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Purchasing Manager

AMD· General Management/ Administration/ Support
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Hybrid (Austin, TX)$111.7k - $167.5kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Manager, Indirect Procurement for Engineering Categories at AMD. Lead a team of strategic sourcing managers and buyers responsible for third-party semiconductor IP licensing, EDA software and hardware emulation, engineering software, and outsourced engineering services. Develop multi-year category strategies, lead end-to-end negotiations, and drive supplier development and performance within a major indirect spend pool.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute multi-year category strategies for engineering categories, using spend analytics, supplier cost models and market intelligence to identify savings, technology access and risk-mitigation opportunities.
  • Lead major negotiations end to end: renewals, enterprise agreements, license buy-outs, statements of work and assignment or novation terms arising from acquisitions and divestitures.
  • Build the quantitative case behind each position, including normalized cost-per-capacity benchmarks, total cost of ownership comparisons across competing suppliers, and royalty or consumption models over the life of a program.
  • Own third-party IP contracting on behalf of the company: aggregate requirements across business units, establish a repeatable intake and approval process, and hold the commercial relationship rather than joining late as a signatory.
  • Redesign outsourced engineering services commercial models, moving from blended headcount rates toward deliverables-based, fixed-cost structures with agreed productivity metrics, shadow pricing during pilots and clear change-order visibility.
  • Run supplier performance management across the category, including quarterly scorecards covering service, technology roadmap, quality, responsiveness and flexibility, and escalate systematically when commitments slip.
  • Ensure every major transaction clears its governance path before signature: thresholds, technical accounting review, internal controls and required approvals are complete first, with no exceptions made under schedule pressure.
  • Partner with Engineering, Finance, Legal and IT to set cost targets, plan capacity and license requirements ahead of demand, and align procurement timing with program milestones and license expirations.
  • Prepare and deliver executive-level material: negotiation positions, capital and expense review board submissions, savings and risk reporting, and clear recommendations that a senior audience can act on quickly.
  • Champion Procure-to-Pay and Source-to-Pay process improvement, simplifying intake, approvals and purchase order execution so that engineering teams spend less time inside procurement workflows.
  • Manage, coach and develop the team: assign commodity ownership deliberately, build negotiation capability, create visibility for the team's results, and plan succession across specialist categories.

Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience with strategic sourcing or indirect procurement supporting engineering functions, including at least two years leading a team.
  • Proven results in negotiating large, complex technology agreements in the semiconductor or wider high-technology sector, ideally including EDA, semiconductor IP or engineering services.
  • Commercial fluency with licensing constructs: enterprise agreements, royalties, capacity and subscription pricing, buy-outs, assignment and novation, and consumption-based terms.
  • Experience of the contracting implications of acquisitions, divestitures and entity separations, including assignment letters and transition arrangements.
  • Working knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, Ariba Sourcing and procurement analytics, and comfort building cost models in Excel or equivalent tools.
  • Executive-level stakeholder management: able to influence without authority, hold a position under pressure, and write and present with brevity.
  • Strategic thinking supported by quantitative analysis
  • Negotiation strength and composure in high-value, single-source situations
  • Relationship building with engineering, finance and executive stakeholders
  • Leadership, coaching and visible advocacy for the team's results
  • AI literacy and a bias toward automating repetitive work
  • Risk management, compliance and controls orientation

Skills

Required:Strategic sourcingNegotiationFinancial modelingStakeholder management

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described in AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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