Principal Sourcer, Supply Chain Sourcing Strategy and Analytics

NVIDIA NVIDIA · Semiconductors · Santa Clara, CA

This role is for a Principal Sourcer in Supply Chain, focusing on sourcing strategy and analytics for critical technologies like Memory and Storage. The responsibilities include building market intelligence capabilities, developing cost breakdowns, monitoring market signals, building spend analytics, and collaborating on multi-year sourcing strategies. The role requires extensive experience in procurement strategy and business analytics within the technology sector or consulting, with a strong ability to communicate with executives and drive transformation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and sustain a robust market intelligence capability across assigned Memory and Storage, including capacity trends, technology roadmaps, cost drivers, lead times, supplier financial health, competitive dynamics, and geopolitical risk.
  2. Develop and maintain detailed cost driver breakdowns to support negotiations and capital and sourcing decisions.
  3. Monitor relevant indices and market signals, where applicable, and translate insights into pricing strategies and contract structures.
  4. Build and operationalize a robust spend analytics capability.
  5. Partner with Finance and Operations to build forecast-to-commit analytics and drive tighter linkages between sourcing strategy and capacity plans.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in related field, or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years of procurement strategy and business analytics development and execution experience in technology sector or in management consulting firms
  • Experience developing and using key performance indicators to drive operational behavior and executive decision-making
  • Ability to be hands-on and communicate concisely and expertly with executives

Nice to have

  • Experienced driving business transformation, data and analytics and technology sourcing a plus
  • Reporting Tool experience like Tableau, Power BI, etc.
  • A proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment where strong organizational skills are essential.
  • Ability to provide inspirational leadership and drive organizational growth and change
  • Self-starter with a passion for learning
  • Proven experience influencing business practices

What the JD emphasized

  • 12+ years of procurement strategy and business analytics development and execution experience in technology sector or in management consulting firms.
  • Ability to be hands-on and communicate concisely and expertly with executives