10 - Manager, Strategic Supply Chain 2

<p>Req ID: 135091 <br> Remote Position: Yes <br> Region: Americas <br> Country: USA </p> <div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><h2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">General Overview</h2> </div><div><p><b>Functional Area</b>: Supply Chain Management (SCM)<br> <b>Career Stream</b>: Market Supply Chain (SCM_MSC)<br> <b>Role</b>: Manager 2<br> <b>Job Title</b>: Manager, Strategic Supply Chain 2<br> <b>Job Code</b>: MG2-SCM-MSC<br> <b>Job Level</b>: Level 10<br> <b>Direct/Indirect Indicator</b>: Indirect</p> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><h2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Detailed Description</h2> </div><div><ul> <li>Provides leadership oversight for all SCM related matters for customer(s).</li> <li>Provides direction for source selection and supports the effort to identify and develop suppliers to meet current and future business needs.</li> <li>Supports efforts to reduce material cost and assess/respond to supply risks.</li> <li>Advises the supply chain management process for customers from materials pricing and BOM analysis to delivery execution and flexibility performance.</li> <li>Works cross functionally to optimize Design for supply chain performance of Celestica products.</li> <li>Responsible for customer interface from SCM including relationship management and as focal point for all SCM related issues, strategies and requirements.</li> <li>Maintains responsibility for a set of projects jointly developed by Celestica and customers.</li> <li>Deploys systems and processes ensuring customer satisfaction.</li> <li>Coordinates the response on all SCM customer enquiries.</li> <li>Participates in business process improvements to help achieve inventory targets and maximize return on investment.</li> <li>Interfaces with cross functional teams to ensure negotiations meet business requirements and growth plans.</li> <li>Supports working capital assumptions in the quote process, and later leads SCM optimization efforts to achieve or exceed quoted turns and plan.</li> <li>Drives customer engagement on demand planning, demand management, commitments, non-performing inventory and future process changes /improvements.</li> <li>Provides direction and support to site teams on SIOP, GAP inventory reviews and Strategic inventory proposals to customers.</li> <li>Reviews NPI BOMs and develops materials strategies</li> <li>Identifies SMI opportunities and drives implementation, management, and performance of established SMIs</li> <li>Drives localization and strategic sourcing activities for CLS-preferred suppliers</li> <li>Supports SIOP revenue forecasting and execution throughout product launch (NPI to MP)</li> <li>Identifies SIOP demand-supply material shortages throughout product launch (NPI to MP)</li> <li>Identifies and develops higher level assembly and integration strategies where applicable</li> <li>Coordinates 2nd sourcing qualifications and phase-ins</li> <li>Coordinates CLS intersite activities where applicable</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Supports the SCM portion for the customer QBRs and with senior management at key/strategic suppliers, escalations and driving KPI improvement initiatives.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Collaborates with customers on proposals, expedites and premiums and manages risks/liabilities for CLS, and provides guidance to ensure capacity is installed as needed.</li> <li>Regularly interacts with executives and/or major customers.</li> <li>Provides leadership in the analysis of cost customer bids or quarterly BOM Costing exercises for global customers.\</li> <li>Provides support to Commodity Management teams on contract negotiations.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><h2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Knowledge/Skills/Competencies</h2> </div><div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><h2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Physical Demands</h2> </div><div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li>Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.</li> <li>Duties of this position require continuous light physical effort and exertion including prolonged repetitive motion, standing, sitting in a confined work space.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><h2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Typical Experience</h2> </div><div><p>10+ years of experience</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><h2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Typical Education</h2> </div><div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><h2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Notes</h2> </div><div><p>This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.</p> </div></div></div><p><span style="font-size:11.0px">Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws. <br> This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.<br> Celestica is an E-Verify employer.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0px">Location: This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0px"><b>COMPANY OVERVIEW:</b><br> 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.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:11.0px">Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.<br> Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.</span></p>

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