Direct Materials Buyer — Drive Production & Supplier Partnerships

Flextronics - The Flex Company; Benito Juárez; Híbrido; MXN 900.000 - 1.100.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Flextronics - The Flex Company in Juarez, NL, is seeking a Sr. Supply Chain Optimization Specialist in a hybrid role.

You will identify inventory risks, determine causes, and drive corrective actions to reduce excess, obsolete, and overproduction inventory across Finished Goods, Raw Materials, WIP, and service inventories. You will partner with IT, Data Analytics, Master Data, and operations leaders to improve visibility, reliability of reports, and move from reactive reviews to proactive

Formación

• Hands-on analytics and process improvement expert using ERP research and Power BI dashboards.
• Develops exception reporting and standardized review routines to drive actions.

Responsabilidades

• Lead recurring root cause analysis for inventory increases, overstock, obsolete, and overproduction across Finished Goods, Raw Materials, WIP, and service inventory.
• Research inventory exceptions in ERP to determine drivers related to demand, supply, planning parameters, MOQ, lead time, forecast bias, material status, discontinuation, last‑time‑buy, production execution, or master data.
• Develop and improve Power BI dashboards, exception reports, and analytical tools that provide early visibility to inventory risk, including PO/PR exceptions, safety stock/time breaches, production overbuilds, blocked or restricted stock, disposition balances, and month‑over‑month changes.
• Partner with IT, Data Analytics, Master Data, and business process owners to improve report reliability, automate recurring analysis, and reduce manual Excel dependency where practical.
• Identify purchase requisitions, purchase orders, production activity, and material receipts that may create inventory above target levels; coordinate with schedulers, buyers, supply planning, customer service, manufacturing, and operations leaders to review, cancel, defer, or correct orders when appropriate.
• Build structured RCA categories and Pareto reporting to quantify major inventory drivers, financial impact, accountable functions, and recurring patterns.
• Translate analytics into clear business actions with owners, due dates, assumptions

Conocimientos

Power BI dashboards

Root cause analysis

Inventory optimization

Data analytics

ERP research

Exception reporting

Descripción del empleo

Sr. Supply Chain Optimization Specialist

Sr. Supply Chain Optimization Specialist
Location: Juarez, NL. / Hybrid
BASIC FUNCTION
The Sr Specialist, Inventory Optimization & Supply Chain Analytics is responsible for identifying inventory risks, determining root causes, and driving corrective actions that reduce excess, obsolete, overstock, and overproduction inventory across Kitchen and Bath Americas. Reporting to the Sr Supply Chain Analytics Manager, this role partners with Production Control, Supply Planning, Demand Planning, Finance, Manufacturing Operations, Master Data, IT/Data Analytics, and Supply Chain leadership to improve inventory visibility and governance. The position serves as a hands‑on analytics and process improvement expert, using ERP research, Power BI dashboards, exception reporting, and standardized review routines to convert complex inventory signals into clear business actions. The role is expected to work independently, communicate findings clearly, and support the organization in moving from reactive inventory review to proactive prevention.

• Lead recurring root cause analysis for inventory increases, overstock, excess, obsolete, and overproduction across Finished Goods, Raw Materials, WIP, and service‑related inventory.
• Research inventory exceptions in ERP and supporting tools to determine whether drivers relate to demand, supply, planning parameters, MOQ, lead time, forecast bias, material status, discontinuation, last‑time‑buy, production execution, or master data.
• Develop and improve Power BI dashboards, exception reports, and analytical tools that provide early visibility to inventory risk, including PO/PR exceptions, safety stock/time breaches, production overbuilds, blocked or restricted stock, disposition balances, and month‑over‑month changes.
• Partner with IT, Data Analytics, Master Data, and business process owners to improve report reliability, automate recurring analysis, and reduce manual Excel dependency where practical.
• Identify purchase requisitions, purchase orders, production activity, and material receipts that may create inventory above target levels; coordinate with schedulers, buyers, supply planning, customer service, manufacturing, and operations leaders to review, cancel, defer, or correct orders when appropriate.
• Build structured RCA categories and Pareto reporting to quantify major inventory drivers, financial impact, accountable functions, and recurring patterns.
• Translate analytics into clear business actions with owners, due dates, assumptions