NPITPI Buyer

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Job Summary

Summary:

The NPI/TPI Buyer will be based in . reporting to

This role will be coordination and implementation of ECO changes new products or end-of-life products in accordance with Customer specific requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring availability of parts for new products according to the required quality delivery and cost.
• Scouting and supplier selection in line with divisional and local goals and policies.
• Achieving continuous improvement in quality delivery and costs of all purchased components and sub-assemblies.
• Helping value engineering exercises to improve the value/cost ratios of all parts.
• Manage supplier relations.
• Arrange correct documentation to ensure release of new product at each relevant milestone of the new product project.
• Send out initial orders and requests for quotations (RFQ).
• Maintenance the purchase price in the system and work off price differences in Baan.
• Adjusting in time the correct purchase price in the system and keep traceability upon.
• Be a permanent member of the Project team and assure hold up for the Procurement if needed.
• Evaluate supplier quotations and make agreements on pricing delivery quality capacities etc.
• Organize and monitor initial samples.
• Monitor and help the start-up phase of each new component or sub-assembly.
• Help and follow up production corrective actions.
• In case of quality problems negotiation with the competent manager or department.
• Initiate required design modifications towards the Suppliers.
• Monitor the supply market in terms of technologies and costs.
• Keep connection with Suppliers.
• Continuously improve the quality integral cost and delivery of all parts.
• Manage EOL parts with buyers.
• Looking for cost reduction possibilities improve PPV.
• In charge of efficient communication flow about progress of every NPI/TPI/EOL/ECO related project within SC CFT and with Customer (including Customer/Supplier visits/meetings and calls).
• Coordination and implementation of ECO changes within SC in accordance to Customer specific requirements with strong focus on ECO related cost collection and reporting.
• Coordination transfers of new products in accordance with Customer specific requirements.
• Coordinating end-of-life process in accordance with Customer specific requirements (including minimizing obsolete revaluation).
• Coordinating verification of new MPN/Supplier on production (First Article Inspection - FAI procedure).
• In charge of/Co-ordination of preparing material RFQ as applicable (Request for quotation for new Bill Of Material and for all new Engineering Change Order /ECO) reviews and analyses new offers from suppliers.
• Controlling AMLs and maintaining T&C for new items (collecting and maintaining data solving discrepancies with Customer requests for deviations to Customer etc.).
• Purchasing material status for prototypes/pilots.
• Managing changes in deliveries status according to accord rescheduling rules with Customer and negotiating minimized impact for Flex excess.
• Solving all material discrepancies related to parts delivered for prototypes/pilots with Customer.
• Should be able to read technical documentation (including 3D specifications).
• Should have sufficient knowledge about preferred suppliers in relevant commodities.
• NPI - New Product Introduction (Flex site is the receiving site and the product has not been manufactured elsewhere in volume yet).
• TPI - Transfer Product Introduction (Flex Site is either the receiving or transfer out site; and the product has been manufactured in Volume).
• Monitoring of system accuracy in daily/weekly bases /General Item data/Item supplier information Business Partner data Data integrity Data validation System set up.
  

Qualifications:

• Typically requires a Bachelor degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires a minimum of 3 years of experience in materials or related field.
• A background in electronics manufacturing is desired.

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