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.
