Strategic Materials & Sourcing Lead

Applied Materials South East Asia; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Materials in Singapore is seeking a Buyer to purchase materials, supplies, machinery, and services for state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. You will collaborate across teams, monitor inventory, manage delivery scheduling, negotiate with suppliers, and procure items essential to product development and delivery for customers and internal teams.

The role emphasizes coordinating demand via MRP, driving cost objectives, and ensuring supplier performance while working with engineering

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree required.
• Years of experience: 5+ years in procurement or supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Forecasts and communicates engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers. Provides input to outsourcing decisions by performing make versus buy analysis. Coordinates demand signals through MRP to minimize inventory exposure.
• Forms Materials Core Team and coordinates product development process deliverables through matrix management of buyers, planners, and production control. Collaborates with engineering team to interpret engineering requirements.
• Under some supervision, creates, releases and updates new project materials strategy. Understand the logic of material driving mode like PACE, DASH, consign item mode, etc.
• Sourcing: Assists in supplier price and delivery negotiations; under direct supervision may negotiate contracts as necessary. Utilizes the preferred supplier selection and assessment process when selecting suppliers. Completes supplier risk assessment on critical and unique parts. Monitors supplier performance (delivery, quality, cost).
• Materials: Coordinates activities around source selection, specification creation and price negotiation with appropriate team members.
• Executes commercialization (transition) materials plan).
• Manages materials change control process. Meets cost objectives and resolves quality issues. Generates and publishes Key Process Indicators . Tracks total landed costs targets.
• Works with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long‑lead parts and inspection requirements. Assists in developing supplier and commodity road maps to engineering. Utilizes value analysis on build‑to‑print components in support of Should Cost analysis.
• Actively mediates and partners with quality and engineering teams to resolve supplier quality issues for assigned product groups. Escalate issues to Commodity Business Managers when necessary.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Applied Materials in Singapore is seeking a Buyer to purchase materials, supplies, machinery, and services for state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. You will collaborate across teams, monitor inventory, manage delivery scheduling, negotiate with suppliers, and procure items essential to product development and delivery for customers and internal teams.

The role emphasizes coordinating demand via MRP, driving cost objectives, and ensuring supplier performance while working with engineering