First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset. Basic Job Functions: The Senior Manager Global Sourcing is responsible for developing the strategy and ensuring its execution, managing the sourcing and procurement plan for global module manufacturing raw materials. The Senior Manager is the leader that develops, guides, and measures these focus areas: Supplier management: The process of selection of suppliers, segmentation of supply base, contract negotiation and compliance, metrics management, conflict resolution, and supplier performance management. Proactive supplier risk mitigation and visibility: Ensuring business continuity planning, governance, and management for all types of supplier risk (including geographical, financial, performance related, financial, geopolitical, and corporate social responsibility/regulatory compliance risks). Business value: Provide supplier oversight to ensure business value (e.g., cost, service, quality, and reduced risk) and open communication on production improvement and new product introduction on all direct and indirect goods and services for continuous improvement. Talent and development: Ensure ongoing focus on developing the talent of the sourcing and procurement organization to manage the changing role of sourcing and procurement staff. This includes relationship management, conflict resolution, internal stakeholder needs, value creation with suppliers, innovation, and agility in a fast-moving business environment. Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in operations/supply chain management/business, or 10 years of experience - required. Master's degree in operations/supply chain management/business, or equivalent - desired. Membership in professional organizations, such as trade or user groups, and a pattern of regular attendance at industry conferences to enhance their knowledge of supply chain sourcing and procurement - desired. 10+ years with a high tech, preferably solar industry, global span with strong commercial exposure and understanding. Experience working directly with suppliers, understanding trade-offs for total cost to serve supplier and commercial needs, and collaborating with them to create a mutually beneficial joint business plan. Provided operational leadership with direct and indirect (as applicable) reports in sourcing and procurement. Hands-on experience working with multiple partners to resolve exceptions and negotiate best alternatives: Experience working within supply chain functions with proven leadership capability. Hands-on experience with modeling, analysis and simulation tools. Experience using PC-based applications (such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and/or Access). Hands-on information gathering, analysis and management reporting. Has successfully worked in a team-based environment. Required Skills/Competencies: Provide strong and visible leadership. The position will need to establish authority within the sourcing and procurement organization and influence other functions within the organization, such as quality, engineering, finance, product design/development and legal. Use strategic thinking to shape the plan and gain buy-in from the sourcing and procurement organization and other stakeholder functions. Enlist strong process and project management skills/ability to manage change. Employ strong people skills - an ability to envision, energize and enable the sourcing and procurement organization and other functions, and, where necessary, lead performance management decisions. Have an ability to work multifunctionally across organization boundaries in a collaborative manner. Be proficient using PC-based applications (such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and/or Access). Understand enterprise technology tools that enable sourcing and procurement execution and reporting.