Req ID: 88571 
Region: Asia 
Country: China 
State/Province: Shanghai 
City:  Shanghai 

Mechanical Sourcing Engineer – GDS Shanghai

JOB DESCRIPTION

 

Strategic sourcing strategy

• Maintains global or regional responsibility for mechanical components or group of defined commodities, for price/value determination, product and/or service negotiations, terms and conditions.
• Develops and implements a procurement strategy for the commodities management including competitive, technology direction, supplier analysis, development and selection and pricing strategy.
• Acts as primary interface with Celestica’s suppliers for all relationship management, establishing business framework for transactions, performance reviews, business development and supplier awards programs.
• Performs bid activity and support cost analaysis during NPI stages. Sources all products and services, maintaining a continuity of supply, while delivering the lowest cost component or service solution.
• Has frequent interaction with new product design team
• May act as site liaison to manage critical shortage, develop strategies on constrained commodities and represent site, manage related systems changes that have broad effect on execution of purchasing responsibilities.
• Drives process improvement, leads development of IT tools for group, defines business processes and implements new tools/ processes.
• Can support quick turn and, prototype, NPI & batch production capabilities
• Collaborate & align selected PSL/s to Business’s expectations so as to support product development, where as necessary
• Develop suppliers for defined Direct commodities, include but not limited to
• May influence others outside of team to ensure goals are met and resolves conflicts in an effective manner.
• Seeks out new avenues for building internal and external relationships; maintains contacts with existing relationships.

 

Knowledge and Skills

• Expert on pricing structure, e.g. competitive tooling cost and unit price
• Understand the cost drivers for the RFQs and, or Technologies / Commodities
• Drive for the Terms & Conditions to maintain the best interest for Celestica
• Aware the importance of Time to Market
• Aware the key players & provide regular update to those related if any impact to the Supply in the Market
• Benefit & good to possess a technical working knowledge of:
• New Product Development cycles
• Types of Technologies & Commodities experience in Manufacturing
• Strong knowledge of basic computer applications and the ability to learn and use multiple applications specific to this department including ERP and office systems.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Strong knowledge of negotiation practices / methodology for commodities.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Frequent overnight travel may be required

Industry or Sector Experience

• Rich experience within the Manufacturing Industry. Essential to have EMS background so as can co-working with the site teams.
• The Candidate should have at least five years working experience, preferably in SCM / CM /Sourcing organizations, essential with sound Negotiation Skills and data analysis capabilities

 

Education

• Bachalor Degree or above in a Mechanical engineering  /  Commercial or related discipline

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).

At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

 

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.