Job Description
Job Description
Description :
- Develop a nuanced understanding of the commodity landscape to forecast industry trends and gauge emerging competitive forces.
- Identify changes in buyer and supplier power and use industry dynamics to the company’s advantage.
- Perform supplier financial research, spend analysis, and ad-hoc financial analysis for strategic procurement deals.
- Effectively work with suppliers to negotiate optimal terms for sourcing. Understand the trade-offs between cost, volume, and quality to strike agreements that meet the performance criteria and secure long-term supply continuity.
- Collaborate across the organization to ensure business objectives are met. Includes the ability to rapidly synthesize and communicate findings to senior leaders and to actively identify potential supply issues that can affect product strategy.
- Optimize supply chain performance through cost and capacity scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
- Develop an in-depth understanding of value-added manufacturing processes and costs and market intelligence and apply this knowledge to influence future product roadmap and sourcing decisions.
- Provide overall program management support and contribute to the ongoing development of processes, templates, escalation procedures, and reporting.
Key Qualifications :
- A tenacity, passion, and demonstrated skill in negotiations.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Superb communication and interpersonal skills
- Can build, grow, and develop key cross-functional relationships to be able to influence and drive projects.
- Ability to operate independently.
- Interest in technology
- Ability to make quick decisions and solve complex problems with 80% information.
- Experience in supplier management and operations and the ability to solve complex supply chain issues are a plus.
- End-to-end ownership of contract negotiations for both commercial and legal aspects is a plus.
- Direct experience in long-term capacity planning a plus
Education &Experience :
- BA / BS degree and 8+ years of work experience
- Masters degree or MBA preferred
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