- Drives sourcing/pricing strategies in materials quotations.
- Interfaces with customers or suppliers in new project start-ups, for cost of ownership issues.
- Develops and guides the implementation of flexibility and supply assurance plans.
- Manages component cost/price on a local, regional, and global basis.
- Tracks material's financial performance and initiates corrective actions when required.
- Defines and implements pricing and costing strategies.
- Coordinate sourcing strategies with Supply Management and Customers.
- Develop and implement cost take-down strategies.
- Increase Vendor Managed Inventory, Reduced Guide-Time and Electronic Data Interface penetration.
Supply Management:
- Manage regional supplier contract negotiations, which includes Memorandums of Comprehension, Non-disclosure and regional pricing agreements.
- Develop and maintain supplier relationships.
- Measure and report Purchase Price Variance and initiate action plans.
- Monitor and manage supplier times.
- Mitigates shortages, excess on order and excess on hand.
- Participate on and help global and regional commodity teams.
- Contribute information/data on top spend suppliers for quarterly scorecards.
Customer Supply Chain Management:
- Manages material cost reviews. identify, implement and drive actions for Retained Purchase Price Variance (RPPV) optimization.
- Drive reconciliation process with customer (PPV, Premium charges, carrying costs, freight charges, excess and obsolete
- inventory, Non-cancelable, Non-Returnable (NCNR), etc.)
- Identify opportunities to increase turnkey business and develop materials management plan.
- Coordinate quarterly/monthly PPV hard call process.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Typically requires a minimum of 1 year of experience in finance, materials sourcing, commodity management or supply chain.
- Design/management or other related area.
- Must have an understanding of cost accounting, electronic component markets, price trends, and technologies.
- A background in electronics manufacturing and a thorough understanding of Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) products.
- To perform the major job responsibilities the use of the following tools may be required: Office Skills: telephones, data entry,
- Office software to include, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages, and database systems.
