Supply Chain Manager

Celestica (Chon Buri)

Chonburi, Thailand

Celestica 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, semiconductor capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. A leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. With talented teams across North America, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers. The Celestica Thailand facility has been established since 1995. Being Celestica’s biggest manufacturing site globally, we employ more than 5,000 employees. Our highly skilled teams produce high technology, high quality products for customers in the communications and enterprise market segments. With unrivalled expertise in high-mix low-volume manufacturing, direct fulfillment, reverse logistics and test development, we enable our customers to realize greater value, potential and outcomes.

About this position

This position will be the key corporate SCM interface for a significant customer at the Thailand site reporting through the global Strategic Supply Chain Management team.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities required:
• MVP: engagement with multiple customer contacts and presentations for identification & implementation of MVPs (Material Value Proposals) to help with supply optimization & RMS
• VMI/SMI: identifying new VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) opportunities and driving relevant stakeholders to implement
• Planning/Buying support: supporting site Buyers & Planners to ensure monthly tasks such as Price updates, Vendor Drive & load into MRP, and proper part allocations between suppliers (weekly/monthly files shared from customer)
• Escalation support: component shortage escalation support & to ensure purchasing optimization decisions are made accurately and timely
• Data validation/support: Lead time validation between monthly customer update files and CLS SAP/alignment, support our customer with daily/weekly system data-feed questions and upgrade initiatives
• Customer inquiries/general support: support customer inquiries related to the supply chain, cost questions, and prepare relevant supply chain content weekly and Quarterly Business Reviews
• SCM strategies: drive planning/commodity teams for ongoing improvement initiatives

Requirements

Key interfaces the leader will need to engage with include Customer SCM and IT teams, site SCM teams for planning/buying optimization, Site program office, Corp SCM team for pricing/costing updates, Commodity management/engineering teams for MVP opportunities, SLM (Supply Line Management) team for escalations, and IT cross-functional teams for data-feed issues/questions/improvements.