Sakari Sippola
About
Sakari Sippola is from 美国 华盛顿州 雷德蒙德. Sakari works in the following industries: "电信", "计算机软件", "半导体", "金融服务", "消费类电子产品", and "信息技术和服务". Sakari is currently Head Of Sourcing at Oracle, located in Greater Seattle Area. In Sakari's previous role as a Chief Procurement Officer at Verifone, Sakari worked in until Sep 2018. Prior to joining Verifone, Sakari was a Director Strategic Sourcing at Microsoft and held the position of Director Strategic Sourcing. Prior to that, Sakari was a Vice President Sourcing at Fairchild Semiconductor from May 2011 to Sep 2013. Sakari started working as Director, Product partnerships at Nokia in Jun 2010. From Apr 2009 to May 2010, Sakari was Director Gear Sourcing at Nokia. Prior to that, Sakari was a Senior Supply Line Manager at Nokia from Feb 2007 to Mar 2009. Sakari started working as Memory Purchasing manager at Nokia in Jan 2005.
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Sakari Sippola's current jobs
My team is responsible for all Sourcing activities for Oracle Cloud and On-Premise businesses. This includes Categories like CPU, SSD, HDD, NIC, HBA, Memory, Mechanical, full PCBAs along with managing Contract Manufacturers.
Sakari Sippola's past jobs
Responsible for Verifone Sourcing operations, including direct/indirect sourcing and Manufacturing
Responsible for Memory and Motherboard components My team is responsible for Memory/Combo memory sourcing (including SSDs) as well as motherboard components such as PCB/FPC, Analogue ICs (Drivers, PMICs etc.), Passives, LEDs, Discrete components and Crystals.
Responsible for the Global Sourcing and Facilities My organization is responsible for Global direct and indirect sourcing/procurement for Fairchild, together with Facilities
Responsible for a business line within the Nokia Gear (accessory group), including e.g 3rd party products and co-branded products. Product area point of view, e.g. Carrying and style products
Responsible for sourcing and procurement for the Nokia Accessory group. Member of the Accessory Leadership Team My group was responsible for the outsourcing activities for all Nokia Accessories. This included e.g Wired/Wireless headsets Cables Carrying cases Data connectivity Speakers Auto products
Running a team Responsible for Sourcing and procurement of Standard products category: e.g. Passives, STD ICs, Sensors, opto products. Over 1000 codes, 50+ suppliers, over 1B€ business value Achieved a 2 digit cost reduction performance together with my team, without having any supply or quality problems. Introduced should-cost approach to Nokia Std. IC sourcing
Responsible of Nokia mass storage memory sourcing Ownership of over one billion USD business yearly. I was the largest procurer of uSD memory cards in the world during that time - Introducing new technologies and supplier to ensure Nokia competitiveness - Supplier portfolio management - Heavy focus on cost reduction with great results -Creating a multi-source environment into the memorycards that other PMs after me continued