Staff/Principal Capital Supplier Manager

About the role

Micron is hiring a global, senior individual-contributor role as a Principal Capital Supplier Manager. The person owns end-to-end commercial responsibility for one or more critical capital equipment categories and strategic suppliers, driving cost competitiveness, supply resilience, category strategy and executive-level supplier engagement for Micron's manufacturing network.

Key responsibilities

• Own and define global category strategies for capital equipment such as Etch, Wet Process, CMP, Deposition, Implant, Fab Support, Photo and Metrology.
• Lead market intelligence: supplier landscape and capability mapping, technology roadmaps and inflection points, pricing models and long-term cost curves.
• Shape dual-source and alternate-source strategies and supply base optimization to reduce concentration and continuity risks.
• Act as Micron's primary commercial lead for strategic suppliers, including executive reviews and escalation governance, and drive alignment on capacity commitments, technology enablement and long-term partnership frameworks.
• Lead high-stakes, multi-year global negotiations on tool pricing and framework agreements, volume leverage and node-based cost downs, service, spares and lifecycle costs, applying should-cost, TCO and global benchmarking models.
• Own strategy, governance and renegotiations as market or capacity conditions change.
• Deliver repeatable cost and productivity impact on capex, tool productivity and uptime, and drive multi-year savings roadmaps.
• Partner with TD, OCT, Fab Engineering and Operations, Planning and Finance, influence sourcing strategies and technology gate readiness, and serve as procurement subject matter expert.
• Operate as a principal individual contributor, mentor staff and senior CSMs on negotiation strategy, market intelligence and supplier engagement, and lead complex global initiatives without direct people management.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain or Business.
• 5+ years in capital procurement, engineering or category management (semiconductor preferred).
• Deep domain expertise in capital equipment economics and supplier behavior.
• Demonstrated success in global negotiations and category leadership.
• Strong executive presence, comfortable engaging SVP/CEO-level supplier leadership.
• Integrates AI-assisted tools into daily work to improve efficiency, quality or effectiveness, in line with organizational standards and legal requirements.