Specialist, Material Costing and Awards

Celestica Inc.; Kulim; On-site; MYR 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the supply chain solutions sector is seeking a Specialist, Material Costing and Awards. The role involves managing supplier negotiations, updating pricing databases, and developing commodity strategies. Candidates should have a background in commerce or engineering, with strong analytical and negotiation skills. This position offers an opportunity to work in a dynamic environment and contribute significantly to supplier management and cost strategies.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years of experience in purchasing, commodity or engineering environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Commerce or Engineering required.

Responsibilities

• Manages supplier RFQ process and leads component-level negotiations.
• Updates material prices database and analyzes components for competitiveness.
• Develops and executes commodity strategies to support overall program objectives.

Skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Problem resolution skills

Project management skills

Communication skills

Supplier relationship management

Technical drawing interpretation

Data analysis skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field (Commerce or Engineering)

Supply Chain Management designation

Tools

MS Office

Access

Job description

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Specialist, Material Costing and Awards

Date: Jul 9, 2025

Functional Area: Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Career Stream: Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Role: Specialist (SPE)
Job Title: Specialist, Material Costing and Awards
Job Code: SPC-SCM-MCA
Job Level: Level 08
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect

Summary

Detailed Description

• Manages supplier RFQ process for specific Commodity group(s) 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 – in depth knowledge of key commodity price drivers & sensitivities, performs general pricing & supply market trend analytics.
• Supplier expertise - understands key suppliers and develops 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 (Bid only)
• Provides insight and recommendations to support proposed solutions to key stakeholders.
• Updates material prices database, analyzes components for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management.
• Updates material prices database, analyzes components for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management
• Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills to enable ongoing incremental results
• Ability to proactively resolve issues & problems internally and externally
• 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 project manage, 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.
• 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.
  

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 (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required
• Overnight Travel : Occasional > 5% of the time
  

Typical Experience

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

Typical 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 – 6 years experience (aligned to position seniority) in purchasing, commodity or engineering environment
  

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.

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.