Contract Administrator

Position Summary: The role of the Subcontractor Coordinator (SC) is to support strategies as the frontline actor managing the subcontracted vendor network. Develop meaningful and lasting relationships. Maintain clear communication between vendor and account management teams and coordinate contracting needs against demand. The SC will connect with product development processes, lead vendor-related communications, influence customer and organization directions, support costing negotiations, and ensure manufacturing facilities, processes, and systems are set up to successfully produce and ship final product. The SC will be responsible for identifying, developing and managing strategic opportunities with our subcontractors and relaying metrics on account performance to stakeholders. As the SC, you will get to work with all facets of production, quality, sales, warehouse and inventory (on site and Tegra coordination). Scope includes customer coordination, Tegra cross functional support and account management. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Vendor Coordination: Build and maintain strong, lasting customer relationships. Maintain understanding of current customer processes and be point person within Tegra for new ones being rolled out; ensuring Tegra internal teams are aligned and capable of supporting objectives (translator for customer). Ensure that the highest level of service is provided by all internal team members (customer service, development, planning, operations) to exceed customer’s expectations. Serve as the lead point of contact within Tegra on subcontracted vendor relationship matters. Coordinate with internal product development, planning, customer service, and operations teams to ensure clear understanding of customer needs, quality expectations, and required timelines. Work closely with customer calendars to measure and track on-time development goals to support customer commercialization to ensure successful production launch. Identify and develop strategic growth opportunities to build business within the vendor network. Track special projects and ensure any related costs are communicated to A/P department for invoice payment. Tegra Cross Functional Partner Support: Interface with Account Management, Business Development, Planning, and Operations to resolve customer order exceptions against vendor capabilities. Coordinate short and extended lead-time requests from customers to vendors for a variety of applications and order scenarios. Analyzes business processes and brings forth ideas for improvement with implementation suggestions and plans. Helps to plan, schedule, coordinate, and monitor programs through the complete production cycle. Management of master production and shipping requirement schedules. Plans for and owns integrated inventory picture - including pre-production and finished goods inventory. Exercises sound judgments on inventory decisions—specific to usage and influencing purchasing/hold levels. Help simplify and standardize complex programs for vendors by exhibiting resourceful problem-solving skills. Support costing and finance team on understanding any new program parameters or challenges. Ensure Tegra is paying appropriately and supporting the complexity of the order/request. Work closely with operations teams to communicate and resolve issues on process, quality, delivery, or shipping. Track performance metrics and present data/context to vendors and internal partners. Manage new vendor set-ups with finance, IT, planning and operations. Subcontractor Selection and Management (as needed): Maintain records on subcontracted partners and activities (i.e. operational capabilities, lead-times and minimum order quantities). Select and coordinate subcontracted partners using data driven and observational decision making. Ability to communicate with and serve as an "expert on call" and prime contact to management on matters relating to program coordination and scheduling activities. …

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