New College Grad - Category Supplier Manager

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Micron Technology is a world leader in innovating memory and storage solutions that accelerate the transformation of information into intelligence, inspiring the world to learn, communicate and advance faster than ever.

The Procurement team at Micron plays a vital role in driving growth, delivering outstanding total cost and supply chain resilience with modern predictive capabilities, risk analysis, and a commitment to sustainability and diversity. Our business objectives are aligned with the value we place on our team members – our greatest strength. We invest in our people through a skills-based learning and development model to build clear career pathways for progress and personal growth. We also aim to foster an engaging and inclusive culture by cultivating camaraderie and honoring the diverse perspectives of all our distributed team members. Join us and learn why Micron’s Procurement team is the ideal place to unleash your talents!

As a Category Supplier Manager, you will develop a category strategy for managed categories. You will confirm these strategies with Global and Regional Category Managers and relevant internal collaborators. You will lead strategic sourcing initiatives, plan and carry out negotiations using supplier and industry analysis, benchmarking, and cost management. By managing the category strategy, you will build positive relationships with internal collaborators and deliver outstanding cost, supply, and resilience results.

Key Responsibilities

• Category Management & Strategic Sourcing: Develop category strategies for managed categories and confirm strategies with Global and Regional Category Managers and internal partners. Implement processes to monitor collaborator happiness with key suppliers. Recommend targets to improve value such as high revenue, spend reduction, purchasing efficiency, customer service, and supplier management. Examine sourcing trends and provide suggestions for assigned categories. Participate in supplier segmentation and strategic goal-setting. Leverage AI-enabled tools and data analytics to improve sourcing decisions, identify market insights, automate routine activities, and improve efficiency.

• Cost Management & Analysis: Identify and evaluate category-specific savings/revenue levers. Drive category savings/revenue and scorecard metric targets. Provide market intelligence and category price trends to relevant internal collaborators. Apply should-cost models for assigned categories that are benchmarked and relevant to the global marketplace.

• Negotiation: Lead or participate in negotiations for contract extensions and renewals, renegotiation of prices, transfers, etc. Lead sourcing events/RFQ process into bundled negotiation. Incorporate savings targets and contract requirements into negotiations. Develop a contract strategy for suppliers in assigned categories and build, negotiate, monitor, and enforce contracted terms and conditions. Carry out strategic sourcing efforts, negotiations, and cost control through supplier and industry analysis.

• Business Partnering: Collaborate with Collaborators to Deliver Strategic Solutions. Develop and maintain expertise in the assigned spend categories through relationships with key collaborators. Drive a customer-centric approach to solving issues and representing Procurement. Develop and maintain collaborative partnerships to improve cost-effectiveness, supply chain efficiency, and resilience.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum 0 to 2 years of experience in Procurement / Supply Chain.
• A relevant Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Willingness to learn in category management and strategic sourcing.

Preferred Requirements:

• Good communication skills
• The ability to effectively manage relationships with various individuals will be an advantage.
• Proven experience working within a team

As a world leader in the semiconductor industry, Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future.  We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget.  Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave.  Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays.  For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.

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