Siwen Li
New Canaan,Connecticut
Summary
Dynamic Senior Global Sourcing Manager at Intel with proven expertise in strategic sourcing and contract negotiation. Successfully led teams to achieve significant cost reductions and supplier quality improvements. Adept in vendor management, driving initiatives that resulted in hundreds of millions in savings while fostering strong cross-functional collaboration. Quality-focused Purchasing Manager familiar with vendor sourcing and vetting, contract negotiation and budget administration. Strong understanding of financial processes and requirements for accurate and thorough recordkeeping. Determined professional with track record of building productive networks of suppliers and obtaining materials at low prices. Demonstrated strengths in forecasting, budgeting and inventory management. Accomplished Senior Purchasing Manager with history of overseeing multi-million dollar procurement operations. Strategic planner offering track record and core strengths in key relationship management, inventory management as well as persuasive contract negotiation skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Global Gas Sourcing Manager
Intel Corporation
03.2024 - Current
- Lead a group of commodity managers and supply chain engineers to manage global gas sourcing and sustaining management for Intel's global fabs, including Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Asia fabs, as well as future fabs in Europe.
- Lead the spec gas sourcing process to enable cost reduction, business continuity, or reduce availability risks for gases in an unstable market, such as helium, CO2, disilane, etc.
- Lead the global supply chain quality program to drive supplier quality improvement, including supplier quality assessment, and line walks.
- Engage with the R&D team to look forward to any new gas potentially needed for new Intel technology or for sustainability purposes.
Senior Memory Supply Chain Capital Sourcing Manager
Intel Corporation - California
11.2022 - 03.2024
- Leading a team of approximately 20 procurement professionals, including commodity managers and equipment development engineers.
- Memory Capital tool forecast and procurement process developer and owner, including how to enable R&D tool early forecast when the requirement is uncertain, equipment review board (collaborative meeting with the technical team for tool selection), and evaluation tool performance monitoring process. Commercial decision maker for Intel Memory Group
- Collaborates with pathfinding and technical teams to define strategic capital tool requirements for future multiple generations, executes sourcing strategy with requests for proposals/quotes, and negotiates tool commercial specifications, including strategic head-to-head negotiations.
- Collaborates with the factory cost team to define the wafer affordability target at the project level and the capital purchase strategy (upgrade/new buy/leverage legacy tool).
- Drives the commercial team to complete all negotiations with clear goals and targets.
Supply Chain Capital Sourcing Manager
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
09.2018 - 11.2022
- Led a team of commodity managers, equipment development engineers, site service program managers
- Core scope: Asia-based equipment supplier introduction, onsite equipment tool performance management and ramp management
- Asian equipment site program lead with >20 new equipment suppliers from South Korea, Japan and China introduced to Intel for the first time
- Managed onsite Capital tool quality performance with severity level A/B/C defined (priority set)
- Claimed back hundreds of millions of dollars compensation/damage from suppliers by leveraging contract and solid root cause analysis through model-based problem-solving process
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define spares parts long-term strategy by considering parts cost and engineer technical capabilities
- Daily tool performance escalation management including parts failure, machine availability gap, service performance gap
- Led site ramp program including managing schedule negative flow, Installation field service engineers resource planning and execution especially for top capacity limiters
Global Commodity Manager
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
11.2016 - 08.2018
- Analyzed top 80% spenders for the fab
- Through active RFI/RFP process to understand price benchmark in all markets especially in Asia
- Led contract negotiations and drove pricing reduction in diverse commodities including slurry, precursors, bulk gas, hazardous waste, Lithography photoresists,
- With deep understanding in should cost and market price
- Actively leverage competitive negotiation skills and enabled 40% - 50% cost reduction for every single project with hundreds of millions of savings achieved
Repair Project Manager
Intel Corporation - California
05.2015 - 10.2016
- Led global buyers from each of Intel’s wafer fabs to analyze global existing repair capabilities, explored additional in-house and outsourced repair capability and delivered significant savings to the company
Spares 3rd Party Logistics Service Manager
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
06.2014 - 04.2015
- Responsible for onsite spares third party logistics service supplier performance management
- The core scope: urgent part delivery service level agreement, missing parts management, warehouse space management
- Led offsite warehouse readiness project from supplier selection, commercial negotiation, construction schedule management to operation readiness
- In this project, a 2nd supplier was selected with lots of strategic value to the site even if the incumbent supplier made lots of commercial threats
Virtual Factory Program Manager
Intel Corporation - Arizona
07.2013 - 05.2014
- Led worldwide parts harvest program from global excess production tool and distribute parts to the right location via comprehensive analysis which delivered millions of dollars in savings
- The program goal is to harvest right part at right timing and distribute to the right global site to maximize savings
Chemical 3PL Service Manager
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
01.2011 - 06.2013
- Responsible for chemical 3rd Party Logistics (3PL) service supplier performance managements and led a very challenging project to switch the incumbent supplier out by completing onsite and offsite chemical and gas inventory cycle count, system data transitions, equipment handover, staff transitions with zero impact to the wafer fab factory operation
Fab Buyer
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
08.2008 - 01.2011
- Responsible for inventory management and order fulfillment
- Lean champion of the department, focus on process improvements by eliminating wastes and cross-functional process alignment & improvements
Education
Leadership Certificate - Leadership
Stanford LEAD Program
03-2025
Master’s - Supply Chain Management
Dalian Maritime University
Dalian, China01.2008
Bachelor’s - Environmental Engineering
Dalian Maritime University
Dalian, China01.2006
Skills
- Strategic sourcing and contract negotiation
- Organizational skills
- Vendor management
- Building and leading teams
Certification
- PMP Certified
- IACCM Certified (World Commerce & Contracting Certificate)
- Stanford LEAD Program sponsored by Intel procurement VP (Course included: Finance innovation, Critical analytical thinking, Value-based leadership, Building power to lead, strategic leadership, organization design)
Accomplishments
- Continuous DRA winner (division recognition award) for delivering solid and impactful business result to Intel
- Recognized as one of the top leader in global supply chain organization
Timeline
Senior Global Gas Sourcing Manager
Intel Corporation
03.2024 - Current
Senior Memory Supply Chain Capital Sourcing Manager
Intel Corporation - California
11.2022 - 03.2024
Supply Chain Capital Sourcing Manager
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
09.2018 - 11.2022
Global Commodity Manager
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
11.2016 - 08.2018
Repair Project Manager
Intel Corporation - California
05.2015 - 10.2016
Spares 3rd Party Logistics Service Manager
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
06.2014 - 04.2015
Virtual Factory Program Manager
Intel Corporation - Arizona
07.2013 - 05.2014
Chemical 3PL Service Manager
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
01.2011 - 06.2013
Fab Buyer
Intel Corporation - Dalian, China
08.2008 - 01.2011
Leadership Certificate - Leadership
Stanford LEAD Program
Master’s - Supply Chain Management
Dalian Maritime University
Bachelor’s - Environmental Engineering
Dalian Maritime University
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