Participate in research and analysis to identify project requirements, conceptualizing plans, designing, and developing systems, establishing guidelines and goals, and creating strategy to optimize operational activities for new product introduction.
Work with Engineering, Quality, Commodity and NPI to ensure success in new product development and launch.
Manage and coordinate in earlier supplier involvement in new product introduction from part design phase through mass production, ensure critical timeline and target COSS are met.
Ensures that Cost, Quality and Availability are achieved for product development phase and through their full life cycle.
Manage supplier onboarding process and selection with integrity, alignment across value-chain and value engineering.
Manage cost activities.
Responsible in ensuring best-in-class cost, thru negotiation and/or tear down activities.
Identifies cost drivers to influence design decision making towards target costing.
Ensure product/module cost models and quotes are up to date at launch and effectively rolled out.
Reviews and negotiates supplier terms and conditions exceptions to mitigate risk.
Supports price negotiations with opportunities to drive short- and long-term cost reduction improvement.
Builds strong, value-added relationships with suppliers, internal customers, and cross functional departments.
Collaborates with Supplier Quality in the new supplier/component release process, including compliance and sustainability aspects.
Partners Category team, ensuring BU product requirement and supplier technology alignment are included in building Commodity Strategy. Supporting and executing category strategy.
Analyze lead times, identify critical paths, and prioritize demand requirements.
Participates in project meetings/brainstorming sessions to identify solutions available.
