Director - Strategic Sourcing - Electronics & Semi Conductor Industry

Role : Director - Strategic Sourcing

Location : Bangalore

Purpose of the Role :

This position will lead a team of worldwide commodity managers and strategic sourcing managers who are actively engaged with suppliers as well as internal engineering teams to achieve cost targets. The role is key to leading the Organisation forward in securing quality suppliers of materials and components covering price, delivery and quality targets.

- Consistently and effectively working on cost reduction initiatives

- Continuously thinking of new and creative ideas to reduce costs

- Negotiating hard with suppliers on supply, quality and costs

- Develop business relationships with suppliers that enable long term optimized support of company requirements to reduce cost and improve service

- Continuously seek opportunities to improve methodologies and their application to assigned business processes while maintaining the long-term sustainability of these processes

- Demonstrate procurement work performance through criteria related to quality, availability, and cost of materials necessary to meet business requirements

- Negotiation, and support of vendor contracts, service level agreements, and performance measurement programs related to materials/assembly acquisition

Preferred Candidate :

- Education : Bachelor's degree in Engineering (EE or E&C), with 15+ years of experience in sourcing Electronic components

- Demonstrated in-depth knowledge and working experience of Semiconductor components

- Extensive global sourcing experience & strong negotiation skills

- Contracting, pricing, supply chain/sourcing strategies

- Must possess demonstrated work experience to work with outsourced manufacturing suppliers and procurement teams to drive problem resolution, ECO implementation, quality processes, and effective source cost analysis

- Demonstrated success in supplier management, cost reduction & inventory management

- Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, with associated procurement based technical knowledge

- Strong personal computer application usage skills are required (Desktop office and ERP systems applications)

- Must be able to work in an environment of short notice changes, and tolerate interruptions

- Direct experience with Oracle ERP Business Systems and related procurement transactions desired

- APICS CPM, and/or other certifications a plus