Assistant Manager – Supply Chain

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a Assistant Manager – Supply Chain in Chennai, India.

The Assistant Manager – Supply Chain should quickly and accurately process purchase orders in a fast-paced environment. Additionally, should have excellent stakeholders service skills and works well in a team to consistently meet challenging performance targets.

What a typical day looks like:

• Drives sourcing/pricing strategies in materials quotations. 
• Presents materials value add to customers or suppliers, and influence customer to use preferred suppliers. 

• Interfaces with customer or supplier in new project start-up, for cost of ownership issues. 
• Develops and guides implementation of flexibility and supply assurance plans. 
• Manages component cost/price on a local, regional and global basis. 
• Tracks materials financial performance and initiate corrective actions when required. 

• Defines and implements pricing and costing strategies. 
• Coordinate sourcing strategies with Supply Management and Customers. 
• Develop and implement cost take down strategies. 
• Increase Vendor Managed Inventory, Reduced Guide-Time and Electronic Data Interface penetration. 

Supply Management: 

• Manage regional supplier contract negotiations, which includes Memorandums of Comprehension, Non-disclosure and regional pricing agreements. 
• Develop and maintain supplier relationships. 

• Measure and report Purchase Price Variance and initiate action plans. 
• Monitor and manage supplier times. 
• Mitigates shortages, excess on order and excess on hand. 
• Participate on and help global and regional commodity teams. 
• Contribute information/data on top spend suppliers for quarterly scorecards. 

Customer Supply Chain Management: 

• Manages material cost reviews. 
• Drive initiatives to improve gross material margin. 
• Identify, implement and drive actions for Retained Purchase Price Variance (RPPV) optimization. 

• Drive reconciliation process with customer (PPV, Premium charges, carrying costs, freight charges, excess and obsolete inventory, Non-cancelable, Non-Returnable (NCNR), etc.) 
• Identify opportunities to increase turnkey business and develop materials management plan. 
• Coordinate quarterly/monthly PPV hard call process. 

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.  
• Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of experience in finance, materials sourcing, commodity management or supply chain design/management or other related area. 
• Must have an understanding of cost accounting, electronic component markets, price trends and technologies.  
• A background in electronics manufacturing and a thorough understanding of Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) product development process.  
• To perform the major job responsibilities the use of the following tools may be required: Office Skills: telephones, data entry, office software to include, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages, and database systems. 

What you will get for the great work you provide:

• Health Insurance
• PTO