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This position reports to:

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Commodity Team Leader

Main Mission:

Component Specialist is responsible for the global supplier/components/project assigned to implement respective strategies, be the key contact for internal/external stakeholders and take full account for the division EMS/component supply chain improvement and strategy deployment to ensure on corporate level business continuous success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with global procurement and logistics team to develop, align and implement component and supplier strategies based on global market/technology trend
• Develop and implement tools to improve global component supply chain management productivity
• Commodity supplier/distributor management/evaluation and performance monitoring
• Manage global supplier/EMS relationships/performance review
• Drive commodity supply chain improvement objectives and cost savings, deliver continuous and sustainable spend reduction through supplier negotiation, new sourcing models and purchasing process optimization
• Manage and drive global purchasing process productivity improvement plans
• Manage and maintain global commodity database/system
• Manage global commodity supply chain and stock level to ensure supply security
• Document maintenance/global price control
• Data analysis and component library management
• Contract management like LOA, NDA etc.

Basic Requirements:

• Minimum Education Level: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Minimum 3years experience as commodity/category/EMS manager, proven experience in industrial business area is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Electronics market, purchasing process, sourcing strategy and application
• Knowledge of contractual and legal aspects
• Good understanding of business practices, market dynamics and trends
• Good negotiation, communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
• International minded and can work in a global team
• Fluent written and spoken English/Chinese
• Excellent in office software incl. Excel, PPT, Power BI etc.
• Ability to work independently in a virtual, remote environment

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