To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add a Supply Chain Analyst located in Columbia, SC.

Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager the Supply Chain Analyst In charge of customer interface on strategic materials for key assigned accounts. Hold up material manager or director to develop, implement GPSC reports, data research trends to facilitate resolutions making.

What a typical day looks like:

• Drives sourcing/pricing strategies in materials quotations.
• Presents materials value-add to customers or suppliers, and influence customer to use Flex preferred suppliers.
• Interfaces with customer or supplier in new project start-up, for cost of ownership issues.
• Develops and guides implementation of flexibility and supply assurance plans.
• Manages component cost/price on a local, regional and global basis.
• Tracks materials financial performance, and initiate corrective actions when required.
• Defines and implements pricing and costing strategies.
• Coordinate sourcing strategies with Supply Management and Customers.
• Develop an implement cost take down strategies.
• Increase Vendor Managed Inventory, Reduced Guide-Time and Electronic Data Interface penetration.
• Supply Management:
• Manage regional supplier contract negotiations, which includes Memorandums of Comprehension, Non-disclosure and regional pricing agreements.
• Develop and maintain supplier relationships.
• Measure and report Purchase Price Variance and initiate action plans.
• Monitor and manage supplier times.
• Mitigates shortages, excess on order and excess on hand.
• Participate on and help global and regional commodity teams.
• Contribute information/data on top spend suppliers for quarterly scorecards.
• Customer Supply Chain Management:
• Manages material cost reviews.
• Drive initiatives to improve gross material margin.
• Identify, implement and drive actions for Retained Purchase Price Variance (RPPV) optimization.
• Drive reconciliation process with customer (PPV, Premium charges, carrying costs, freight charges, excess and obsolete inventory, Non-cancelable, Non-Returnable (NCNR), etc.)
• Identify opportunities to increase turnkey business and develop materials management plan.
• Coordinate quarterly/monthly PPV hard call process.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Typically requires a minimum of 7 years experience
• Demonstrates expert functional, technical and people and/or process management skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.
• Demonstrates detailed expertise in very complex functional/technical area or broad breadth of knowledge in multiple areas; understands the strategic impact of the function across sites
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
• Ability to write speeches and articles using original or innovative techniques or style. Ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions and percentages.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• An America Production Inventory Control Society (APICS) certification, Certified Production Inventory Management (CPIM), National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) certification, or Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) is preferred.
• Develops and recommends functional strategic plans and objectives for site/ organization. Has experience in leading major initiatives and provides input to those initiatives which impact site goals and KOI.

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