Director of Foundry Sourcing

This executive procurement role oversees foundry partnerships, sourcing strategy, capacity planning, and long-term commercial agreements for external wafer production. The leader manages a global team and coordinates with business units, engineering, operations, quality, finance, legal, and supply chain functions. Responsibilities include negotiating pricing and capacity, supporting product ramps and technology transfers, monitoring market and geopolitical risks, and improving supplier performance. The role also establishes supplier metrics and drives savings, resilience, risk reduction, and continuous improvement across the foundry portfolio. It suits an experienced semiconductor sourcing or operations leader with strong negotiation skills, deep knowledge of foundry economics and wafer manufacturing, and the ability to influence complex global organizations.