Sourcing Engineer
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Support product commercialization teams and provide the strategic linkage between commodity management and the NPI team,
Be responsible for the integration of selected suppliers into the front end design process and the management of joint development agreements,
Thus ensuring that all commercial and contractual objectives are met in a timely and cost effective manner
- Lead and manage all NPI projects in EKL and report on progress.
- Define commodity and supply strategy in order to deliver value to operations, technical and the commercialisation process which drive down products costs and maximise quality. (This may include renegotiation, value engineering, price and quotation analysis, supplier development, supplier rationalisation, make vs. buy, outsourcing, low-cost country sourcing, strategic sourcing and demand management.)
- Provide project management and supply engineering support for new product development activities and liaise with UK/KR technical NPI project engineers.
- Provide close support to operations management for material supply. This involves leading structured review meetings with manufacturing cells to identify problems and apply the necessary corrective actions.
- Ensure that all materials and services required by NPI project team are procured within agreed parameters, quality, inventory levels and delivery performance for all production suppliers in a timely and efficient manner.
- Ensure that all production suppliers are capable of meeting site requirements with respect to material supply of good components to arrive on time and in a responsive, consistent and cost effective manner. Identify risks to supply and develop and implement plans and implement policies to mitigate these risks.
- Responsibility for managing commercial terms of supply and implementing supply agreements through the commodity management function.
- Continually review all NPI purchasing systems/procedures and ensure that all supply management policies (tools, procedures, measures and processes) are commonly applied across sites and continuously developed strategies and implement improvement where appropriate. Develop and enforce the company’s ethical purchasing policy, and provide a sustainable procurement strategy.
Education level:
- Minimum bachelor’ degree in engineering or business management.
Relevant Previous experience:
- People management.
- Strategic & Global sourcing.
Knowledge areas/Skills
- Knowledge of raw material metal, mechanical and electrical parts and components.
- Knowledge of manufacturing process of above parts.
- Knowledge of cost analysis and value engineering.
- Knowledge of quality system and supply chain management.
- Knowledge of drawings analysis.
- Knowledge of purchase process standization.
- Skill of negotiation.
- Skill of supplier diagnosis and assessment.
Other requirements:
- Fluent in both spoken and written English.
- Communication.
- Cost analysis and market intelligence.
- Understanding of matrix organization.
- Project management.
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