11 - Supply Chain Manager 3

Req ID: 123217
Remote Position: Hybrid
Region: Americas
Country: Mexico
State/Province: Nuevo Leon
City: Monterrey

**General Overview**:
**Functional Area**: SCM - Supply Chain Management
**Career Stream**: SCM - Supply Chain Management
**Role**: Manager 3
**Job Title**: Supply Chain Manager 3
**Job Code**: MG3-SCM
**Band**: Level 11
**Direct/Indirect Indicator**: Indirect

**Summary**:
**Detailed Description**:
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

- Provides support to the team on management of materials availability to support build plans throughout the product life cycle for a specific business unit or customer set.
- Provides leadership in designing the supplier portion of the materials supply chain to provide optimum flexibility with minimum investment.
- Supports the effort to identify and develop suppliers to meet current and future business needs.
- Supports efforts to reduce material cost and assess/respond to supply risks.
- Supports contracts and agreements for supplier chain related sections.
- Supports the development of delivery requirements, material plans and short-range capacity plans to meet production schedules and inventory objectives.
- Responsible for customer interface from SCM including relationship management and as focal point for all SCM related issues.
- Responsible for tracking and driving inventory results by working with SCM Managers, Directors & GMs and customer VP/GMs.
- Participates in business process improvements to help achieve inventory targets and maximize return on investment. Works to ensure Celestica is compliant with customs and regulatory laws.
- Supports freight & logistics optimization efforts for ensuring favorable rates and cycle times for Celestica and customers.
- Establishes department goals/ measurements and manages resources to achieve these goals.
- Drives working capital assumptions in the quote process, and later leads SCM optimization efforts to achieve or exceed quoted turns and plan.
- Supports new business quotes and ramp for new products as the key corporate stakeholder for the supply chain.
- Primary customer interface focal point for SCM requirements and solutions, deployment of systems and processes ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Collaborates with Customers on SCM strategies and requirements.
- Drives customer engagement on demand planning, demand management & collaboration while improving the process.
- Has the ownership of the SCM portion for the customer QBRs, Escalations and driving KPI improvement initiatives.
- Leads market teams to optimize working capital performance.
- Ensures contractual claims for SCM related costs are recovered (e.g. E&O, premium, NRE).
- Leads & helps prepare responses on all SCM customer enquiries.
- Coordinates supplier localization projects for customers within Celestica.
- Provides direction and support to site teams on SIOP, GAP inventory reviews and Strategic inventory proposals to customers.
- Drives supply chain improvement initiatives with sites to support customer and Celestica requirements.
- Provides coaching and support for various cross functional teams and provides direction on material pricing & costing, supplier performance, site localization strategies, demand/supply support for customers, supply chain flexibility initiatives and overall supply chain continuous improvement.
- Provides leadership oversight for all SCM related matters for customer(s).

**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:

- In-depth knowledge and understanding of global supply chain management, distribution methods, and global transportation services and inventory management.
- Broad knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes.
- Strong knowledge in all areas of import / export, regulatory and logistics management.
- Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Significant skills required in multi-tasking and time management.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
- Strong knowledge of the marketplace conditions for a broad range of strategic commodities in industry pricing, technology, supply/demand and emerging trends.
- Strong knowledge of Celestica’s global supply chain including strategic policies and objectives and how they fit in.
- Excellent understanding of the global business environment and Customers business, organization, products and processes.
- Ability to lead complex negotiations effectively.
- Ability to interface with many international sites to establish strong working relationships and cooperation.
- Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of employees

**Physical Demands**:

- Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
- Duties of this position require continuous light physical effort and exertion including prolonged repetitive motion, s