Supply Chain Manager

Req ID: 114511
Remote Position: No
Region: Asia
Country: Thailand
State/Province: Chonburi
City: Laem Chabang

Celestica's *Global Supply Chain* operates as a unified virtual system with our customers and suppliers by acting as seamless extensions of their operations. We offer customized, flexible and integrated supply chain solutions, supported by a global technology platform and a dedicated, market-focused team.

We are currently seeking a *Supply Chain Manager* in our *Supply Management Team, *based out of *Laem Chabang, Thailand.*Responsibilities*:
• Maintains global and/or regional responsibility for a complex commodity or group of commodities for price/value determination, product and/or service negotiations, terms and conditions, supplier relationship development and performance.
• Develops and executes a procurement strategy for commodities or services including competitive benchmarking, technology direction, supplier analysis, development, selection and pricing strategy.
• Responsible for all product or service sourcing.
• Participates in the Commodity Council Corporate negotiation teams or individually.
• Participates in the Customer Materials Commitment process through collection of materials pricing and Customer BOM analysis.
• Acts as primary contact for site or customer support.
• Quotes and negotiates quarterly all products or major services either regionally or globally.
• Conducts customer bids within the response time objectives.
• Responsible for supplier performance reviews including performance reviews, business development and supplier awards programs.
• Has frequent interaction and negotiation with senior executives of industry leading multi-national companies.
• Provides support to their internal customers to resolve quality, serviceability and performance related issues.
• Identifies the supply vs.demand for all allocated products and communicate the proportioning of these items by geography and customer.
• Consolidates and escalates all critical shortages and resolves issues.
• Provides product cost support for products in assigned geographies.
• Prepares bids including generation of BOM, cost analysis, negotiate with suppliers, and present bids to management.
• Updates material prices database, analyze bill of materials for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management.
• Provides guidance to less experienced Commodity Management staff.
• Provides guidance to counterparts at the sites to ensure process compliance.
• Requirements*:
• Broad knowledge of the marketplace conditions for the area of specialization including industry pricing, technology and supply/demand trends.
• Working knowledge of Celestica's global supply chain including strategic policies and objectives.
• Knowledge of purchasing principles and procedures.
• Basic understanding of specific customer needs.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
• Experience*:
• 5+ years of experience in procurement.
• Education*:
• College or University degree in a related field, with a preference for technical.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).

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.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.