Senior Material Pricing Lead

Summary

This opportunity offers an ideal environment to learn and grow. In this role, you will build your experience by being exposed to a wide cross-section of business functions and customer teams while working on strategic business opportunities and improvements. 

The role offers an opportunity to become a leader in a global organization, leveraging technology and analytics to drive real value to both Celestica and our Customers. 

Detailed Description

The Material Pricing Advisor performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following: 

• Understand Celestica and Customer requirements and lead projects to ensure to meet Celestica/Customer goals. 
• Understand Cost and Pricing Data Requirements
• Collaborate closely with Commodity Management, Purchasing, Sourcing, Engineering teams, and Financial/Customer Focus Team.
• Manages customer pricing proposals and maintains historical Database of quotes
• Supports precise cost estimating using historical data, as well as estimating costs of parts
• Coordinates and manages the material cost activity for select customers and/or sites
• Prepares material pricing independently for new business opportunities (bids) including generation of Bill of Material, cost analysis, negotiation with suppliers, collaboration with Commodity Management and presentation to team leaders and managers. 
• Updates material prices database and analyzes Bill of Material for competitiveness
• Negotiates with suppliers on RFI, RFQ and RFP
• Participates in kick-off meetings and interacts with global customer's units as well as counterparts in other regions
• Audits and analyzes quarterly cost variances. Consolidates, tabulates, analyzes and reports on various commitment and performance metrics

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Working knowledge of the marketplace conditions for the area of specialization including industry pricing, technology and supply/demand trends
• Strong system skills, including common office platforms such as MS Office and Access 
• Superior Microsoft Excel skills (familiarity with Visual Basic would be an asset)
• Knowledge of purchasing practices and procedures
• Basic understanding of specific customer needs
• Good communication, organization, negotiation and presentation skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion 
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers. 
• Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data. 

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 Five years + relevant experience

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in related field (Business or Engineering), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience

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.