Analyst, Material Costing and Awards

Celestica Inc.; George Town; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica Inc. in Penang seeks an Analyst, Material Costing and Awards to receive, process, negotiate and submit material cost solutions for new business opportunities, including bid to bid and bid to buy, and to validate customer re-pricing.

The role requires 3–6 years in purchasing or similar, strong analytical and negotiation skills, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to drive cost improvements across multiple projects.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years experience in purchasing, supply chain, commodity or engineering environment.
• Overnight Travel: Occasional >5% of the time

Responsibilities

• Manage supplier RFQ process for specific commodity groups across projects to meet costing due dates.
• Lead component-level supplier negotiations to secure cost solutions.
• Drive supplier performance improvements via cost metrics and scorecards.
• Provide commodity strategy including benchmarking, analysis and supplier selection.
• Identify and justify alternate component solutions.
• Provide competitive cost estimates for complex parts.
• Communicate insights and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Review material cost and competitiveness with management.

Skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Problem solving

Cross-functional alignment

Continuous improvement

Time management

Effective communication

Data analysis

Cross-country coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or Engineering

Supply Chain designation (asset)

Tools

MS Office

MS Access

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Analyst, Material Costing and Awards

Date: Sep 3, 2026

Location: Penang, 07, MY

Our Global Supply Chain operates as a unified virtual system with our customers and suppliers by acting as seamless extensions of their operations. We offer customized, flexible and integrated supply chain solutions, supported by a global technology platform and a dedicated, market-focused team.

Job Overview

Receive, process, negotiate & submit material cost solutions for new business opportunities (bid to bid & bid to buy) as well as manage appropriate validation of customer re-pricing

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Manages supplier RFQ process for specific Commodity groups (Mechanical - Metal and Plastic parts) across multiple projects to ensure all costing due dates are achieved.
• Lead component level supplier negotiations to establish competitive cost solutions.
• Drive supplier growth scorecard performance improvement.
• Commodity expertise – depth knowledge of key commodity cost drivers & sensitivities, performs general pricing & supply market trend analytics.
• Supplier expertise - understands capabilities of key suppliers and develop effective supplier relationships
• Develop & execute commodity strategy including competitive benchmarking, delivering a commodity strategy enabling the overall program strategy, supplier analysis, development & selection.
• Able to identify and justify alternate component solutions.
• Able to provide competitive cost estimate for complex parts.
• Provides insight and recommendations to support proposed solutions to key stakeholders.
• Updates material cost, analyzes components for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management.

Experience:

• 3 – 6 years experience (aligned to position seniority) in purchasing, supply chain, commodity or engineering environment

General Skills, Knowledge, and Competencies :

• Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem solving skills to enable ongoing incremental results
• Ability to proactively aligned cross-functional departments and vendors to overcome roadblocks and accelerate project delivery
• Relentless focus on continuous improvement
• Delivers flawless execution with an effective management system
• Significant skills required in multi-tasking and time management
• Ability to effectively influence and motivate a diverse group of team members, potentially based in multiple countries
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers
• Able to work assertively cross-functionally and with other sites to achieve objectives
• Supply Chain experience - Commercial aptitude & awareness at component, commodity level or industry level.
• Able to compare products and identify feature and technical differences.
• Able to read and can understand technical drawings
• Supplier Knowledge - Preferred Supplier Listings / Associated alternatives / Component Part Numbering / Franchised Distribution
• Strong technical experience with associated commodity
• Strong systems skills, including common office platforms such as MS Office and Access.
• Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (Commerce or Engineering), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Supply Chain Management designation would be an asset
• Business or Engineering related degree, 3 – 10 years experience (aligned to position seniority) in purchasing, commodity or engineering environment
• Overnight Travel: Occasional > 5% of the time

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).
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.

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.

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