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Job Summary:
- Accountable for supervising global supplier costing team responsible for supplier material costing and sourcing necessary to support UCT customer product, annual pricing requirements and costing roadmap.
- Competitive supplier costing is the initial critical step in increasing UCT's market share and driving to higher revenue for the company.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervise the global supplier costing team daily responsibilities to support all UCT facilities, products and customers related to:
- Supporting must win customer product quotes
- Supporting category management team with annual supplier pricing negotiations
- Supporting overall supplier costing roadmap
- Assist in training a world class supplier costing team to drive higher UCT margins through reduced supplier material costs
- Liaison with NPI teams, Category Management and Product Management on critical new customer product opportunities or to be quoted by UCT
- Chair Kick-Off meetings with stakeholders regarding critical product requirements, confirm RFQ package is complete, establish expectations and provide commitments
- Ensure global supplier costing procedures and work instructions are accurate and clearly define roles & responsibilities of supplier costing team
- Ensure Purchase Info Record (PIR) information is accurate when submitting supplier costing information to ERP
- For must win customer quotes, roll up all supplier costs from supplier costing team to create a complete supplier costing summary including:
- Prioritizing must win opportunities to ensure timely execution of supplier costing and on time submittal of product costing roll up
- Review with category management team any non strategic suppliers chosen and receive approval prior to moving forward
- Ensure all supplier costing is completed prior to submitting proposal
- Identify preferred suppliers chosen of overall submissions along with reasoning for decision
- Ensure that NRE, excess materials, etc., related to UCT or customer liability are clearly noted
- Ensure that costing from non strategic sources have notes indicating reasoning behind sourcing decision
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Supplier costing and material negotiation background preferred
- Must have demonstrated experience in negotiations, material cost analysis, and ability to meet or beat requirements to support costing roadmaps
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, presentation, coaching, and mentoring skills.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to understand, and perform to, complex requirements.
- Proficient in motivating and leading a team of costing analysts to ensure all expectations are communicated, commitments are made in a timely manner and deadlines are met on a consistent basis.
- Excellent computer skills (MS Office suite, particularly Excel) and database experience, SAP ERP experience a positive
- Ability to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, with identified prioritization
- Must be able to read and understand engineering drawings
Educational/Certification Requirement:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or Supply Chain Management
