Senior Manager, Strategic Supply Chain

Celestica•Austin, TX

8d•Onsite

About The Position

This role drives the development of site customer-focused strategies, monitors team performance and metrics, and incorporates the Logistics vision into all aspects of planning. The Senior Manager is a recognized subject matter expert on Logistics processes, tools, and applications. They manage a team of direct and indirect resources to effectively support the execution of strategy deployment plans and contribute to multi-functional, regional, or global assignments.

Requirements

In-depth knowledge and understanding of global supply chain management, distribution methods, and global transportation services and inventory management.
Broad knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes.
Good understanding of IT concepts and integrated business applications.
Strong knowledge in all areas of import / export, regulatory and logistics management.
Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Significant skills required in multi-tasking and time management.
Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
Strong knowledge of the marketplace conditions for a broad range of strategic commodities in industry pricing, technology, supply/demand and emerging trends.
Strong knowledge of Celestica’s global supply chain including strategic policies and objectives and how they fit in.
Excellent understanding of the global business environment and Customers business, organization, products and processes.
Ability to lead complex negotiations effectively.
Ability to interface with many international sites to establish strong working relationships and cooperation.
Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of employees
12+ years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Materials Management, Engineering or related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

Provides support to the team on management of materials availability to support build plans throughout the product life cycle for a specific business unit or customer set.
Provides leadership in designing the supplier portion of the materials supply chain to provide optimum flexibility with minimum investment.
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.
Supports contracts and agreements for supplier chain related sections.
Supports the development of delivery requirements, material plans and short-range capacity plans to meet production schedules and inventory objectives.
Responsible for customer interface from SCM including relationship management and as focal point for all SCM related issues.
Responsible for tracking and driving inventory results by working with SCM Managers, Directors & GMs and customer VP/GMs.
Participates in business process improvements to help achieve inventory targets and maximize return on investment.
Works to ensure Celestica is compliant with customs and regulatory laws.
Supports freight & logistics optimization efforts for ensuring favorable rates and cycle times for Celestica and customers.
Directly manages a group of SCM employees including employee training, performance, measurement, development, motivation and recognition.
Establishes department goals/measurements and manages resources to achieve these goals.
Drives working capital assumptions in the quote process, and later leads SCM optimization efforts to achieve or exceed quoted turns and plan.
Supports new business quotes and ramp for new products as the key corporate stakeholder for the supply chain.
Primary customer interface focal point for SCM requirements and solutions, deployment of systems and processes ensuring customer satisfaction.
Collaborates with Customers on SCM strategies and requirements.
Drives customer engagement on demand planning, demand management & collaboration while improving the process.
Has the ownership of the SCM portion for the customer QBRs, Escalations and driving KPI improvement initiatives.
Leads market teams to optimize working capital performance.
Ensures contractual claims for SCM related costs are recovered (e.g. E&O, premium, NRE).
Leads & helps prepare responses on all SCM customer enquiries.
Coordinates supplier localization projects for customers within Celestica.
Provides direction and support to site teams on SIOP, GAP inventory reviews and Strategic inventory proposals to customers.
Drives supply chain improvement initiatives with sites to support customer and Celestica requirements.
Provides coaching and support for various cross functional teams and provides direction on material pricing & costing, supplier performance, site localization strategies, demand/supply support for customers, supply chain flexibility initiatives and overall supply chain continuous improvement.
Provides leadership oversight for all SCM related matters for customer(s).