Business Partnerships Manager

GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. INC.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

GlobalFoundries seeks a Business Partnerships Manager to lead cross-functional negotiations for a concentrated portfolio of strategic deals. You will assemble the right internal experts, align resources, and ensure a coordinated, value-maximizing approach across Sales, Product Lines, Legal, Finance, and Manufacturing.

You will define objectives, trade-offs, and sequencing, while upholding governance and long-term relationship value. Strong English fluency is required.

Qualifications

• Excellence in collaborative negotiation and value-creating outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of negotiation theory and practical application.
• Track record in high-stakes, enterprise deals and relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end negotiations for strategic deals with coherence and alignment.
• Transform GF's negotiation process into a collaborative, value-focused model.
• Define objectives, walk-aways, and sequencing with stakeholders.
• Ensure deals are reviewed by Manufacturing, Finance, Legal, and executives.
• Translate proposals into risk-adjusted value and plan contingencies.
• Coordinate cross-functional inputs to set_GF_s external negotiating position.
• Develop playbooks and training to scale negotiation intelligence.

Skills

Negotiation excellence

Negotiation theory

Value creation

B2B experience

Quantitative skills

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance/Engineering/Law

Post-graduate qualification in Negotiation/Conflict Resolution

Job description

About GlobalFoundries: GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world's most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Summary of Role

The Business Partnerships Manager (BPM) is an elite commercial negotiator at the center of GlobalFoundries' most consequential business opportunities. Reporting to the Head of Business Partnerships, the BPM leads GF's most strategic negotiations end-to-end and transforms GF's negotiation process into a robust, collaborative model that maximizes long-term commercial value. The BPM is the architect of GF's negotiation process - assembling the right internal expertise around each deal, aligning resources and decisions, and ensuring the organization enters every strategic negotiation as a coordinated team with a single, aligned strategy. Working in partnership with Sales, Product Lines, Legal, Finance, and Manufacturing, the BPM translates cross-functional complexity into disciplined, value-maximizing commercial outcomes. This is not a support function: BPMs own the negotiation process end-to-end and are accountable for results.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead GF negotiations end-to-end for a concentrated portfolio of strategic deals - across live meetings and document-exchange formats, from preparation and strategy through execution and close, ensuring all responses are coherent, coordinated, and strategically aligned.
• Drive the transformation of GF's negotiation process into a robust collaborative model, including mechanisms to manage long-term power fluctuations between GF and its counterparties.
• Define objectives, walk-aways, trade-off logic, and sequencing in alignment with the Head of Business Partnerships and relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure all deals are reviewed through the lens of the full organization - Manufacturing, Finance, Legal, and long-term relationship value; apply and uphold the Delegation of Authority.
• Strengthen the economic quality of strategic negotiations by translating commercial proposals into risk-adjusted value; model trade-offs, concessions, contingencies, probability-weighted outcomes, implementation risks, and long-term enforceability before major commitments are made.
• Challenge weak assumptions and premature concessions respectfully, and evaluate whether proposed deals are robust across future power fluctuations, market cycles, capacity changes, and likely renegotiation scenarios.
• Gather commercial interests, constraints, and red lines from Sales, Product Lines, Legal, Finance, and Manufacturing, and facilitate the internal alignment that determines GF's external negotiating position.
• Surface competing priorities early, frame trade-offs clearly, and ensure internal disagreements are not exported to the customer-facing table or exploited by counterparties.
• Own a focused portfolio of counterparty relationships, building genuine trust and positioning GF's approach as collaborative and value-creating for both sides; manage and repair relationships under pressure.
• Design and scale negotiation playbooks, preparation frameworks, and debrief protocols; champion negotiation intelligence tools, including AI-assisted preparation, and share learnings to upskill the broader Commercial organization.
• Ensure deal terms translate cleanly into execution, maintaining tight integration across the quote-to-cash process, and elevate unresolved internal impasses with a clear framing of trade-offs and a recommended path forward.

Other Responsibilities

Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs. Other duties as assigned by manager.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated excellence in collaborative negotiation, with the proven ability to move counterparties toward value-creating frameworks even under pressure and in adversarial conditions.
• Deep command of negotiation theory, including interest-based approaches and strategies for managing power dynamics, coupled with the practical ability to apply and adapt these frameworks in real, high-stakes commercial settings.
• A track record of outcomes that reflect both value maximization and relationship preservation.
• 5+ years of experience in B2B commercial roles, with meaningful exposure to high-complexity negotiations, enterprise deal structuring, or strategic account management.
• Strong quantitative reasoning: ability to model deal economics, evaluate trade-offs, and stress-test structures across multiple dimensions.
• Superior stakeholder management across technical, legal, finance, and executive functions in a matrixed organization, including the ability to synthesize competing interests into a coherent commercial position and defend it.
• A bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Law, or a related field; a post-graduate qualification in Business, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, or a related discipline is preferred.
• Fluency in English (written and verbal); additional languages a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, or a related discipline.
• Experience in semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, or high-technology industries, with an understanding of foundry economics, capacity dynamics, and product line interdependencies.
• Deep knowledge of GF's internal processes, stakeholder landscape, and negotiation history with key accounts, or equivalent depth in a comparable enterprise.
• Familiarity with Deal Desk processes, order-to-cash flows, and enterprise contract structures in a B2B technology environment.
• Exposure to value-based pricing, risk-sharing contract models, or strategic agreements.

Expected Salary Range

Expected Salary Range $118,000.00 - $239,000.00 The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.

Accommodations

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Equal Opportunity and Diversity

An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations.

GlobalFoundries is fully committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and believes that cultural diversity within the company enhances its business potential.

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