NPI/TPI Buyer Job Listing at Flex in Guadalajara, Jal. (Job ID WD208760)

Description

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. 

A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary.

Summary:

The “NPI/TPI Buyer” will be based in ……., reporting to ……

This role will be coordination and implementation of ECO changes, new products or end-of-life products in accordance with Customer specific requirements.

 

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring availability of parts for new products according to the required quality, delivery, and cost.
• Scouting and supplier selection in line with divisional and local goals and policies.
• Achieving continuous improvement in quality, delivery and costs of all purchased components and sub-assemblies.
• Helping value engineering exercises to improve the value/cost ratios of all parts.
• Manage supplier relations.
• Arrange correct documentation to ensure release of new product at each relevant milestone of the new product project.
• Send out initial orders and requests for quotations (RFQ).
• Maintenance the purchase price in the system and work off price differences in Baan.
• Adjusting in time the correct purchase price in the system and keep traceability upon.
• Be a permanent member of the Project team and assure hold up for the Procurement, if needed.
• Evaluate supplier quotations and make agreements on pricing, delivery, quality, capacities, etc.
• Organize and monitor initial samples.
• Monitor and help the start-up phase of each new component or sub-assembly.
• Help and follow up production, corrective actions.
• In case of quality problems negotiation with the competent manager or department.
• Initiate required design modifications towards the Suppliers.
• Monitor the supply market in terms of technologies and costs.
• Keep connection with Suppliers.
• Continuously improve the quality, integral cost and delivery of all parts.
• Manage EOL parts with buyers.
• Looking for cost reduction possibilities, improve PPV.
• In charge of efficient communication flow about progress of every NPI/TPI/EOL/ECO related project within SC, CFT and with Customer (including Customer/Supplier visits/meetings and calls).
• Coordination and implementation of ECO changes within SC in accordance to Customer specific requirements, with strong focus on ECO related cost collection and reporting.
• Coordination transfers of new products in accordance with Customer specific requirements.
• Coordinating end-of-life process in accordance with Customer specific requirements (including minimizing obsolete, revaluation).
• Coordinating verification of new MPN/Supplier on production (First Article Inspection - FAI procedure).
• In charge of/Co-ordination of preparing material RFQ, as applicable, (Request for quotation for new Bill Of Material and for all new Engineering Change Order /ECO), reviews and analyses new offers from suppliers.
• Controlling AMLs and maintaining T&C for new items (collecting and maintaining data, solving discrepancies with Customer, requests for deviations to Customer etc.).
• Purchasing material status for prototypes/pilots.
• Managing changes in deliveries status according to accord rescheduling rules with Customer and negotiating minimized impact for Flex excess.
• Solving all material discrepancies related to parts delivered for prototypes/pilots with Customer.
• Should be able to read technical documentation (including 3D specifications).
• Should have sufficient knowledge about preferred suppliers in relevant commodities.
• NPI - New Product Introduction (Flex site is the receiving site and the product has not been manufactured elsewhere in volume yet).
• TPI - Transfer Product Introduction (Flex Site is either the receiving or transfer out site; and the product has been manufactured in Volume).
• Monitoring of system accuracy in daily/weekly bases /General Item data/Item supplier information, Business Partner data, Data integrity, Data validation, System set up.
   

Qualifications:

• Typically requires a Bachelor degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires a minimum of 3 years of experience in materials or related field.
• A background in electronics manufacturing is desired.

Required Skills:

Optional Skills:

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