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Job Overview
Establishes, monitors, and optimizes short-term and long-term procurement strategies and aligns them with business goals.
Job Responsibilities
- Develop Optical commodity strategies aligned with business objectives.
- Monitor global market trends, supply-demand dynamics, and geopolitical factors.
- Mitigate risks related to commodity price fluctuations.
- Identify and develop new suppliers in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Optimize the supplier base to enhance efficiency and quality.
- Conduct RFQs for NPI (New Product Introduction) projects.
- Drive cost reduction initiatives through comprehensive cost analysis, market data evaluation, and negotiation.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to lead Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) projects.
- Coordinate cross-functional efforts to achieve project KPIs including savings, lead time reduction, minimum order quantity optimization, dual sourcing, and localization.
- Lead quarterly supplier scorecard reviews to improve supplier performance in quality, delivery, and cost.
- Identify risks, opportunities, and underperforming suppliers; implement corrective actions to mitigate risks and ensure continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with plant teams as necessary.
- Addressing Business Growth and Market Demands
- Improving Procurement Efficiency and Reducing Costs
- Accelerating Decision-Making and Market Adaptability
- Strengthening Supplier Management / Long-Term Partnerships/ supplier strategy
- This position will strengthen strategic partnerships with key suppliers with multi skills
- Supporting Successful NPI Project Execution.
- Enhancing Localization and Global Expansion
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or above in a relevant field
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- 10 years of experience working in a global/region commodity role in a multinational company.
- 5 years of people management experience
- 5 years of Optical related
- Engineering background is advantageous.
- Proven ability to lead projects, coordinate, problem-solve, and make decisive decisions to achieve results
- Proactive and detail-oriented
- Strong analytical and cross-functional skills
- Ability to understand global markets, collaborate effectively with global teams, and experience in working with suppliers in the Asia-Pacific region and Global
- Understanding of optical transceivers, optical components, CPO, optics passive fiber connectivity, Silicon photonics, Lasers (EML, Vcsel etc) and fiber interfaces optical transmission, optical jumpers, components used in AI/accelerated computing interconnects.
- Solid understanding of high speed optical transceiver architecture: optics chain, fiber interfaces and optical budgets.
- Knowledge of optical devices and materials:
- Understanding of the manufacturing flow: and key yield, capacity, and lead time drivers.
- Basic familiarity how these influence component selection and cost.
Competencies
SET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)
