Material Costing Engineer

Advisor, Material Costing And Award

Functional Area : Supply Chain Management (SCM) Career Stream : Supply Chain Management (SCM) Role : Advisor (ADV) Job Title : Advisor, Material Costing and Award Job Code : ADV-SCM-MCA Job Level : Level 09 Direct / Indirect Indicator : Indirect

Summary

The Advisor, Materials Costing And Awards applies expertise for specific Commodity Category(s). Incumbents may lead a work group and / or provide advice and guidance in their area of specialty. They manage supplier quote process & work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors. As an advisor, they are accountable for the quality of work delivered by external suppliers as applicable. Decision-making authority and autonomy is given to deliver on goals of the team. Advisors interface with senior managers on issues related to the area of expertise. There is a possibility that they may determine new methods and procedures.

Detailed Description

• Manages supplier RFQ process for specific Commodity group(s) across multiple projects to ensure all costing due dates are achieved.
• Lead component level supplier negotiations to establish competitive cost solutions.
• Drive supplier growth scorecard performance improvement.
• Commodity expertise depth knowledge of key commodity price drivers & sensitivities, performs general pricing & supply market trend analytics.
• Supplier expertise - understands key suppliers and develops effective supplier relationships.
• Develop & execute commodity strategy including competitive benchmarking, delivering a commodity strategy enabling the overall program strategy, supplier analysis, development & selection.
• Able to identify and justify alternate component solutions.
• Able to provide competitive cost estimate for complex parts (Bid only)
• Provides insight and recommendations to support proposed solutions to key stakeholders.
• Updates material prices database, analyzes components for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provides supervision to semi-skilled and entry level professional employees.
• Coaches for improved performance and disciplines as necessary.
• Act as primary contact for site or customer support.
• Ability to build drawing packages required for quoting.
• Generate material cost BOM used for bidding and presentation to management.
• Lead projects related to cost down opportunities and track cost savings.
• Provide supplier training on internal and customer specifications.
• Communicate overall status according to an agreed schedule to all stakeholders.

Knowledge / Skills / Competencies

Physical Demands

Typical Experience

Typical Education

Bachelor's degree in related field (Engineering), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Location : This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

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.