Advisor, Material Pricing

The Advisor, Material Pricing leads and leverages technology and analytics to drive material pricing projects, being exposed to a wide cross-section of business functions and customer teams while working on strategic business opportunities and improvements. This role supports precise cost estimating using historical data and part cost estimations, while updating material prices databases and analyzing Bill of Materials for competitiveness. They also negotiate with suppliers on RFI, RFQ, and RFP, and interact with global customer units and counterparts in other regions.

Detailed Description

The Advisor, Material Pricing performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following :

• Understand Celestica and Customer requirements and lead projects to ensure to meet Celestica / Customer goals
• Understand Cost And Pricing Data Requirements
• Collaborate closely with Commodity Management, Purchasing, Sourcing, Engineering teams, and Financial / Customer Focus Team
• Manages customer pricing proposals and maintains historical Database of quotes
• Supports precise cost estimating using historical data, as well as estimating costs of parts
• Coordinates and manages the material cost activity for select customers and / or sites
• Prepares material pricing independently for new business opportunities (bids) including generation of Bill of Material, cost analysis, negotiation with suppliers, collaboration with Commodity Management and presentation to team leaders and managers.
• Updates material prices database and analyzes Bill of Material for competitiveness.
• Negotiates with suppliers on RFI, RFQ and RFP.
• Participates in kick-off meetings and interacts with global customer's units as well as counterparts in other regions.
• Audits and analyzes quarterly cost variances. Consolidates, tabulates, analyzes and reports on various commitment and performance metrics

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Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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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.