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Posted on: 13 Mar 2024
Job Location: Merrimack, US
Job Description:
Req ID: 117947
Remote Position: Yes
Region: Americas
Country: USA
General Overview
Functional Area: SCM - Supply Chain Management
Career Stream: SCM - Supply Chain Management
Role: Director 2
Job Title: SCM Director 2
Job Code: DR2-SCM
Band: Level 13
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect
Summary
Accountable for global sourcing strategies, strategic relationships with suppliers, and the implementation of strategies to drive leverage and purchasing power with the supply base, enabling profitability and growth for Celestica's global Hardware Platform Solutions business. Provides direct and indirect supervision to subordinate managers and employees within the organization performing highly specialized roles in several major functions or departments.
Responsibilities include long-term planning, policy formation, interpretation and management while providing latitude and discretion to subordinates. Work requires investigating and resolving a wide variety of highly unusual conditions that carry long-term implications. Requires developing new strategies, policies, practices, methods, programs or techniques and utilizing them to analyze and interpret difficult problems or situations and/or establishing new strategic direction that is site or multi-site specific. Participates with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives. Has overall responsibility for planning, budgeting, implementing and maintaining costs, methods and employees in a functional area. Makes final decisions on administrative and operational matters in area of responsibility to ensure achievement of objectives. Erroneous decisions will have a serious impact on the overall success of business unit operations. Directs and controls the activities of a broad functional area through several department managers. Assigns objectives, reviews performance and approves employee compensation, coaches for improved performance. Regularly interacts with executives and/or major suppliers and customers. Interactions normally involve controversial situations, supplier negotiations, or influencing and persuading other senior level managers. May represent the organization in public speaking venues and/or community events.
Detailed Description
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:
Leads the development and execution of supplier sourcing strategies, across a key subset of critical strategic suppliers and commodities, to support Celestica's Hardware Platform Solutions business.
Develops supplier relationship maps, supplier profiles and supplier action plans.
Leads the Celestica engagement, for key suppliers, across multiple organizations and through multiple levels of the supply chain, design and business organizations.
Provides direction to key supplier selection and management activities, including competitive benchmarking, technology reviews, supplier analysis, supplier development, supplier performance management and negotiation strategies.
Provides leadership for a group of managers who have worldwide responsibility for complex group of components or services.
Drives the development and implementation of commodity management and procurement policies and procedures to ensure support for Celestica's global design teams, and Hardware Platform Solutions business and customers
Has frequent interaction with, and builds senior executive level relationships with key suppliers supporting our Hardware Solutions Business
Ensures Celestica's design organization receives a high level of support from critical ecosystem suppliers, including on-site technical support, early technology access, technology roadmap reviews, etc.
Organizes supplier conferences and events to drive support for Celestica's Hardware Platform Solutions business.
Negotiates strategic pricing deals with key suppliers
Drives supply base support and pricing to enable successful closure of major business opportunities
Establishes corporate target and provides direction to managers in areas of global pricing, terms and conditions, supplier programs and monitoring of supplier performance.
Provides targets and direction in worldwide product sourcing process.
Knowledge/Skills/Competencies
Expert knowledge of the marketplace conditions for a broad range of strategic commodities in industry pricing, technology, supply/demand and emerging trends.
Expert knowledge of Celestica's global supply chain including strategic policies and objectives.
Excellent understanding of global business environment and Customers business, organization, products and processes.
Strong knowledge of engineering concepts and financial analysis.
Ability to lead complex negotiations effectively.
Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers and suppliers
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 managers and employees
Physical Demands
Duties of this position 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, etc.) are frequently required.
Frequent overnight travel is required.
Typical Experience
Typical Education
Bachelor's degree in related field (Commerce, Engineering or Economics, MBA), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Educational requirements may vary by geography
Notes
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.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Celestica's policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.
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.
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.
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
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.
Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
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