Associate Commodity Manager - Manufacturing

Responsibilities :

PI Project Management :

- SPOC for sourcing Activities for Assigned NPI project

- Ensure sourcing Project deliverables such as Quality, Delivery, Cost & Service deliverables are met for assigned projects

- Active involvement in project planning

- Drive cross-functional team to ensure sourcing process are followed.

- Product Cost Management at BOM level for all Commodities for the assigned project

NPI Commodity Management :

- Support Assigned mechanical commodity to all NPI projects.

- Capacity planning and Single-source risk mitigation at NPI stage.

- Represent Company needs to the industry and drive supplier partnerships to enable aligned investments

- Work with company mechanical technical expert to define target candidate suppliers of Company NPIs based on Enphase commodity strategy

- Lead commercial-related activities including RFI/RFQs, etc, and perform commodity management roles in activities leading by other functions to support NPI.

- Collaborate with Company mechanical experts and commodity team members drive best sourcing decisions based on TCO

- Understand current market pricing and dynamics of competitive landscape

- Define cost drivers, establish should cost and work with engineers to achieve Design-to-Cos

- Escalation point for NPI team on mechanical commodity related issues, including delivery, quality, supplier support, etc.

Strategy Development and Implementation :

- Collaborate with Company Mechanical Commodity Manager - Sustaining and other commodity team -members to define the company's sourcing strategy.

- Implement commodity strategy during whole NPI lifecycle.

- Managing sourcing risks and create mitigation plan during whole NPI lifecycle.

- Contribute valuable inputs to supplier scorecard and business review, follow up responsible action points and drive supplier improvement continuously.

Technology Management :

- Align suppliers and Company technology roadmaps through understanding of market trends, company future requirements and suppliers- technology value proposition

- Develop suppliers to enable innovative products/solutions to align with the company roadmap

- Be trusted partner and thought leader to Company product and development team

Minimum Qualifications :

- Demonstrated ability to drive and close cross-functional project initiatives with great skill of project management

- Minimum BE (Preferable Mechanical Engineering, ME in Mech Engineering and/or MBA)

- 7+ years of Mechanical Global Commodity Management, Manufacturing or Management experience in a telecom/networking industry. Strong background on NPI management will be a plus.

- Direct Experience in Mechanical, Electromechanical Systems

- Possesses strong knowledge of overall Mechanical Plastic Injection molding, sheet metal stamping/Fabrication manufacturing process, and the sub-tier mechanical component supply base

- Demonstrated leadership, collaboration and influencing skills

- Strong, positive, can-do attitude, self-motivated and directed