Global Supply Management

About the Position

We are seeking a Global Supply Management professional to join our team at Lenovo. This role is pivotal in ensuring end-to-end supply continuity, supplier performance, and inventory optimization across our global operations. You will partner closely with various departments to develop and execute supply strategies that support business growth, customer commitments, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Global Supply & Demand Management

• Own global supply management for assigned RAID, NIC, GPU, and related commodities.
• Translate global demand, backlog, forecasts, and business priorities into actionable supplier supply plans.
• Identify supply constraints, shortages, and potential disruptions early and drive mitigation actions.
• Develop allocation and prioritization strategies during constrained supply situations.
• Ensure supply plans support customer requirements, revenue commitments, manufacturing schedules, and business priorities.

Supplier Management

• Manage supplier operational performance including supply commits, delivery performance, lead time, flexibility, responsiveness, and recovery execution.
• Conduct regular supply reviews with strategic suppliers and drive closure of supply gaps.
• Establish effective supplier escalation mechanisms for critical shortages or business-impacting issues.
• Work with suppliers to improve capacity visibility, commit accuracy, and supply flexibility.

Inventory Optimization

• Balance supply assurance and inventory efficiency, ensuring adequate supply protection while avoiding unnecessary inventory exposure.
• Manage inventory within established KPI targets and drive actions to mitigate excess and obsolete inventory risks.
• Monitor demand changes, lead-time changes, purchase commitments, and supply upside/downside exposure.
• Partner with Planning, Procurement, and Finance teams to optimize global inventory positioning.

Shortage & Risk Management

• Proactively identify supply risks related to capacity, semiconductor availability, product transitions, supplier dependencies, geopolitical events, and logistics disruptions.
• Lead cross-functional shortage management and recovery plans.
• Develop contingency strategies including alternative supply, upside capacity, allocation optimization, and qualification of alternate solutions where appropriate.
• Provide clear management-level visibility of critical supply risks, business impact, recovery timing, and required decisions.

Cross-functional & Global Collaboration

• Partner closely with GCM, Engineering, Planning, Sales, Operations, Manufacturing, Finance/OE-CF, quality teams, regional procurement organizations, and suppliers.
• Coordinate supply execution across global manufacturing locations and regions including China, Mexico, Brazil, India, Europe, and other operational sites.
• Support new product introductions, product transitions, end-of-life planning, and supplier/component changes from a supply-management perspective.
• Drive alignment between commercial strategy, technical roadmap, demand outlook, supplier capacity, and operational execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field.
• 8+ years in supply chain, supply management, procurement, commodity management, planning, or supplier management.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes including demand planning, supply planning, supplier commits, PO execution, inventory management, and shortage management.
• Experience managing complex global supply situations and working with multiple manufacturing sites and regional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex supply-demand data into actionable decisions.
• Strong supplier negotiation, escalation, and relationship-management capabilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills in a global, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities in a fast-changing supply environment.
• Strong Excel/data-analysis capability and experience using enterprise supply-planning/ERP tools.

Nice to Have

• Candidates from competitors with similar previous roles.
• Master of AI tools.

We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment.
• Professional development and growth opportunities.

About the Company

Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

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