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Job Summary
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth were looking to add an Advance Sourcing Analyst (Supply Chain Analyst) located in Hollis New Hampshire USA.
The potential candidate will report to the advance sourcing manager and be responsible for managing customer and supplier interactions regarding materials for key product development accounts for Flex Health Solutions. They will collaborate with the manager to create reports and conduct data analysis to aid in decisionmaking and problemsolving
What a typical day looks like:
- Drives sourcing/pricing strategies in materials quotations.
- Presents materials valueadd to customers or suppliers. Interfaces with customer or supplier in new project startup for cost of ownership issues.
- Develops and guides implementation of flexibility and supply assurance plans.
- Manages component cost/price on a local regional and global basis.
- Tracks materials financial performance and initiate corrective actions when required.
- Defines and implements pricing and costing strategies.
- Coordinate sourcing strategies with Supply Management and Customers.
- Develop and implement cost take down strategies.
- Increase Vendor Managed Inventory Reduced GuideTime and Electronic Data Interface penetration.
- Specialized Job controls may be required for certain positions. These could include on or more of the following duties:
Supply Management:
- Manage regional supplier contract negotiations which includes Memorandums of Comprehension Nondisclosure and regional pricing agreements.
- Develop and maintain supplier relationships and materials planning
- Measure and report Purchase Price Variance and initiate action plans.
- Monitor and manage supplier times.
- Mitigates shortages excess on order and excess on hand.
- Participate on and help global and regional commodity teams.
- Supplier onboarding activities Design Center ASL development/management
- Development of SOPs for supply chain and sourcingadjacent processes
- Contribute information/data on top spend suppliers for quarterly scorecards.
Customer Supply Chain Management:
- Manages material cost reviews.
- Drive initiatives to improve gross material margin.
- Identify implement and drive actions for Retained Purchase Price Variance (RPPV) optimization.
- Drive reconciliation process with customer (PPV Premium charges carrying costs freight charges excess and obsolete inventory Noncancelable NonReturnable (NCNR) etc.
- Identify opportunities to increase turnkey business and develop materials management plan.
- Coordinate quarterly/monthly PPV hard call process.
Advance Sourcing:
- Assist in generation of sourcing and supply chain risk mitigation strategies for products in development; collaborate directly with designers to build supplier requirements and liaise with sourcing teams to recommend supplier candidates
- Drive early supplier involvement for design
- Assist Advance Sourcing Manager and design team with alternative parts proposals by working with Global Procurement and Supply Chain (GPSC) resources
- Conduct RFQs for projects in design phase utilizing GPSC resources and expertise
- Contact suppliers directly with RFIs from designers and handle information flow in RFQ and postselection up to handover to production site
- Assist with supplier selection by using agreedupon criteria and building presentable material for decisionmaking (e.g. scorecards)
- Maintain a development CBOM with all pertinent supply chain info (MOQ lead times price breaks supplier control etc.
The experience were looking to add to our team:
- Typically requires a Bachelors degree or equivalent experience with a minimum of 5 years of experience in finance materials sourcing commodity management or supply chain design/management or other related area.
- Must have an understanding of cost accounting electronic component markets price trends and technologies.
- A background in electronics manufacturing and a thorough understanding of Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) product development process.
- Office Skills: telephones data entry office software to include word processing spreadsheets presentation packages and database systems.
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What youll receive for the great work you provide:
- Full range of medical dental and vision plans
- Life Insurance
- Shortterm and Longterm Disability
- Matching 401(k) Contributions
- Vacation and Paid Sick Time
- Tuition Reimbursement
Job Category
Global Procurement & Supply Chain
Is Sponsorship Available
No
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