Location: Ames, IA | Hybrid
Job Description
You’ll make an impact by
- You define and drive the implementation and continuous evolution of the global Integrated Circuit commodity strategy ensuring a high-quality, competitive and future-ready portfolio. You identify emerging technologies, industry trends, and supplier capabilities, and translate them into a technology roadmap that supports current and future business requirements.
- You collaborate closely with R&D, Procurement, Engineering and Supply Chain to ensure that technical requirements, product expectations, and customer needs are effectively translated into supplier specifications and qualification criteria.
- You lead and coordinate the global Commodity Engineering network for ICs and ensure effective collaboration across locations. You foster knowledge sharing, drive alignment on technical standards and engineering approaches, and act as the key technical authority for IC-related topics.
- You Drive standardization, risk mitigation, second-source strategies and cost optimization.
- You coordinate supplier qualification and material approval activities ensuring that suppliers meet all technical, quality, and regulatory requirements. You define qualification standards, assess manufacturing capabilities, and drive risk mitigation measures throughout the supply chain.
- You monitor supplier performance through defined KPIs and establish improvement plans where necessary. You lead supplier development activities, coordinate corrective and preventive actions, and support root-cause analysis for supplier-related quality issues.
- Monitor market developments, technology trends, obsolescence risks and supplier roadmaps.
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