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Our ~16,800 employees create world-class solutions in communications, 5G, automotive, energy, quantum, aerospace, defense, and semiconductor markets for customers in over 100 countries. Learn more about what we do.\nOur award-winning culture embraces a bold vision of where technology can take us and a passion for tackling challenging problems with industry-first solutions. We believe that when people feel a sense of belonging, they can be more creative, innovative, and thrive at all points in their careers.\nKeysight is seeking an Expert-level Procurement Specialist to join the New Product Introduction (NPI) Technology Procurement team within Supply Chain. This role is the key technical contributor for supplier relationships supporting Keysight's internal precision manufacturing organization, which delivers high-precision machined, plated, and assembled mechanical components used across markets including 5G, semiconductor, aerospace and defense, and automotive.\nResponsibilities\nThis is a specialized, high-impact role: rather than executing predefined procurement plans, this person takes broad business objectives and strategies and translates them into structured supplier and commodity plans, then leads execution independently.\nResponsibilities include:\nNegotiating commercial agreements and pricing structures with strategic suppliers supporting NPI and production\nLeading the design and delivery of supplier management processes and programs, serving as the technical authority on supplier capability, capacity, and performance\nReducing broad NPI and commodity strategy objectives into structured project plans, then leading execution against them\nSolving complex, high-impact supply base problems such as capacity constraints, resourcing decisions, cost and quality escalations by using in-depth industry and supplier knowledge\nAssessing supplier capabilities and capacity, and shaping the supply base to meet current and future NPI/production needs\nLeading process improvement initiatives related to NPI execution, resourcing, cost reduction, and quality, often originating and designing the approach rather than following an established one\nActing as the primary point of accountability across R&D Management, R&D Engineering, Supply Chain Planning and Procurement, Manufacturing Operations, and Global Procurement, exercising independent judgment aligned to broad organizational objectives\nThis is an on-site role located at Keysight Headquarters in Santa Rosa, CA. 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