- Participate in research and analysis to identify project requirements, conceptualizing plans, designing, and developing systems, establishing guidelines and goals, and creating strategy to optimize operational activities for new product introduction.
- Work with Engineering, Quality, Commodity and NPI to ensure success in new product development and launch.
- Manage and coordinate in earlier supplier involvement in new product introduction from part design phase through mass production, ensure critical timeline and target COSS are met.
- Ensures that Cost, Quality and Availability are achieved for product development phase and through their full life cycle.
- Manage supplier onboarding process and selection with integrity, alignment across value-chain and value engineering.
- Manage cost activities.
- Responsible in ensuring best-in-class cost, thru negotiation and/or tear down activities.
- Identifies cost drivers to influence design decision making towards target costing.
- Ensure product/module cost models and quotes are up to date at launch and effectively rolled out.
- Reviews and negotiates supplier terms and conditions exceptions to mitigate risk.
- Supports price negotiations with opportunities to drive short- and long-term cost reduction improvement.
- Builds strong, value-added relationships with suppliers, internal customers, and cross functional departments.
- Collaborates with Supplier Quality in the new supplier/component release process, including compliance and sustainability aspects.
- Partners Category team, ensuring BU product requirement and supplier technology alignment are included in building Commodity Strategy. Supporting and executing category strategy.
- Analyze lead times, identify critical paths, and prioritize demand requirements.
- Participates in project meetings/brainstorming sessions to identify solutions available.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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