Materials Program Management

Band: 08 | Region: Americas | Country: USA | State/Province: Texas | City: Richardson

About the role

Incumbents apply in-depth knowledge in a specific area of specialization. Work is performed within established professional standards and practices. Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors and a considerable degree of judgement. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results may have a negative impact on the division’s/department’s operations, schedules, and/or performance goals. Works under minimum supervision, seeking approval from others on matters outside of job/role scope. Receives instruction on specific assignment objectives and possible solutions. Unusual problems are solved jointly with manager. Work is reviewed for application of sound technical judgment. May lead a work group or project team consisting of technical and support staff. Builds internal and external relationships, with emphasis on those that facilitate the achievement of job/role accountabilities, such as relationships with key suppliers, customers, and internal service.

Responsibilities

• Interfaces with Business Office, Production, Procurement, Planning, and customers to compile, develop, validate, and communicate production/shipments plans that support overall business goals.
• Identifies business process enhancements and participates in their design and implementation.
• Participates in Master Planning review and procurement actions from MRP process.
• Coordinates with planning on customer requirements and changes to assess costs and actual feasibility.
• Supports new product introduction.
• In coordination with Business Office, negotiates with customer on behalf of SCM on any materials management related activity such as schedules, costs, and Engineering Change implementation.
• Provides customer with technology information, supplier capabilities, and market trends to complement SCM activities.
• Reviews all terms and conditions agreed to in the Celestica/Customer contract to assess SCM's ability to meet these requirements.
• Partners with Business Office in negotiating Terms and Conditions in relation to SCM activities with customer.
• Identifies Celestica's SCM new product process requirements to the customer and ensures all information is received and SCM processes initiated effectively.
• Coordinates Bill of Material analysis.
• Reviews content, lead time constraints, critical parts supply, and component reliability issues.
• Ensures alternate source capability to maintain supply continuity and verifies that customer costs can be supported.
• Manages materials bid process: reviews and submits all customer material bid requests and resolves any issues with customer or internal team.
• Manages customer relationship from a Supply Chain perspective.
• Obtains and disseminates customer SCM feedback to the team, champions improvements, and communicates action plans.

Requirements

• In-depth understanding of all aspects of the global supply chain, Celestica's strategic policies and objectives, and its suppliers and customers.
• Good understanding of specific customers' business, organization, products, and processes.
• Fundamentals of financial product cost structures and asset management techniques.
• Extensive ability to utilize computer systems and applications to gather required information and compile it into a customer-presentable format.
• Good formal presentation skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate all SCM-related activities in an appropriate manner to the customer and internal team.
• Applies analysis and judgement to assess performance against key measures and determine priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to interface cross-functionally to gather required customer information.
• Develops a wide personal network of contacts, internally and, where appropriate, externally.
• Adopts a proactive approach to running their part of the business.

Qualifications

• Three to six years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience. Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Physical Demands

• Duties are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator) are frequently required.