Job Description

The Role and Impact:
This is an exciting opportunity to join Intel as a Strategic Sourcing Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Intel's global supply chain. This position is critical to driving value through strategic sourcing decisions, managing key supplier relationships, and enabling long-term business growth. As a leader within Intel's supply chain organization, you will directly impact Intel's ability to deliver cutting-edge technologies while ensuring sustainability, affordability, and resilience. Collaborating across diverse functions and geographies, you will influence high-level strategies and help build a best-in-class procurement ecosystem that supports Intel's innovation and leadership in the semiconductor industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage strategic supplier relationships, collaborating with senior leaders to align priorities and drive shared business goals focusing on S and OE. Manage production schedules, urgent material procurement, logistical bottlenecks, and immediate inventory adjustments to ensure high customer service levels and rapid responsiveness.
• Develop, implement, and execute commodity strategies to support long-term growth and supply chain resilience. Oversee material procurement timing and distribution to meet immediate demand while maintaining line of sight on upcoming demand requirements.
• Identify disruptions in supply and drive action items to maintain, recover, and ensure upcoming supply health. Create robust negotiation strategies, leveraging industry benchmarking and market dynamics to achieve affordability and innovation targets.
• Influence supplier evaluation and selection, ensuring alignment with Intel's strategic needs across technology, cost, capacity, and sustainability goals.
• Anticipate business risks and lead mitigation strategies, ensuring accuracy, quality, and timeliness in delivery.
• Educate internal stakeholders and suppliers on compliance policies while identifying opportunities to adapt policies to better support business objectives.
• Inspire and lead teams, facilitating work through clear goal setting, accountability, and differentiated performance management.
• Represent sourcing strategies and deliverables to executive forums, preparing presentations digestible across all organizational levels.
• Engage with customers and cross-functional Intel teams, prioritizing supplier allocations and establishing capacity corridors to ensure product readiness.

Required Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated expertise in supply line and capacity management.
• Proven experience leading strategic supplier relationships in a fabless manufacturing or external sourcing environment.
• Proficiency in data analysis and sourcing methodologies, with a strong focus on cost, quality, and delivery metrics.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience with contracting, collaboration/investments, intellectual property, and acquisitions.
• Familiarity with substrates supply chains or similar industries is a strong plus.
• Strong communication skills, executive presence, and ability to influence across organizational levels.
• Proven leadership capabilities, including developing teams, managing performance, and fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field with 12+ years of experience; or Master's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field with 8+ years of experience; or Ph.D. in Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field with 6+ years of experience. MBA degree or engineering background preferred

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:

US, Arizona, Phoenix

Additional Locations:

US, California, Santa Clara, US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Business group:

Intel Foundry strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art while delighting our customers -- from delivering cutting-edge silicon process and packaging technology leadership for the AI era, enabling our customers to design leadership products, global manufacturing scale and supply chain, through the continuous yield improvements to advanced packaging all the way to final test and assembly. We ensure our foundry customers' products receive our utmost focus in terms of service, technology enablement and capacity commitments. Employees in the Foundry Technology Manufacturing are part of a worldwide factory network that designs, develops, manufactures, and assembly/test packages the compute devices to improve the lives of every person on Earth.

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

This role is a Position of Trust. Should you accept this position, you must consent to and pass an extended Background Investigation, which includes (subject to country law), extended education, SEC sanctions, and additional criminal and civil checks. For internals, this investigation may or may not be completed prior to starting the position. For additional questions, please contact your Recruiter.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $180,140.00-254,320.00 USDThe range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

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