Sourcing Manager

Job Description : SOURCING MANAGER MALAYSIA at one of the leading electronics multinational manufacturing and production firms based in Penang. Reporting directly to the Supply Chain Director, this is a role for a talent who is a leader in their field. About the Sourcing Manager Role: This is a great opportunity for the Sourcing Manager to lead and manage a team of sourcing engineers, focusing on materials cost reduction, and NPI to ensure the design sourcing team aligns with the product and programme requirements with the company and manufacturing strategy during NPO product life cycle state. You will also drive the sourcing solutions for the supply of required materials and tooling for manufacturing programs, while ensuring cost considerations are optimised, and supplier capacity, capability, quality and production locations will support introduction and foreseeable production phase requirements, align functionally, strategically, and to goals/initiatives to accomplish overall company procurement and sourcing objectives during product life cycle phase. Key Responsibilities: · Develops and drives sourcing goals and efforts in the context of a Global Commodity strategy. Ensure new programme team sources from qualified suppliers, achieves materials saving goal and reduce total landed costs · Research global sourcing solutions for needed components. Request/negotiate price quotes and delivery time. Source off approved supplier list and/or collaborates to establish new suppliers as required by the programme · Monitor departmental, functional goals (3CQL) and company goals for which sourcing has responsibility · Coordinate procurement of special material for special projects and engineering samples for new technology · Develop and ready existing/new suppliers to achieve material, volume, location, capacity requirements · Closely collaborate with materials, production, engineering and support commodity 3CQL road maps to achieve PBIT, and customer satisfaction objectives · Work with quality to ensure that monthly supplier performance during NPI phase. In addition, that supplier issues are being resolved before introduction · Work with design engineering and quality to improve the available and selected supplier base. Certifies any new suppliers in line with supplier selection and ASL process · Monitor and evaluate performance of employees, personnel requirements, selection, training and development of sourcing team To succeed in the Sourcing Manager job, you will need to have strong technical knowledge in electronic and mechanical commodities. Key Requirements: · Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Technical field or any other related discipline · Minimum of eight years' working experience in managing sourcing team, supplier negotiation and management for NPI phase · High business integrity and honesty is a must · Strong technical knowledge in PCB, PCBA, cable, connector, metal and plastic · Good at Microsoft Excel · Knowledge in QAD or MRP system

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