Manages staff to ensure timely and accurate purchase, movement and control of inventory.- Maintains responsibility for performance management, development, recognition, coaching and compensation of employees.- Reassigns personnel as necessary to optimize work. Acts as a liaison with customers to ensure forecast commitments are met.- Maintains continuous material supply, including pricing, on-time delivery, tracking excess and obsolete inventory, and maintaining appropriate inventory levels and turns.- Reviews production schedules and changes to define the material requirements.- Addresses and resolves possible material shortages. Works with other departments to review and dispose of non-conforming materials.- Acts as a liaison between customer project management and internal departments on introducing new product requirements.- Ensures bill of materials, pricing structure, supplier base, etc., is cost-effective.- Recognizes cost impact of excess and obsolescence and actively seeks a return on investment.- Monitors customer repairs and validates the type of warranty and associated costs. Works with other departments to meet repair commitments.- Provides direct management to semi-skilled and entry-level professional employees performing diverse and/or specialized roles or employees in more than one function or work group. This includes establishing annual plans/objectives and interpreting policies related to the functional area.- Contributes to policy development.- Work is performed within established professional standards and practices.- Receives assignments in the form of tasks and goals and follows established processes to meet the goals of the unit.- Executes budgets, develops schedules and enforces policies and procedures.- Erroneous decisions or failure to achieve results may have a negative impact on the division's/department's operations, schedules and/or performance goals.- Provides immediate supervision to employees in more than one function or work group, assigning tasks and checking work at regular intervals.- Directs subordinates to achieve assignments using established guidelines, procedures, and policies. Makes hiring and firing decisions.- Reviews employees' performance and recommends employee compensation; coaches for improved performance and disciplines as necessary.- Interacts directly with subordinates and peer groups.- Builds strong internal and external relationships that require exchanging of information and providing explanations in a problem-solving capacity.**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:- Five to seven years with CTB & Operation- Broad knowledge of an electronic manufacturing environment, materials and processes.- Excellent knowledge of procurement processes, inventory management, CTB management, production management, supplier management, shipping and forwarder management- Excellent negotiation and problem resolution skills.- Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight deadlines.- Ability to evaluate, prioritize, and problem solve various tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with various internal and external customers.- Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of employees.Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).**COMPANY OVERVIEW**:Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.
