Supply Chain Business Mgr 4

Overview

Own the operational business relationship and performance of assigned suppliers supporting Lam's global manufacturing network, ensuring material availability, improving supplier performance, and mitigating supply risks.

What you'll do

• Own supplier operational performance across delivery, capacity, quality, responsiveness and other established performance metrics; identify performance gaps, establish improvement plans and drive suppliers toward sustainable results.
• Translate demand and business requirements into supplier execution plans, aligning material availability, capacity and delivery commitments with Lam's manufacturing requirements.
• Manage changing and competing priorities, continually assessing business impact, supply risk and customer requirements to reprioritize work and maintain execution in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Lead supplier escalations from identification through closure, assessing business impact, establishing containment and recovery actions, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, driving supplier accountability, and escalating when broader leadership intervention is required.
• Identify supply risks proactively by analyzing supplier capability, capacity, lead times, inventory, demand signals and other operational indicators; develop mitigation plans before constraints impact manufacturing or customers.
• Apply independent judgment to complex supply-chain problems, evaluating multiple variables and incomplete information to determine practical solutions and drive timely decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally with Strategic Commodity Management, Purchasing, Planning, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supplier Engineering and other stakeholders to resolve supply challenges and achieve commodity and business objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement in supplier processes and supply-chain practices, including inventory strategies such as JIT, Kanban, min/max and consignment, lead-time reduction, capacity planning and operational efficiency.
• Use data to drive decisions, developing and monitoring supplier performance metrics, identifying trends and root causes, and translating analysis into actionable recommendations.
• Influence suppliers without direct authority, establishing clear expectations, challenging gaps constructively and holding partners accountable for commitments.
• Support business continuity and supplier-risk mitigation, developing recovery and contingency plans and coordinating execution when supply conditions change.
• Communicate complex supply-chain issues clearly and concisely, including business impact, root cause, recovery plans, risks and recommendations to cross-functional stakeholders and leadership.
• Maintain awareness of relevant supply-chain, semiconductor and supplier-market trends and incorporate appropriate insights into supplier-management decisions.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Operations or a related discipline with 8+ years of related experience; or 6+ years with a Master's degree; or a Ph.D. with 3+ years; or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing supplier performance, material availability, capacity, supply risk or complex operational execution in a global supply-chain environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability with experience converting complex data and business conditions into actionable decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently, exercise sound judgment and deliver results amid ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Experience leading complex supplier or supply-chain escalations and coordinating recovery across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively across functions and organizational levels.
• Ability to build effective supplier and internal relationships while maintaining accountability for commitments and results.
• Working knowledge of ERP and supply-chain systems.
• Proficiency with analytical and productivity tools such as Excel and related data-visualization/reporting tools.

Nice to have

• Semiconductor equipment, semiconductor, high-technology manufacturing or similarly complex global supply-chain experience.
• Experience working with global suppliers and geographically distributed cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of inventory-management strategies, capacity management, business-continuity planning and supplier-performance management.
• Experience presenting supplier risks, recovery strategies and recommendations to senior leadership.
• SAP experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work mode: hybrid, either On-site Flex (3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location) or Virtual Flex (1-2 days per week on-site, remote the rest of the time).