[Hiring] Manager, Strategic Supply Chain @Celestica International LP

Role Description

Provides leadership oversight for all SCM related matters for customer(s).

• Provides direction for source selection and supports the effort to identify and develop suppliers to meet current and future business needs.
• Supports efforts to reduce material cost and assess/respond to supply risks.
• Advises the supply chain management process for customers from materials pricing and BOM analysis to delivery execution and flexibility performance.
• Works cross functionally to optimize Design for supply chain performance of Celestica products.
• Responsible for customer interface from SCM including relationship management and as focal point for all SCM related issues, strategies and requirements.
• Maintains responsibility for a set of projects jointly developed by Celestica and customers.
• Deploys systems and processes ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Coordinates the response on all SCM customer enquiries.
• Participates in business process improvements to help achieve inventory targets and maximize return on investment.
• Interfaces with cross functional teams to ensure negotiations meet business requirements and growth plans.
• Supports working capital assumptions in the quote process, and later leads SCM optimization efforts to achieve or exceed quoted turns and plan.
• Drives customer engagement on demand planning, demand management, commitments, non-performing inventory and future process changes/improvements.
• Provides direction and support to site teams on SIOP, GAP inventory reviews and Strategic inventory proposals to customers.
• Reviews NPI BOMs and develops materials strategies.
• Identifies SMI opportunities and drives implementation, management, and performance of established SMIs.
• Drives localization and strategic sourcing activities for CLS-preferred suppliers.
• Supports SIOP revenue forecasting and execution throughout product launch (NPI to MP).
• Identifies SIOP demand-supply material shortages throughout product launch (NPI to MP).
• Identifies and develops higher level assembly and integration strategies where applicable.
• Coordinates 2nd sourcing qualifications and phase-ins.
• Coordinates CLS intersite activities where applicable.
• Provides strategic supply chain expertise, support and innovative solutions to internal SCM stakeholders and customers.
• Has responsibility for supply chain strategy for customers within their market and drives the initiatives with sites to support customer and Celestica requirements.
• Supports the SCM portion for the customer QBRs and with senior management at key/strategic suppliers, escalations and driving KPI improvement initiatives.
• Supports the team to ensure contractual claims for SCM related costs are recovered (e.g. E&O claims, premium for shortage management, NRE) and follow up escalations with customers for resolutions.
• Collaborates with customers on proposals, expedites and premiums and manages risks/liabilities for CLS, and provides guidance to ensure capacity is installed as needed.
• Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers.
• Provides leadership in the analysis of cost customer bids or quarterly BOM Costing exercises for global customers.
• Provides support to Commodity Management teams on contract negotiations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience.

Requirements

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties of this position require continuous light physical effort and exertion including prolonged repetitive motion, standing, sitting in a confined work space.

Company Description

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges.

As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.