08 - Specialist, Material Costing and Awards
CelesticaReq ID: 141526
Remote Position: No
Region: Americas
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto
General Overview Functional Area: Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Career Stream: Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Role: Specialist (SPE)
Job Title: Specialist, Material Costing and Awards
Job Code: SPC-SCM-MCA
Summary The Specialist, Material Costing and Awards receive, process, negotiat
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e & submit material cost solutions for new business opportunities (bids & awards) & manage appropriate validation of customer re-pricing.
Detailed Description
Manages supplier RFQ process for specific Commodity group(s) across multiple projects to ensure all costing due dates are achieved.
Lead component level supplier negotiations to establish competitive cost solutions.
Drive supplier growth scorecard performance improvement.
Commodity expertise – in depth knowledge of key commodity price drivers & sensitivities, performs general pricing & supply market trend analytics.
Supplier expertise - understands key suppliers and develops effective supplier relationships
Develop & execute commodity strategy including competitive benchmarking, delivering a commodity strategy enabling the overall program strategy, supplier analysis, development & selection.
Able to identify and justify alternate component solutions.
Able to provide competitive cost estimate for complex parts (Bid only)
Provides insight and recommendations to support proposed solutions to key stakeholders.
Updates material prices database, analyzes components for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management.
Drives continuous improvement initiatives
Updates material prices database, analyzes components for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management
Drives continuous improvement initiatives
Knowledge/Skills/Competencies
Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills to enable ongoing incremental results
Ability to proactively resolve issues & problems internally and externally
Relentless focus on continuous improvement
Delivers flawless execution with an effective management system
Significant skills required in multi-tasking and time management
Ability to effectively project manage, influence and motivate a diverse group of team members, potentially based in multiple countries
Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers
Excellent negotiation skills.
Able to work assertively cross-functionally and with other sites to achieve objectives
Supply Chain experience - Commercial aptitude & awareness at component, commodity level or industry level.
Able to compare products and identify feature and technical differences.
Read and can understand technical drawings
Supplier Knowledge - Preferred Supplier Listings / Associated alternatives / Component Part Numbering / Franchised Distribution
Strong technical experience with associated commodity
Strong systems skills, including common office platforms such as MS Office and Access.
Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.
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
Overnight Travel : Occasional > 5% of the time
Typical Experience
3 – 6 years experience (aligned to position seniority) in purchasing, commodity or engineering environment
Typical Education
Bachelor’s degree in related field (Commerce or Engineering), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Supply Chain Management designation would be an asset
Business or Engineering related degree, 3 – 6 years experience (aligned to position seniority) in purchasing, commodity or engineering environment
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