Supply Chain Specialist

Flex; Santo Niño 1st; On-site; PHP 2,957,000 - 4,436,000; Full time

Job summary

Flex is seeking a Supply Chain Specialist in Singapore to drive sourcing and pricing strategies, manage supplier relationships, and optimize cost of ownership across regional and global operations.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and 5+ years in finance, materials sourcing, or supply chain design. Strong knowledge of cost accounting and electronics markets is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum 5 years in finance, materials sourcing, or supply chain design/management.
• Understanding of cost accounting, electronics markets, price trends and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Drives sourcing/pricing strategies in materials quotations.
• Interfaces with customers or suppliers for cost of ownership issues.
• Develops and guides supply flexibility and assurance plans.
• Manages regional and global supplier pricing and contracts.

Skills

Sourcing strategies

Pricing strategies

Supplier relationships

Cost accounting

OEM knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Office software

Job description

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add aSupply Chain Specialistto be inKallang, Singapore.

What a typical day looks like:

• Drives sourcing/pricing strategies in materials quotations.

• Presents materials value-add to customers or suppliers, and influences customers to use company preferred suppliers.

• Interfaces with customers or suppliers in new project start-up, for cost of ownership issues.

• Develops and guides the implementation of flexibility and supply assurance plans.

• Manages component cost/price on a local, regional, and global basis.

• Tracks material's financial performance and initiates corrective actions when required.

• Defines and implements pricing and costing strategies.

• Coordinate sourcing strategies with Supply Management and Customers.

• Develop and implement cost take-down strategies.

• Increase Vendor Managed Inventory, Reduced Guide-Time and Electronic Data Interface penetration.

Specialized Job controls may be required for certain positions. These could include one or more of the following duties:

Supply Management:

• Manage regional supplier contract negotiations, which includes Memorandums of Comprehension, Non-disclosure and regional pricing agreements.

• Develop and maintain supplier relationships.

• Measure and report Purchase Price Variance and initiate action plans.

• Monitor and manage supplier times.

• Mitigates shortages, excess on order and excess on hand.

• Participate on and help global and regional commodity teams.

• Contribute information/data on top spend suppliers for quarterly scorecards.

Customer Supply Chain Management:

• Manages material cost reviews. identify, implement and drive actions for Retained Purchase Price Variance (RPPV) optimization.

• Drive reconciliation process with customer (PPV, Premium charges, carrying costs, freight charges, excess and obsolete

• Identify opportunities to increase turnkey business and develop materials management plan.

• Coordinate quarterly/monthly PPV hard call process.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in finance, materials sourcing, commodity management or supply chain design/management or other related area.

• Must have an understanding of cost accounting, electronic component markets, price trends and technologies.

• A background in electronics manufacturing and a thorough understanding of Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) product development process.

• To perform the major job responsibilities the use of the following tools may be required: Office Skills: telephones, data entry, office software to include, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages, and database systems.