Specialist, Material Pricing

Celestica's Global Supply Chain operates as a unified virtual system with our customers and suppliers by acting as seamless extensions of their operations. We offer customized, flexible and integrated supply chain solutions, supported by a global technology platform and a dedicated, market-focused team.

We are currently seeking a Specialist, Material Pricing (HealthTech) based in Oradea. 

Responsibilities: 

• Manage material pricing for global customers for the Health Tech market segment.  
• Accountable for delivering competitive material pricing solutions to support growth and margins as per company objectives.
• Typically manages multiple projects across 10+ support employees per project.
• Collaborate with global customer unit, customer, program management, business proposal lead, finance and/or sales to determine material pricing strategy. (Awareness)
• Align on trade-offs between proposal cycle-time, solution precision and scope with clients to deliver agreed to pricing strategy. (Awareness)
• Project manage supply chain solution with commodity management, costing teams, engineering teams to deliver desired pricing and margin solutions. (Proficient)
• Prepares material pricing solutions for new business opportunities (bids) and manage ongoing pricing through the lifecycle of the product (re-pricing) including generation of Bill of Material, cost-competitive analysis, margin recommendations.  (Proficient)
• Provide insight and recommendations to support external (customers or suppliers) negotiations.   (Intermediate)
• Presents proposed solution to key stakeholders.  (Awareness)   
• Perform take-down trends analysis and modeling to leverage insight in service requests.  (Intermediate)  
• Conduct market research and generate product teardowns to enable competitiveness assessments in service request. (Awareness)
• Provide supply chain internal or external consulting / solutioning. (Awareness)
• Provide value engineer proposals (Awareness)
• Develop annual material margin build-up plan, obtain alignment with key stakeholders and proactively project manager during the year. (Awareness)
• Consolidates, tabulates, analyzes and reports on various commitment and performance metrics as per reporting schedule.  (Intermediate)
• Proactively drive continuous improvement in margin expansion, cycle-time, pricing competitiveness, pricing tactics and process efficiency. (Intermediate)

Requirements: 

• Ability to proactively identify & resolve issues internally and externally.
• Ability to effectively project manage, influence and motivate a diverse group of team members, potentially based in multiple countries.
• Ability to multi-task and manage time effectively
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Ability to work assertively cross-functionally and with other sites to achieve objectives.
• Demonstrate strong systems skills, including common office platforms such as MS Office (proficiency in Excel) and Celestica-specific tools such as Quote App, Scavenger.
• Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze costing and pricing data.
• Effective electronics and/or build to print costing/pricing experience including industry pricing, technology and market trends.
• Technically inclined including the ability to read and interpret basic technical drawings.
• Demonstrate good negotiation, presentation, client management and influence skills.
• Understand how an EMS supply chain works and key commodity cost drivers.

Experience:

• Two to four years relevant experience in supply chain.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (preferably Mechanical/Electromechanical Engineering or Business), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience