General InformationReq # WD00104341
Career area: Supply Chain
Country/Region: United States of America
State: North Carolina
City: Morrisville
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026
Working time: Full-time
Additional Locations:
* United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville
Description and RequirementsThe Global Supply Management role is to ensure end-to-end supply continuity, supplier performance, and inventory optimization across global operations. This role partners closely with GCM, OE/CF, Sales, Operations, Planning, Engineering, Manufacturing, and key suppliers to develop and execute supply strategies that support business growth, customer commitments, and operational excellence.
1. Global Supply & Demand Management - Own global supply management for assigned RAID, NIC, GPU and related commodities.
- Translate global demand, backlog, forecasts, and business priorities into actionable supplier supply plans.
- Identify supply constraints, shortages, and potential disruptions early and drive mitigation actions.
- Develop allocation and prioritization strategies during constrained supply situations.
- Ensure supply plans support customer requirements, revenue commitments, manufacturing schedules, and business priorities.
2. Supplier Management - Manage supplier operational performance including supply commits, delivery performance, lead time, flexibility, responsiveness, and recovery execution.
- Conduct regular supply reviews with strategic suppliers and drive closure of supply gaps.
- Establish effective supplier escalation mechanisms for critical shortages or business-impacting issues.
- Work with suppliers to improve capacity visibility, commit accuracy, and supply flexibility.
3. Inventory Optimization - Balance supply assurance and inventory efficiency, ensuring adequate supply protection while avoiding unnecessary inventory exposure.
- Manage inventory within established KPI targets and drive actions to mitigate excess and obsolete inventory risks.
- Monitor demand changes, lead-time changes, purchase commitments, and supply upside/downside exposure.
- Partner with Planning, Procurement and Finance teams to optimize global inventory positioning.
4. Shortage & Risk Management - Proactively identify supply risks related to capacity, semiconductor availability, product transitions, supplier dependencies, geopolitical events, and logistics disruptions.
- Lead cross-functional shortage management and recovery plans.
- Develop contingency strategies including alternative supply, upside capacity, allocation optimization, and qualification of alternate solutions where appropriate.
- Provide clear management-level visibility of critical supply risks, business impact, recovery timing, and required decisions.
5. Cross-functional & Global Collaboration - Partner closely with GCM, Engineering, Planning, Sales, Operations, Manufacturing, Finance/OE-CF, quality teams, regional procurement organizations, and suppliers.
- Coordinate supply execution across global manufacturing locations and regions including China, Mexico, Brazil, India, Europe and other operational sites.
- Support new product introductions, product transitions, end-of-life planning, and supplier/component changes from a supply-management perspective.
- Drive alignment between commercial strategy, technical roadmap, demand outlook, supplier capacity, and operational execution.
Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
- 8+ years in supply chain, supply management, procurement, commodity management, planning, or supplier management.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes including demand planning, supply planning, supplier commits, PO execution, inventory management, and shortage management.
- Experience managing complex global supply situations and working with multiple manufacturing sites and regional teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex supply-demand data into actionable decisions.
- Strong supplier negotiation, escalation, and relationship-management capabilities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills in a global, cross-functional environment.
- Ability to operate effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities in a fast-changing supply environment.
- Strong Excel/data-analysis capability and experience using enterprise supply-planning/ERP tools.
Preferred Qualification - Candidates from competitors with similar previous roles
- Master of AI tools.
Additional Locations:
* United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville
