Senior Regional Commodity Manager

About GlobalFoundries

GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, enabling AI at scale from the cloud to the physical world. Through deep partnerships with customers, GF delivers differentiated, power efficient and high performance solutions for high growth markets. With global manufacturing operations across the U.S., Europe and Asia, GF is a trusted and holistic technology partner for customers around the world. GF’s talented, global team remains focused every day on security, longevity and sustainability. For more information, visit www.gf.com.

Summary of Role:

Based in Singapore, the Regional Commodity Manager develops and executes regional sourcing strategies for Equipment and Maintenance categories in support of GlobalFoundries’ manufacturing, technology, capital investment, and growth objectives.

The role collaborates with regional stakeholders and Global Commodity teams to align with overall global strategies while adapting execution to regional business needs, supplier-market conditions, and operational priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute regional sourcing and supplier strategies for assigned Equipment and Maintenance categories, aligned with Global Commodity direction and regional business priorities.

• Partner with Global Commodity teams to shape, localize, and implement sourcing approaches that balance enterprise leverage with regional requirements.

• Lead supplier selection, RFx activities, commercial negotiations, contracting, and long-term supplier engagement to improve competitiveness, supply resilience, service, and total value.

• Provide market intelligence, commercial insight, and fact-based recommendations to support capital investment, capacity expansion, technology, and operating decisions.

• Build productive relationships with key suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Anticipate supply, commercial, and execution risks; develop mitigation strategies; and drive closure of complex sourcing issues and supplier escalations.

• Drive supplier performance, continuous improvement, standardization, and appropriate adoption of data, digital tools, and sourcing best practices.
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Operations Management, Finance, or a related discipline.

• Substantial relevant experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain, semiconductor manufacturing, engineering, or a related business function.

• Experience in semiconductor manufacturing is required.

• Proven experience developing sourcing strategies, leading complex commercial negotiations, and managing strategic supplier relationships.

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and effectively across regional and global teams in a matrixed organization and to influence outcomes without direct authority.

• Strong commercial and business acumen, including the ability to balance cost, quality, delivery, service, risk, cash flow, and supply continuity considerations.

• Proven ability to define problems, work through ambiguity, anticipate risks, and drive practical solutions to complex cross-functional issues.

• Excellent stakeholder-management, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage confidently at multiple organizational levels.

• Strong analytical capability and sound judgment, with a track record of using data and market insights to support decisions
  

Core Skills:

• Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline.

• Proactive ownership and solution-oriented problem solving.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.

• Influence, collaboration, and relationship building across regional and global stakeholders.

• Composure and decisiveness in managing critical issues and escalations.