Vice President of Direct Materials Procurement

The mission of the Vice President of Direct Materials 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.

Key Responsibilities

· Lead all direct material categories globally for Sandisk.

· 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

· 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.

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

· Continue enhancing the skill sets of the Purchasing organization

· Coach and develop key individuals

· Lead the cross sector Purchasing talent process