Senior Category Manager I, Construction Trades - Boise - Micron Technology

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The U.S. Construction Trade Sourcing team at Micron is responsible for developing and delivering sourcing strategies that support the company's large-scale capital construction programs. The team works closely with internal collaborators and strategic trade contractors. They ensure reliable workforce capacity, competitive costs, and resilient supply for Micron's U.S. manufacturing expansion projects.

Welcome Are you ready to move your career to Micron? This is an exciting new role at Micron As a Senior Category Supplier Manager (CSM) for Construction Trades Sourcing, you will accomplish category strategies. You will also lead labor-ecosystem risk mitigation and procurement initiatives supporting Micron's large-scale building projects in the western U.S. This role supports major construction initiatives in Boise, Idaho-including mega fab construction, tool install, sustaining labor, and other large projects-while driving workforce development, labor-program implementation, and key partnerships with unions, merit-based organizations, community groups, and industry collaborators.

Responsibilities

• Lead category strategy execution, supplier governance, and procurement planning initiatives for construction trade labor across western U.S. projects.
• Analyze sourcing trends, labor-market conditions, supplier performance, and workforce development opportunities to advise category decisions.
• Drive and support negotiations for contract renewals, pricing, labor agreements, and labor-program requirements.
• Provide labor-rate benchmarking, should-cost analysis, and cost-trend insights to internal collaborators.
• Partner with unions, schools, merit-based organizations, and local networks to expand the skilled-trades pipeline and secure program funding.
• Ensure compliance with Project Labor Agreements, labor-program requirements, and workforce-stability initiatives accomplished by prime builders.
• Build and maintain positive relationships across general contractors, subcontractors, labor organizations, and community collaborators to strengthen workforce reliability and supply-chain resilience.
• This role will use AI to streamline manual program management tasks, surface trends in labor performance data faster, and improve the speed and quality of sourcing and workforce-related decisions

Minimum Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in procurement, category management, construction sourcing, or trade-labor program management.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Construction Management, Engineering, or related field-or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience in category management and strategic sourcing for construction, capital projects, or industrial environments.
• Experience coordinating construction labor programs (e.g., workforce development, union engagement, labor agreements, compliance).
• Strong negotiation and problem solving skills with demonstrated cost-management capability.
• Strong communication skills with experience managing relationships across prime builders, subcontractors, unions, and community partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting labor programs for mega fabs, semiconductor facilities, or other sophisticated industrial construction environments.
• Prior involvement in workforce development initiatives or skilled-trades pipeline expansion.
• Experience applying should-cost models and labor-market analytics to support sourcing decisions.
• Familiarity with Project Labor Agreements and execution of labor-program compliance requirements.
• Experience collaborating with industry, community, and government partners to address workforce barriers.
• Proven ability to support multi-site or large-volume construction labor programs.

As a world leader in the semiconductor industry, Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future. We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget. Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave. Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays. For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on .

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, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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