Technical Commodity Manager

Sandisk

$108K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Science, or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 4 years' professional experience with electronic components, IC, and project management
  • Experience in technical commodity management, product development, quality management, or field application engineering
  • Hardware design experience is a plus
  • Strong communication skills in English, both verbal and written

Responsibilities

  • Liaise with various stakeholders to drive sourcing strategy for Sandisk flash products
  • Provide technology expertise to develop supply base strategy
  • Drive supply base strategy by proposing alternatives and leading technical qualifications
  • Support supplier and technology selection with expert technical guidance
  • Ensure qualified suppliers meet Sandisk's technical and quality requirements
  • Review suppliers' technology roadmaps for compliance with Sandisk standards

Benefits

  • Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan based on individual and company performance
  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid vacation, sick leave, and medical/dental/vision insurance
  • Life, accident, and disability insurance included
  • Tuition reimbursement and transit benefits available
  • Employee stock purchase plan and participation in Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan
  • Additional voluntary benefit programs including legal and pet insurance
Full Job Description
Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Liaise with NPI Procurement, Design Engineers, Commodity Managers and other relevant stakeholders to ensure and drive a robust sourcing strategy at NPI phase for all Sandisk flash products, while ensuring continuity of supply and best in class components in BOMs.
  • Provide technology expertise to commodity manager to develop supply base strategy.
  • Drives supply base strategy by BOM screen at product design stage, propose 2nd sources or replacements, drive the technical qualification process.
  • Provide expert technical support to the supplier/technology selection process.
  • Make sure qualified suppliers or components are meeting Sandisk technical requirements, quality requirements, green policy requirements.
  • Review suppliers' technology roadmaps, ensure suppliers are meeting Sandisk technical requirements.


Qualifications

REQUIRED:
  • Bachelor degree or above in Engineering or Science with equivalent experience
  • Min 4 years of professional experience, expert on electronic components, IC and project management.
  • Relative experience as technical commodity management, product development, quality management or field application engineering is a must, hardware design experience is a plus.

SKILLS:
  • Ability to influence and convince
  • Self-Motivator
  • Communicate well in English both in verbal and written form
  • Strong project management, organizational, and analytical skills required
  • Excellent team facilitation and presentation skills required
  • Ability to present to all level of management / stakeholders and articulate strategies and performance metrics


Additional Information

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 11/10/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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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.

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