Strategic Category Analyst

Our vision is to transform how the world uses information to enrich life for all. Join an inclusive team passionate about one thing: using their expertise in the relentless pursuit of innovation for customers and partners. The solutions we build help make everything from virtual reality experiences to breakthroughs in neural networks possible. We do it all while committing to integrity, sustainability, and giving back to our communities. Because doing so can fuel the very innovation we are pursuing.

Role Description

As a Strategic Category Analyst at Micron Technology, you will be responsible for driving the analytics, data and information gathering necessary to achieve the strategic objectives.  You will work with your team members and stakeholders across Micron’s global sites, working collaboratively to ensure Micron meets current profitability objectives and achieves future cost-down aspirations.

You will collaborate with various sourcing and engineering teams, site leaders and other stakeholders.  You will help the team monitor key internal metrics, evaluate category market conditions/trends, supply/demand challenges and other pertinent category dynamics. 

You will lead cross-functional initiatives across category teams and stakeholders with the category analysts. You will be responsible for developing and implementing actionable insights that enable the category team to achieve business objectives.

What are the Primary Responsibilities?

Analytics & Data Management

• Be Responsible for Reporting Cost Savings Spend Analytics and overall Category Scorecards to Micron leaders
• Advise and help develop analytical models for analysis to deliver high impact business analytics
• Provide oversite to team members to ensure data integrity and accessibility and partner with IT, BI, Fin, Eng, Mfg,

Market Intelligence & Competitive Benchmarking

• Use Market Intelligence needs including industry research, supply network, risk and benchmarking
• Help to analyze and understand impact to category strategy where needed; deliver recommendations to support strategic direction
• Collect and use Financial data for suppliers, and provide guidance for interpretation

Leadership

• Enable cost transparency, analyze the cost drivers and calculate the target cost
• Communicate frequently to leaders and stakeholders and provide regular updates
• Establish relevant KPIs to monitor, measure, and communicate results

What type of person will succeed?

The ideal candidate has strong critical thinking, analytics and data management skills.  The ability to work in a complex, global team environment and effectively navigate all levels of the organization.

• An objective person who is interested in developing and mentoring others to become high performers
• Can be comfortable taking on new challenges, leading in diverse situations, tackling complex problems
• An analytic problem solver that enjoys generating ideas, but is equally committed to seeing them through, designing and implementing plans that transform those ideas into tangible results
• Superior ability to communicate in a structured, clear and influential way, with Stakeholders and Senior Leaders/Executives
• A continuous improvement mindset that constantly seeks opportunities to do things more efficiently; works with stakeholders/leaders to improve relevant business processes
• Team player, encourager, motivator

Experiences & Education

• 0-3 years of professional data management and analysis experience
• Bachelors’ degree required (MBA preferred); Business, Engineering, or Science major (preferred)
• Analytics and Problem-Solving enthusiasm and aptitude is more important than degree subject
• Procurement, Category Management, Supply Chain background a plus
• Strong aptitude with data and information management, and reporting tools: Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Tableau, SharePoint, etc.
• Financial and/or other analytics software, SQL and VBA aptitude a plus

Location

US, San Jose

About Micron Technology, Inc.

We are an industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions transforming how the world uses information to enrich life for all. With a relentless focus on our customers, technology leadership, and manufacturing and operational excellence, Micron delivers a rich portfolio of high-performance DRAM, NAND, and NOR memory and storage products through our Micron® and Crucial® brands. Every day, the innovations that our people create fuel the data economy, enabling advances in artificial intelligence and 5G applications that unleash opportunities — from the data center to the intelligent edge and across the client and mobile user experience.

To learn more, please visit micron.com/careers

Micron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Please note that in order to assist in providing a safe and healthy workplace for all Micron team members, new employment offers for jobs based in India, Malaysia, Singapore, and the U.S., are contingent upon the applicant’s provision of a copy of their COVID-19 vaccination document to Micron on a confidential basis prior to their scheduled start date confirming that they have completed the COVID-19 vaccination process, subject to any written request for medical or religious accommodation and to the extent permitted by applicable law.

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