Job DescriptionServe as the central owner within the procurement and logistics organization for pipeline program management, spend and savings alignment, and reporting integrity. Drive cross-functional accountability, strengthen data accuracy and trust, and proactively identify risks, leakage, and process gaps while establishing scalable, sustainable processes.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Finance Partnership & Reporting Integrity
- Act as the primary procurement contact for finance
- Reconcile system-generated reports with finance reporting and procurement expectations
- Serve as go-to resource for procurement spend and savings reporting
- Identify and resolve data discrepancies and reporting gaps
- Monitor and minimize price leakage
Pipeline Program Management
- Own savings pipeline as a cross-functional program
- Drive timely updates across procurement, finance, and engineering
- Enforce deadlines and ensure stakeholder accountability
- Ensure sufficient project-level detail to support auditability, accuracy, and transparency
- Reduce manual burden on Commodity Managers through additional automation
Governance & Leadership Visibility
- Lead regular pipeline and savings review cadences
- Provide clear visibility into performance, risks, and gaps
- Bridge current vs prior forecasts to explain key variances
- Consolidate and communicate risks and opportunities to leadership
- Support leadership inquiries with clear, data-backed insights
Issue Identification & Risk Mitigation
- Proactively identify data inconsistencies, process gaps, and reporting risks
- Troubleshoot cross-functional issues across procurement and finance
- Address root causes impacting accuracy, timing, and alignment
- Strengthen leadership confidence in savings and spend reporting
Process Improvement & Automation
- Reduce reliance on manual reporting, drive adoptions of automated solutions
- Improve pipeline detail and structure to support audit readiness
- Redesign workflows to improve scalability, consistency, and efficiency
Key Business Challenges Addressed
- Manual, time-intensive reporting processes
- Insufficient pipeline detail for validation and audit
- Misalignment between procurement and finance
- Limited leadership confidence in reported savings
QualificationsFinance & Business Partnership- Proven experience partnering with Finance on spend, savings, and forecasting alignment
- Strong financial acumen with ability to reconcile and validate complex datasets
- Demonstrated ownership of reporting integrity and audit-ready processes
Program & Pipeline Management- Experience managing cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders (procurement, finance, engineering)
- Strong track record driving accountability, enforcing timelines, and ensuring high-quality deliverables
- Ability to structure and manage savings pipelines with sufficient detail for validation and transparency
Data & Analytics Expertise- Advanced proficiency in data analysis, reporting tools, and financial systems (e.g., Excel, Power BI, ERP systems)
- Ability to identify discrepancies, data gaps, and reporting inconsistencies
- Experience building trusted, standardized reporting frameworks
Procurement & Savings Knowledge- Solid understanding of procurement processes, cost drivers, and savings methodologies
- Experience tracking, validating, and reporting procurement savings and spend performance
- Familiarity with price leakage concepts and cost control mechanisms
Leadership & Communication- Strong executive communication skills with ability to translate data into clear insights for leadership
- Experience leading review cadences (MBRs/QBRs) and presenting risks, gaps, and performance
- Ability to influence without authority across cross-functional teams
Problem Solving & Risk Management- Proven ability to proactively identify risks, process gaps, and root cause issues
- Experience resolving complex cross-functional challenges impacting reporting accuracy and timing
- Strong critical thinking and structured problem-solving capabilities
Process Improvement & Automation- Experience redesigning workflows to improve scalability, efficiency, and consistency
- Track record driving automation to reduce manual reporting and improve data reliability
- Familiarity with digital tools and data infrastructure to enable reporting transformation
Compensation & Benefits Details- An employee's pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
- The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
- You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
- Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.
