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Responsible for continuously driving a culture of excellence in America (USA, Mexico, Brasil and Costa Rica), coaching and enabling waste removal activities using lean and six sigma approaches and tools and guiding actions to a sustainable conclusion.

Responsible for continuously driving a culture of excellence in the organization, coaching and enabling waste removal activities using lean and six sigma approaches and tools and guiding actions to a sustainable conclusion.

Responsible for leading Mexico Región across functional experts in the delivery of customer focused products and services and will support the development and implementation of project, pricing and program strategies in order to continue to deliver value to the business and its customers.

Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals. (Customer Focus Team)•KPI’s - Revenue, OTD, E&O, PPV, CARs, RTY, ECN•Lead the planning and implementation of project•Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables•Define project tasks and resource requirements•Develop full scale project plans•Assemble and coordinate project staff•Manage project budget•Manage project resource allocation•Plan and schedule project timelines•Track project deliverables using appropriate tools•Provide direction and support to project team•Quality assurance•Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project to customers and account managers•Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions•Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs•Project evaluations and assessment of results.

Interfaces with Business Office, Production, Procurement, Planning and customers to compile, develop, validate, and communicate production/shipments plans that support overall business goals. Identifies business process enhancements and participates in their design and implementation. Participates in Master Planning review and procurement actions from MRP process. Coordinates with planning on customer requirements, changes, in order to assess costs and actual feasibility. Supports new product introduction. In coordination with Business Office, negotiates with customer on behalf of SCM on any materials management related activity such as schedules, costs and Engineering Change implementation. Provides customer with technology information, supplier capabilities, and market trends to compliment SCM activities. Reviews all terms and conditions agreed to in the Celestica/Customer contract to assess SCM's ability to meet these requirements. Partners with Business Office in negotiating Terms and Conditions in relation to SCM activities with customer. Identify Celestica's SCM new product process requirements to the customer, and ensure all information is received and SCM processes initiated effectively. Coordinates Bill of Material analysis. Reviews content, lead time constraints, critical parts supply and component reliability issues. Ensures alternate source capability to maintain supply continuity and verify that customer costs can be supported. Materials bid management. Reviews and submits all customer material bid requests. Resolves any issues with customer, internal team. Manages customer relationship from Supply Chain perspective. Obtains and disseminates customer SCM feedback to team. Champions improvements and communicates action plans.

Material Leader assure availability and profitability on material related issues to product lineInventory Management supply to PL, identify key and critical items, Production Plan and CTB confirmation, material transfer, E&O, ECN Management, ramp up, ramp down and close down.Cost control consolidate material prices from Elcoteq sourcing and costumer, analysis of agreed prices with costumers, splits and break downs (price change, effective dates, supplier, origin and terms), Price List and surcharge maintenance, PPV collection, Audit PO pricing, report material cost ( Quoted vs real ) Inventory revaluation.Development responsibilities improve SC flexibility and cost control.Staffing coach a Planner, a Sr Buyer, a Buyer and one shop floor control, all of us focused on reduce inventory levels, making sure there we use this material properly and improving the PPV per unit

NPI Sr Buyer coordinate the introduction of new products, costumer forecast analysis, deal ramp up with suppliers/costumer, transfer material from other sites, SAP implementation and training for planners and buyers in Jabil Brazil.

NPI Planner/Buyer coordinate the introduction of new products, costumer forecast analysis, deal ramp up with suppliers or costumer, transfer material from other sites.

Responsible for supporting materials and production functions.Leads order processing activities for major customer units. Advises non-exempt associates regarding day-to-day priority of customer requests. Serves as advanced interface with customer for escalations of order commitments, order expedites, and problem resolution.Monitors and proactively addresses issues that impact performance to committed ship date (CSD), lead-time, response time, and inventory goals.

To build internal relationships and develop indirect material sourcing and supply base strategies. To participate in developing processes to effectively control spending in the Indirect Procurement commodities and scale to support anticipated growth along with the corporation.