Vice President, Global Procurement at Sandisk in Milpitas, CA

Job description

The mission of the Vice President of Global Procurement is to create enterprise-wide value by driving procurement excellence, achieving best cost, enabling business continuity, providing market intelligence, and acting as a trusted advisor to secure long-term growth. This role will elevate procurement maturity, embed advanced technologies including AI into solutioning and position Sandisk as an industry leader in strategic sourcing and supplier partnerships.  With direct responsibility for Sandisk's global direct material procurement organization, this executive will strengthen capabilities to become an indispensable business partner—not only on cost initiatives but also on innovation, risk mitigation, and strategic growth. The VP will develop long-term sourcing strategies, ensure resilience in the supply chain, and deliver actionable insights that support Sandisk's competitive advantage worldwide.  Leadership Scope  Leads a global, multi-layered procurement and supply chain organization of 40+ professionals, including Senior Directors and functional leaders, with responsibility for talent strategy, organizational effectiveness, succession planning, and leadership development across the function.  Acts as a key member of the extended executive leadership team, shaping enterprise strategy through partnership with senior leaders on growth initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, capital investments, operational transformation, risk management, and long-term business planning.  Key Responsibilities  Lead all direct material categories globally for Sandisk.  Oversee material planning and purchasing execution, coordinating closely with Sales, Planning organizations, Factories/CMs, and Supply Chain teams.  Ensure continuous delivery of annual productivity through aggressive cost innovation  Drive spend leverage for select direct material to significantly higher savings  Responsible for global talent management  Build and develop a leadership team, including coaching and developing Senior Directors and other senior leaders.  Provide thought leadership and vision to support the organizational objectives  Seen as a key strategic partner across all functions within the business  Drive procurement maturity by implementing advanced processes, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions.  Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on supply market trends, risk management, and growth strategies.  Champion business continuity planning and supplier risk mitigation.  Build and prepare executive-level presentations, business cases, and strategic recommendations for senior leadership.  Skilled at building supplier relationships and creating “customer of choice” positioning — able to influence suppliers and drive value even when not the supplier's largest customer.  Purchasing Organization  Act as the senior executive supplier contact point  Responsible for the E2E Purchasing processes (systems, policies and processes, P2P)  Responsible for cross business commodity coordination as required  Align Business Groups around the supplier strategy and supply base consolidation  Purchasing Performance Optimization  Ensure the optimum Purchasing performance to achieve quality, cost, timing, environmental, safety, sustainability and technology requirements in line with business objectives  Deliver committed Key Performance Indicators  Roll out global materials forecasts and drive material lead-time reduction programs  Rationalize the supply base  Implement stringent procedures on supplier quality assurance and track progress  Develop Purchasing Organization  Drive a transition to a new organizational model  Drive the implementation of Purchasing Contract Management, aligning processes, master data management and negotiation time schedules  Improve knowledge management and contract templates  Cont