Contract Manufacturing Quote Specialist

Celestica; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 89,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global company is seeking a Pricing Support Specialist in Toronto. This hybrid role involves providing cost and pricing support for new products, coordinating with various functional teams, and analyzing large sets of data. Candidates should have strong communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, along with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Typical experience is three to six years in a relevant field. The position offers a salary range of CAD 89,355 to 124,779 per year.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Short-Term Incentive (STI) compensation

Qualifications

• Three to six years of relevant experience is typical.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while working under tight deadlines.
• Basic understanding of internal and external customer needs is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide costing and pricing support for new products.
• Coordinate functional teams for project improvements.
• Analyze data to generate P&Ls and secure sign-offs.

Skills

Strong communication

Negotiation skills

Presentation skills

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Spreadsheet macros

Understanding political structure

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Req ID: 132191
Remote Position: Hybrid
Region: Americas
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto

Overview

Provide product cost and pricing support for production products that are new to a site or region. Incumbents apply in-depth knowledge in a specific area of specialization. Work is performed within established professional standards and practices. Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors and a considerable degree of judgement. Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results may have a negative impact on the divisions/departments operations, schedules, and/or performance goals. Works under minimum supervision. Seeks approval from others on matters outside of job/role scope. Receives instruction on specific assignment objectives and possible solutions. Unusual problems are solved jointly with manager. Work is reviewed for application of sound technical judgment. Will lead a work group or project team consisting of technical and support staff as required. Builds internal and external relationships as appropriate, with emphasis on those that facilitate the achievement of job/role accountabilities, such as relationships with key suppliers, customers and internal service. Implements process improvements. Presents complex information integrating several scenarios. Becomes a key advisor and is able to assist clients/users on vastly different issues. Ability to run a successful meeting with multiple people (i.e., agenda, timetable, demonstrate good time management, conclusion, follow-up and minutes). Meets group needs, ensures appropriate resources are available and works to achieve team goals over individual goals. Makes decisions based on analysis. Provides input to manage required changes. Leads by example and is accountable for their actions.

Responsibilities

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

Provides costing and pricing support for fully assembled products that are new to a site or geography for both new and existing customers. Key elements of the role include coordination of functional teams, evaluation of inputs from these functions, generation and understanding of P&Ls and obtaining full sign-offs; and project/process improvement (procedures, systems, tools, strategy, etc) support.

Knowledge / Skills / Competencies

• Basic understanding of internal and external customer needs is required to make effective/informed decisions.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Provide recommendations based on interpretation of results.
• Ability to design/create queries and understands what creates the output.
• Creates basic spreadsheet macros.
• Understanding of the relationships between the various tools.
• Understand how to use political structure in the organization and how to get things done using that structure.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc)
• Occasional overnight travel may be required

Experience & Education

Typical Experience: Three to six years of relevant experience

Typical Education: Bachelor's degree, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience. Education experience may vary by geography.

Salary

The stated range includes Base Salary and target Short-Term Incentive (STI) compensation only. A comprehensive benefits package is offered in addition to this range.

The range described in this posting is an estimate by the Company, and may change based on several factors, including but not limited to a change in the duties covered by the job posting, or the credentials, experience or geographic jurisdiction of the successful candidate.

Salary Range: $89,355-124,779 CAD/year

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.

EEO

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.

At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

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.

We use artificial intelligence tools to assist in screening and assessing applications for this role. All hiring decisions involve human review.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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.