About This Role
This senior-level position is typically found at larger sites with over 1500 employees, providing direct and indirect supervision to managers and employees in highly specialized supply chain roles. The director will provide leadership and direction for global corporate SCM strategy across all Celestica sites and/or customers. The role is strategic on a global level, managing or directing multiple SCM teams across various geographies and/or customers, and acts as a key contributor to setting strategic direction for global programs involving customers, sites, suppliers, and products.
Responsibilities
- Maintain responsibility for SCM strategy development and implementation based on supplier/customer complexity on a global level
- Develop new SCM strategies, policies, practices, methods, or programs to establish new strategic direction in support of SCM objectives
- Provide leadership and direction on corporate SCM guidance to site General Managers, Global Customer Business Unit Vice Presidents, and Functional Executives
- Implement structure to meet future customer and process requirements, interacting at all levels of Celestica
- Maintain responsibility for all SCM activities across several sites supporting Industrial and Smart Energy manufacturing knowledge
- Provide leadership and direction to multiple departments on structuring processes, layouts, and resources
- Maintain external contacts to understand best-of-breed processes to improve costs and logistics offerings
- Implement structure to meet future customer and process requirements
- Maintain operational involvement in day-to-day issues related to the warehouse, transportation, internal parts flow, security and controls, inventory management, direction on purchasing contracts and non-production activities, applications, and process changes
- Provide direction on major projects, such as Advanced Planning System tools and enhancements
- Provide direction to managers on objective setting, measurements, human resource activities, and company procedures
- Have regular interaction, coaching, and feedback with direct reports
- Participate in many cross-functional activities such as formal benchmarking studies, interface with external auditors, and driving actions/improvement across the organization
- Review ISO compliance and SCM business controls
- Identify and implement cost reduction activities
- Communicate with customers relating to demand, commitments, non-performing inventory, and future process changes/improvements
- Have responsibility for working with other Celestica sites, SCM, business development, corporate finance and global account teams to drive inventory management results globally
- Lead tactical and long-term initiatives including process improvements, action plans, training and education and implement capital financing initiatives related to improving cash cycle
Requirements
- Extensive knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of supply chain management, distribution methods, global transportation services, and inventory management including demand and planning optimization
- Ability to understand the complete supply chain and resolve issues in any area
- Proven results in supply localization and accommodating supply needs of high mix/low volume business
- Good understanding of IT concepts and integrated business applications
- Strong knowledge in all areas of import/export, regulatory and logistics management, particularly controlling freight premiums in high mix/low volume business
- Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills
- Experience negotiating supply and/or warehousing agreements
- Collaboration with sales, engineering, Operations, IT in RFQ support and flawless customer launches
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Able to resolve complex issues and problems internally and externally
- Significant skills required in multi-tasking and time management
- Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of managers and employees
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers
- Extensive external contacts with consultants, associations and other companies for benchmarking and networking
- Able to work effectively cross-functionally and with other sites to achieve objectives
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferably in Engineering
- 10+ years of relevant supply chain experience
Nice to have:
- Knowledge specific to Industrial products and manufacturing
- Experience with multiple sites/multi geographies
- CPIM designation
Important Details
- Work format: remote, with travel up to 50% as necessary
- Locations: close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California, or locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast
About the Company
Celestica enables the world’s best brands. Through its recognized customer-centric approach, it partners with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, Celestica imagines, develops and delivers a better future with its customers.
