- Location
- Penang Prai, Malaysia
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Operations
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Workday
Description
Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world.
A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.
Job Summary
In charge of customer interface on strategic materials for key assigned accounts. Hold up material manager or director to develop, implement GPSC reports, data research trends to facilitate resolutions making.
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.
Specialized Job controls may be required for certain positions. These could include on or more of the following duties:
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 5 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’ll receive for the great work you provide:
Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off
Allowances & Bonuses
NB09
AA98
Job Category
Global Procurement & Supply ChainRequired Skills:
Optional Skills:
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