Silicon Partner and Vendor Manager

Project

Work done for a product or program.

• Maintain roadmap alignment with merchant silicon, ASIC and foundry partners.
• Negotiate pricing, volume commitments and long-term supply agreements.
• Run quarterly business reviews with scorecards on quality, delivery and support.
• Escalate technical and supply problems to partner executives.
• Coordinate engineering access, NDAs and IP terms between partners and internal teams.
• Evaluate new silicon vendors and second-source options.
• Track partner financial health and geopolitical or export-control exposure.

Function

Work that keeps the discipline running: methods, tools, suppliers and people.

• Maintain the policies, processes and tools of the function.General
• Keep the function compliant with legal, financial and regulatory requirements.General
• Report the function's performance and improve it over time.General

Project

1. Produce and hand over the role's key deliverables
   • Partner roadmap alignment document
   • Vendor scorecard and QBR deck
   • Negotiated supply and pricing agreements
   • Second-source evaluation report
2. Support programsGeneral
   • Agree what each program needs
   • Deliver in time for milestones
3. Manage issuesGeneral
   • Track requests to closure
   • Escalate risks

Function

1. Run the functionGeneral
   • Maintain policies and processes
   • Keep records and controls
2. ImproveGeneral
   • Report performance
   • Lead improvement work