Materials Program Management

Celestica; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica, a global supply chain leader, seeks a senior SCM professional in Plano, TX to manage production planning, supplier coordination, and customer relationships.

You will analyze costs, coordinate materials, support new product introductions, and drive process improvements across the value chain. Candidates should have 3–6 years of experience and a Bachelor's degree, with strong data, negotiation, and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three to six years of relevant experience.
• Experience in supply chain and customer/ supplier interactions.
• Strong ability to analyze data and derive actionable insights.
• Proven ability to communicate SCM activities to customers and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Interface with Business Office, Production, Procurement, Planning and customers to align production/shipments plans.
• Identify and design business process enhancements.
• Participate in Master Planning review and procurement actions from MRP.
• Coordinate with planning on customer requirements, changes, costs and feasibility.
• Support new product introduction.
• Negotiate terms with customers on schedules, costs and Engineering Change implementations.
• Provide customer with technology information, supplier capabilities, and market trends.
• Review contracts to assess SCM's ability to meet requirements.
• Manage customer relationships from SCM perspective.
• Obtain and disseminate customer SCM feedback to team.
• Champion improvements and communicate action plans.

Skills

Global supply chain

Customer understanding

Cost structures

Data systems use

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Analytics & prioritization

Cross-functional teamwork

Networking

Proactive mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Job description

Req ID: 140960

Region: Americas

Country: USA

State/Province: Texas

City: Plano

Summary

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. May lead a work group or project team consisting of technical and support staff. Builds internal and external relationships, with emphasis on those that facilitate the achievement of job/role accountabilities, such as relationships with key suppliers, customers and internal service.

Detailed Description

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

• Interfaces with Business Office, Production, Procurement, Planning and customers to compile, develop, validate, and communicate production/shipments plans that support overall business goals.

• Identifies business process enhancements and participates in their design and implementation.

• Participates in Master Planning review and procurement actions from MRP process.

• Coordinates with planning on customer requirements, changes, in order to assess costs and actual feasibility.

• Supports new product introduction.

• In coordination with Business Office, negotiates with customer on behalf of SCM on any materials management related activity such as schedules, costs and Engineering Change implementation.

• Provides customer with technology information, supplier capabilities, and market trends to compliment SCM activities.

• Reviews all terms and conditions agreed to in the Celestica/Customer contract to assess SCM's ability to meet these requirements.

• Partners with Business Office in negotiating Terms and Conditions in relation to SCM activities with customer.

• Identify Celestica's SCM new product process requirements to the customer, and ensure all information is received and SCM processes initiated effectively.

• Coordinates Bill of Material analysis.

• Reviews content, lead time constraints, critical parts supply and component reliability issues.

• Ensures alternate source capability to maintain supply continuity and verify that customer costs can be supported.

• Materials bid management.

• Reviews and submits all customer material bid requests.

• Resolves any issues with customer, internal team.

• Manages customer relationship from Supply Chain perspective.

• Obtains and disseminates customer SCM feedback to team.

• Champions improvements and communicates action plans.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• In-depth understanding of all aspects of the global supply chain, Celestica's strategic policies and objectives, and its

• suppliers and customers.

• Good understanding of specific customers' business, organization, products and processes.

• Fundamentals of financial product cost structures and asset management techniques.

• Extensive ability to utilize computer systems and applications in order to gather require information, and compile information into a customer presentable format.

• Good formal presentation skills.

• Ability to effectively communicate all SCM related activities in an appropriate manner to the customer and internal team.

• Applies analysis and judgement to assess performance against key measures and determine priorities.

• Demonstrated ability to interface cross functionally in order to gather required customer information.

• Develops wide personal network of contacts, internally, and where appropriate externally.

• Adopts a proactive approach to running their part of the business.

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.

Typical Experience

• Three to six years of relevant experience

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

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 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.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Celestica is an E-Verify employer.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica, Inc. (NYSE: CLS; TSX: CLS) is a technology leader dedicated to driving customer success and market advancements. With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. With a talented team and a strategic global network, Celestica helps its customers achieve competitive advantages.

Today, Celestica delivers innovative supply chain solutions globally to customers in strategic two operating and reporting segments: Advanced Technology Solutions (ATS) and Connectivity and Cloud Solutions (CC):

ATS:

This segment serves customers in complex, regulated and high-reliability markets such as Industrial & Smart Energy, Aerospace & Defense, Semiconductor Capital Equipment, and HealthTech. It is engineering led, with deep expertise in design, manufacturing and lifecycle solutions.

CCS:

This segment focuses on high-performance technology solutions and services for the data center, serving hyperscalers, digital native customers and enterprises. Celestica's Platform Solutions offering provides innovative and customizable computing, storage and networking solutions enabling AI-driven growth.