; lead supplier business reviews and executive governance forums; develop long-term supplier partnership strategies that influence supplier investments and capacity plans; and align supplier technology roadmaps and category strategies with Micron's manufacturing, expansion, and technology strategies.
• Commercial & Negotiation Leadership: Lead global negotiations involving long-term Supply Agreements (LTA), Capacity Reservation Agreements, infrastructure investments, pricing mechanisms, sustainability agreements, and joint development initiatives; drive cost reductions, cost avoidance, total cost of ownership improvements, working capital optimization, and business value creation; and apply market intelligence, benchmarking, should-cost modeling, supplier economics analysis, and industry trend analysis to support strategic decision-making.
• Supply Assurance & Risk Management: Develop comprehensive supply continuity, dual-source qualification, supplier risk management, and contingency planning strategies addressing geopolitical, operational, capacity, raw material, and transportation risks; partner with manufacturing teams during crisis management situations; and ensure uninterrupted supply support for global operations.
• Sustainability & Innovation: Lead initiatives supporting decarbonization, gas recycling, resource efficiency, environmental compliance, and circular economy solutions, and develop strategic partnerships to enable sustainable manufacturing growth; drive supplier innovation programs focused on improving cost, supply resilience, environmental performance, and operational effectiveness.
• Leadership & Talent Development: Build, coach, and develop a high-performing global category organization, including Category Supplier Managers and Global Supplier Managers; drive succession planning, capability development, accountability, collaboration, innovation, customer care, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Operations Management, Chemistry, Materials Science, or related field.
• Significant experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain, engineering, manufacturing, or operations leadership.
• Experience leading global sourcing strategies and supplier negotiations.
• Proven success leading strategic supplier relationships and complex business negotiations. with strong analytical, financial, and commercial savvy.
• Experience influencing and collaborating across global organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Semiconductor experience
• Experience leading geographically dispersed teams.
• Industrial gas, specialty gas, chemical, materials, facilities, utilities, or capital equipment sourcing experience.
• Experience supporting global manufacturing expansions and technology transitions, and experience supporting Front End and/or Back End manufacturing operations.
• MBA or advanced technical degree preferred.

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

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