Materials Program Management

Celestica•Plano, TX

2d•$75,000 - $115,000•Onsite

About The Position

Celestica is looking for a Material Program Manager (MPM) to serve as the strategic bridge between our Supply Chain, Engineering, and Production teams. In this role, you will lead the end-to-end material strategy for high-complexity power electronics projects and ensure components are available to meet manufacturing timelines. You will be responsible for understanding customer demands and translating forecasts into actionable material requirements through a master production plan.

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.
Experince with ERP/MRP systems such as SAP, RapidResponse, and/or Oracle.
Strong application of MS Office applications: Excel , PowerPoint, Word and Google Suite equivalent.
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 in order to gather required customer information.
Develops wide personal network of contacts, internally, and where appropriate externally.
Adopts a proactive approach to running the business.
Three to six years of relevant experience.
Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

Interfaces with Business Office, Production, Procurement, Planning and customers to compile, develop, validate, and communicate production/shipments plans that support overall business goals.
Participates in Master Planning review and procurement actions from MRP process.
Coordinates with planning on customer requirements, changes, in order to assess costs and actual feasibility.
Identifies business process enhancements and participates in their design and implementation.
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.
Reviews all terms and conditions agreed to in the Celestica/Customer contract to assess SCM's ability to meet these requirements.
Identify Celestica's SCM new product process requirements to the customer, and ensure all information is received and SCM processes initiated effectively.
Coordinates Bill of Material analysis.
Supports New Product Introduction (NPI). Reviews content, lead time constraints, critical parts supply and component reliability issues.
Ensures alternate source capability to maintain supply continuity and verify that customer costs can be supported.
Reviews, submits, and manages all customer material bid requests.
Resolves any issues with customers and internal teams.
Manages customer relationship from Supply Chain perspective.
Obtains and disseminates customer SCM feedback to team.
Champions improvements and communicates action plans.