Responsibilities
- Communicate Forecasts requirements to suppliers
- Disseminate MRP demand signals and provide updated changes in Build Plan to supplier
- Critical part and regional supplier management
- Supplier collaboration to ensure delivery commits support production planning and Customer shipments.
- Collaborates with engineering team to interpret engineering requirements
- Conduct weekly CTB with suppliers to ensure delivery commits support Customers requirements.
- Utilizes the preferred supplier selection and assessment process when selecting suppliers
- Provide guidance to supplier risk assessment on critical and unique parts
- Monitors supplier performance in term of OTD, variances and defects (delivery, quality, cost)
- Coordinates activities around source selection, specification creation and price negotiation with appropriate team members
- Executes and support commercialization (transition) materials plan
- Manages materials change control process supply continuity
- Generates and publishes Key Process Indicators
- Collaborate with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long-lead parts and inspection requirements for transition
- Assists in developing supplier and commodity road maps
- Utilizes Should Cost analysis on new materials introduction to support customer shipment
- Actively mediates and partners with quality and engineering teams to resolve supplier quality issues for assigned product groups
Requirements
- Bachelor in Supply Chain or Engineering with minimum 5 years’ experience in a related field
- Demonstrates conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines
- Knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others and is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
- Able to lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements
- Able to solve complex problems, take a new perspective on existing solutions and exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
- Ability to impact a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams and works within broad guidelines and policies
- Explains difficult or sensitive information and works to build consensus
Additional Job Description
Travel requirement:
10-20%
