Expert Supply Chain Manager

As our Sourcing Specialist, you'll be a key player in the Commodity Management team, taking ownership of a wide range of tasks and projects. You'll apply established sourcing and procurement best practices, using your independent judgment to solve moderately complex issues and drive results. This role requires building and maintaining strong relationships with key internal partners and external suppliers. Success is critical, as your decisions directly impact departmental operations, schedules, and performance goals. While you'll operate with general supervision, you should know when to escalate unusual situations to management.

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following :

Maintains local, regional and global responsibility for a specific commodity or group of commodities for price / value determination, sourcing, negotiations, terms & conditions and supplier relationship development working independently.

Quotes and negotiates all products and services quarterly.

Develops cost of customer bids within response time objectives.

Supports bid activities by interacting with the site teams to compile and deliver the material commitment to the customer.

Participates in Commodity Council Corporate negotiation team and / or the Customer Materials Commitment process by providing material pricing and data analysis.

Conducts Quarterly Business Reviews with top suppliers and review customer BOMs for quarterly commits.

Coordinates any supplier communication.

Reviews and resolves issues on supplier performance feedback, supplier report card and bids.

Supports the site SCM buying teams in times of product shortage or suppliers not meeting performance requirements including escalation within the supplier and alternative source development / recommendations.

Supports customers to resolve quality, serviceability and performance related issues for products or bid activities.

Consolidates, tabulates, analyzes and reports on various commitment and performance metrics.

Knowledge / Skills / Competencies

Strong systems skills, including common office platforms

Knowledge of purchasing practices and procedures.

Basic understanding of specific customer needs.

Good communication, negotiation and presentation skills.

Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.

Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.

Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.

Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.

Fluent in English, both written and spoken

Physical Demands

Willingness to travel up to 10-20%

Hybrid positition, combining remote work (home office) with on-site office days.

Typical Experience

One to five years relevant experience.

Typical Education

Bachelor's degree in related field (Business or Engineering), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.

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).

At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

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.