Director, Cem Business and Cost Management

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

This role is focused on managing the business and cost aspects of the CEM (Contract Electronics Manufacturer) supply chain for NVIDIA's products. It involves negotiating investment frameworks, developing cost models, driving supplier performance, and coordinating cost competitiveness across various categories. The role requires extensive experience in supply chain operations, leadership, and negotiation, with a focus on ensuring reliable, agile, and scalable supply chains to support product cycles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Take charge of the worldwide cost management approach across CEM categories, covering product cost structure, CM pricing, transformation cost, NRE, and liability management.
  2. Lead major investment negotiations and funding models (e.g., factory expansions, line builds, automation, and remanufacturing infrastructure).
  3. Develop and institutionalize global end-to-end cost models, benchmarks, and analytics used across business units and Finance to guide long-term planning.
  4. Drive competitive cost structures by identifying strategic leverage, leading RFQ processes, and ensuring consistent cost governance across global CEM sites.
  5. Direct global supplier performance management, ensuring alignment to critical metrics for quality, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, and cost.

Skills

Required

  • Supply chain operations leadership
  • Global ODM, JDM, and CEM partner engagement
  • Negotiation skills
  • Executive supplier management
  • Communication and influencing skills
  • Cost management
  • Investment negotiation
  • Cost modeling
  • Supplier performance management
  • RFQ processes
  • Cost governance
  • Capacity assessment
  • Sourcing assessment

Nice to have

  • Masters degree

What the JD emphasized

  • 15+ overall years supply chain and high-tech industry experience or related field and 8+ years of leadership experience
  • Extensive Supply Chain Operations leadership experience building and engaging global ODM, JDM, and CEM partners
  • Outstanding negotiation skills and in executive supplier management
  • Great communication and influencing skills working with engineering, finance, business units, and other supply chain functions