Indirect Procurement Sourcing Manager

The impact you’ll make

As Indirect Procurement Sourcing Manager, you will lead commercial procurement activities across multiple spend categories.  You will help shape bid strategies, run competitive tendering, perform bid leveling, and negotiate contracts and change orders to deliver best-value outcomes (cost, schedule, quality, safety, and risk). 

This position is intended for an experienced procurement professional who can quickly integrate with project teams, manage multiple workstreams in parallel, and drive clear commercial outcomes with suppliers. Success requires strong understanding of commercial construction bidding, capital equipment, professional services, and other related categories.   

The Sourcing Manager will drive procurement support for various projects across multiple spend categories, as assigned.

What you’ll do

The Sourcing Manager will: 

• Develop sourcing and tendering strategies for various projects and scopes aligned to project schedule and design maturity. 
• Run end-to-end competitive bids: develop RFIs/RFPs/RFQs, manage bidder communications, chair bid walks, and ensure clear scope definition and commercial terms. 
• Perform bid analysis and leveling (scope, inclusions/exclusions, assumptions, schedule impacts), partnering with design/construction leads or other stakeholders to validate technical alignment. 
• Lead commercial negotiations and contracting: pricing structure, payment terms, retention, liquidated damages, insurance, warranties, bonds, and key risk clauses in coordination with Legal. 
• Support cost estimating/cost modeling, should-cost reviews, and value engineering discussions to improve total installed cost while maintaining required standards. 
• Drive contract administration support: change order evaluation, claims avoidance, progress payment reviews, and commercial issue resolution. 
• Partner cross-functionally with Construction/Facilities, Engineering/Design, EHS, Finance, and Legal to ensure procurement decisions support safety, quality, schedule, and compliance requirements. 
• Track procurement milestones and savings/value metrics (award schedule, cost vs. estimate, change order trends) and provide concise status reporting to project leadership. 
• Assess supplier/contractor commercial risk (financial stability, capacity, contract exposure) and recommend mitigation actions. 
• Maintain a qualified bidder list and support market intelligence on regional construction conditions, labor/material pricing, and contracting practices. 
• Conduct negotiations and communications in Korean and English with contractors/suppliers as needed. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Package Strategy & Planning: Define bid packages, contracting approach (lump sum, unit rate, GMP), and tender calendars aligned to design maturity and construction phasing. 
• Tender Management: Prepare and issue bid documents, manage Q&A/addenda, and ensure a fair, auditable competitive process. 
• Commercial Negotiation & Award: Lead negotiation of price, terms, and risk allocation; prepare award recommendations and support internal approvals. 
• Costing & Bid Leveling: Evaluate bids vs. estimates, normalize assumptions, and document clarifications, inclusions/exclusions, alternates, and allowances. 
• Design & Scope Alignment: Work with design/construction stakeholders to confirm scope completeness and reduce gaps that drive change orders and claims. 
• Contracting Support: Assist with contract redlines, exhibits, and commercial schedules; support post-award administration (payments, changes, closeout). 
• Risk & Compliance: Identify commercial and delivery risks and support mitigation plans; ensure compliance with procurement policies and required documentation. 
• Stakeholder Communication: Provide clear reporting and communicate effectively in Korean and English with internal teams and external bidders. 

Reports to:  Indirect Procurement Lead - Korea 

Works With: Regional Procurement Lead, Key Manufacturing, Lab and Commercial Stakeholders, including Project Leads, Project Managers, Construction/Facilities Project Team, Design Partners, Legal, Finance, Environmental Health and Safety and others as required. 

The job is inidividual contributor.

Who we’re looking for

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Business, Supply Chain, or related field (or equivalent experience). 
• Experience: 10+ years in procurement, including supporting categories including commercial construction, capital equipment, related services.  Experience should include procurement/estimating/sourcing, including competitive bidding, costing, and contract negotiation for capital projects. Semiconductor, cleanroom, advanced manufacturing, or lab/critical facilities experience is strongly preferred. 
• Professional English communication skills (written and verbal). 
• Strong construction commercial acumen: bid leveling, scope analysis, pricing structures, and risk/claim awareness. 
• Hands-on contract negotiation and drafting support (e.g., GC/CM agreements, trade contracts, MSAs/SOWs, change orders). 
• Strong analytical skills, including cost breakdown review and reconciliation of estimate vs. bid vs. awarded value. 
• Ability to work effectively with design, construction, and legal teams; confident leading supplier/contractor meetings and negotiations. 
• Tools: Proficiency with Excel-based bid leveling, cost models, and document control; familiarity with eSourcing/procurement suites and construction contract administration tools is a plus. 

Preferred qualifications

• Consulting Mindset: Able to ramp quickly, work independently, and deliver outcomes within a defined assignment window. 
• Stakeholder Management: Comfortable operating in a matrixed project team and influencing decisions with clear facts and recommendations. 
• Attention to Detail: Produces clear bid tabs, negotiation summaries, and award documentation suitable for audit and governance reviews. 
• Critical Facilities Exposure: Experience with labs/cleanrooms, high-purity utilities, or other complex MEP-intensive projects. 
• Market Knowledge: Strong understanding of regional contractor landscape, pricing drivers, and contracting norms. 
• Process Discipline: Consistently applies structured sourcing, documentation, and approval processes while moving quickly. 
• Negotiation Strength: Confident negotiating high-value construction packages and managing difficult commercial conversations. 
• Contracting & Compliance: Familiarity with standard construction contract terms, insurance/bonding requirements, and basic regulatory/compliance expectations. 
• Business Acumen: Balances cost, schedule, and risk tradeoffs; supports leadership with concise options and recommendations. 
• Additional languages are a plus. 

Our commitment

We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.

Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.

Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.