Director Global Program Management jobs at Flex in Malaysia
Flex Director Commodity Management Mechanical Malaysia, Penang
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Here is a glimpse of what you'll do:
Develop and define corporate strategic plans for the PCB Commodity team and manage team members to ensure implementation of strategic initiatives.
Set and deliver on KPI commitments to the Procurement organization. Continuously review opportunities for improvement. Subject Matter Expertise for the managed commodity and ability to have market discussions both internally and externally as it relates to commercial trends, requirements and market direction. Establish credibility with customers through the demonstration of technical and commercial competence.
Manage the Flex Preferred Supplier Program for the identified commodity to consolidate spend, ensure technical and capacity coverage and have appropriate commercial agreements in place.
Partner with Supply Chain, Engineering and Quote teams to promote and position preferred suppliers and identify value engineering / improvements to drive competitive advantage. The lead is responsible for providing timely and adequate support to the quote team to secure new business.
Lead and manage regular supplier contract and pricing negotiations to achieve margin and cash targets.
Support internal vendor setup process to obtain best terms and ensure a smooth and timely manufacturing ramp on new programs.
Be responsible for making final decisions on administrative or operational matters and ensure effective achievement of objectives. Be comfortable with major decisions that will impact profitability.
Act as escalation point for internal and external executives in the event of major supplier issues.
Communicate and implement strategies, contracts and pricing to achieve maximum advantage for the company and customers.
Intensively collaborate with all internal and external stakeholders to optimize overall Procurement goals and objectives.
Work with the Supply Chain, Site and Quote teams on supplier and sourcing strategies including supplier selection, risk analysis and capacity assessment.
Develop effective relationships in region to ensure that the team is fully engaged in alternate sourcing opportunities.
Liaise with senior management to ensure all activities are compliant with corporate policies.
Monitor Commodity market conditions, supplier technology roadmaps and assess supply/demand challenges. Gather relevant Market Intelligence and communicate to internal marketing teams as needed.
Use broad understanding of Flex’ strategy and capabilities combined with technical Commodity knowledge to enhance the function. Proactively identify new initiatives that can mitigate supply challenges or enhance Flex profitability and cash flow.
Disciplined management of procurement activities by utilizing appropriate tools and systems.
Work closely with management to develop resources to add value to the commodity function with regard to performance management and talent acquisition. Ensure succession and training plans are regularly updated and maintained.
Implement appropriate actions to recruit and retain qualified and motivated team members.
Support other strategic initiatives as needed in support of overall Procurement goals.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
BA/BS Degree in Business, Engineering, Materials Management or equivalent required. Electro-Mechanical a plus, Master degree preferred.
Fluency in English and Chinese is a minimum requirement.
10+ years of increasingly responsible positions in Procurement, Supply Chain or Manufacturing, including at least 5 years in a people management role.
Successful track record of managing PCB suppliers in a large organization.
Strong understanding of PCB supplier landscape, technologies and costing.
Good negotiation skills, to make clear agreements with suppliers and the internal organization.
Excellent organizational skills and ability to make complex business decisions.
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Flex Technical Process Management Engineer Malaysia, Penang
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Technical Process Management Engineerlocated in
What a typical day looks like:
- Act as the bridge between the innovation engineering teams and the low volume production groups within Flex.
- Evaluate designs and make recommendations to improve production efficiencies
- Collaborate with fellow engineers to provide innovated products and ideas for the customer and for the Flex organization
- Collaborate with design engineers to help create efficient processes for the production of products (prototype and low volume production runs)
- Lead quick reaction teams of engineers, technologists, and technicians in low volume builds of innovated products
- Define, implement, and evaluate proposed designs and processes for manufacturability
- Have the capability to independently or collaboratively, with other engineering stakeholders, identify root cause(s) of failures in the manufacturing process
- Establish robust, repeatable, and reproducible process parameters
- Develop, implement, and take ownership of process control methodologies
- Trouble shoot process related issues
- Implement statistical process analysis on new and existing products
- Implement safety, productivity, and yield improvements
- Improve manufacturing techniques and throughput
- Provide continuous development of manufacturing techniques that will improve in-house capabilities and yields
- Develop and maintain process documentation
- Assist in the development of training and provide training to production personnel during new technology transfer
- Work with product design engineers on the prototype build process to assist with prototype Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) as required
- Participate in Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA) development process as required
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
- Functional knowledge, education background or relevant 4+ years of working experience required.
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
- Medical benefits, dental, vision
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Performance Bonus
Required Skills:
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Flex Director Loss Prevention Investigations Malaysia, Penang
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Director, Loss Prevention and Investigationslocated in
Bukit Minyak, Penang.
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What a typical day looks like:
- Development and execution of security programs including physical security, asset control, supply chain security, travel security, executive protection, information security and hold up to site management and business units.
- Management of security programs for assigned sites in Penang cluster, perform and publish threat and vulnerability assessments, physical security surveys and designs, personal protection awareness and travel briefings, periodic threat advisories, route and destination surveys, and protective service assessment and operations.
- Identify, develop, implement, and maintain security processes, practices and policies at sites to eliminate risks, attend incidents, and limit exposure and liability in all areas of information, financial, physical, personal, and reputation risk.
- Perform investigations involving allegations falling within Corporate Security's management including burglary, theft, in-transit shortages, crimes against persons and property, and business abuse.
- Partner with Legal and Human Resources department to assist with due diligence investigations, as needed.
- Manages fraud, waste and abuse reporting and information reward program.
- Builds strong partnerships across site and regional teams with customer security service providers, site management and law enforcement, including search risk, benchmark standards and uncontrollable complexities to provide ethical and innovative solutions
- In charge of criminal intelligence collection and research.
- Site crisis management team through resiliency programs and clearing communicating policies and requirements to site management and employees.
- Administers counter-terrorism and counter-espionage programs.
- Assists Flex’s marketing efforts by establishing protection and risk plan for customer visits and conducting site visits with customers and their securityrepresentatives.
- Guides the activities of contract site security officers and other contracted security providers.
- Influences and maintains metrics and awareness programs.
- Prepare and manage site security budget and forecasting.
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience andtraining.
- Typically requires 11+ years of progressively responsible positions within corporate security or related area.
- Demonstrates overall strong communication skills, as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of the specific discipline and manufacturing operationsbusiness.
- Knowledge of Flex business a plus. 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.
- Requires thorough knowledge of related security systems and software.
- Demonstrates expert knowledge of the function and a thorough understanding of Flex and related business.
- Demonstrates mastery of functional knowledge in relation to other functions and a complete understanding of the function and those of related businesses
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
- Life Insurance
- Medical Benefits
- Allowances and Bonuses
- Paid Time-Off
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Flex Operations Director Malaysia, Penang
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What a typical day looks like:
- Guarantee production, delivery in full, on time and in specifications, required by customers, at the most cutthroat cost
- Define operational financial goals
- Operational business experience including a successful performance track record managing staff and P&L
- Establish and communicate Business Unit goals and assignments.
- Define and execute operational programs in line with strategic plans and annual operating goals.
- Meet with Executive Business at least monthly to review and evaluate KOI’s.
- Attend quarterly business reviews with key customers.
- Partner with other business to establish strategic plans and goals.
- Direct and control the activities on purchasing business, production control, planning, manufacturing engineering, test engineering, maintenance, manufacturing and logistics.
- Implement appropriate HR strategies and actions to recruit and retain a qualified and motivated workforce.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent experience and training plus a minimum of 9+ years of management experience.
- A Master’s or MBA degree is preferred.
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
- Medical benefits, dental, vision
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Performance Bonus
Required Skills:
Optional Skills:
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Flex Technical Process Management Engineer Malaysia, Penang
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Technical Process Management Engineerlocated in
What a typical day looks like:
- Act as the bridge between the innovation engineering teams and the low volume production groups within Flex.
- Evaluate designs and make recommendations to improve production efficiencies
- Collaborate with fellow engineers to provide innovated products and ideas for the customer and for the Flex organization
- Collaborate with design engineers to help create efficient processes for the production of products (prototype and low volume production runs)
- Lead quick reaction teams of engineers, technologists, and technicians in low volume builds of innovated products
- Define, implement, and evaluate proposed designs and processes for manufacturability
- Have the capability to independently or collaboratively, with other engineering stakeholders, identify root cause(s) of failures in the manufacturing process
- Establish robust, repeatable, and reproducible process parameters
- Develop, implement, and take ownership of process control methodologies
- Trouble shoot process related issues
- Implement statistical process analysis on new and existing products
- Implement safety, productivity, and yield improvements
- Improve manufacturing techniques and throughput
- Provide continuous development of manufacturing techniques that will improve in-house capabilities and yields
- Develop and maintain process documentation
- Assist in the development of training and provide training to production personnel during new technology transfer
- Work with product design engineers on the prototype build process to assist with prototype Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA) as required
- Participate in Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (DFMEA) development process as required
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
- Functional knowledge, education background or relevant 4+ years of working experience required.
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
- Medical benefits, dental, vision
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Performance Bonus
Required Skills:
Optional Skills:
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Flex Assistant Manager Program Management Malaysia, Penang
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located in
Key responsibilities include achieving high levels of forecast accuracy, managing manufacturing costs, and ensuring project timelines are aligned with overall capacity plans. The role requires a strategic leader who can effectively manage resources across cross-functional teams, optimize operational processes, and lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance customer satisfaction and manufacturing performance.
Principal Responsibilities
Interfacing with customers, including solving customer problems, building relationships, and managing escalations.
Leading successfully small to medium-sized projects with cross-functional teams from initiation to completion in a fast-moving environment.
Participating in project planning sessions and contributing to timelines and deliverables.
Participating in cross-departmental teams to deliver projects or initiatives.
Facilitating meetings between different teams to ensure alignment.
Effectively presenting project updates to stakeholders and senior leaders.
Preparing reports or presentations summarizing project progress and outcomes.
Participating in lean initiatives.
Specific Responsibilities
P&L Management / Financial Management / Cost Management: Responsible for delivering the manufacturing cost committed to the forecast. Monitor financial performance, report on Manufacturing cost FCST variances, and drive actions for improvement.
Team Leadership / CFT Owner : Lead cross-functional teams (CFT), coordinating efforts across different departments.
Project Planning and Procurement Execution Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring they are completed on time and within Manufacturing cost FCST. Define and manage project scope, goals, timelines, and deliverables.
Customer Relationship Management / Customer Communication: Act as customers' Program/Site representative, ensuring their needs are met. Supports customer vistits. Regular updates to inform customers of project status, challenges, and successes. Site score / Quality Score / Delivery Score.
KPI Tracking / Operational Excellence: Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to customer satisfaction, OTD, quality, Accounts Receivable (AR), and financial performance.
Risk Management: Identify potential risks to the project and implement strategies to mitigate them.
Contract Compliance / Management: Ensure all services and activities performed by the site follow the contract and agreements. Ensure compliance with contract terms (set by the commercial team) and manage contractual obligations, all the non- contractual situations must be escalated to GAM’s (proposal).
Scope / Change Management: Manage changes in project scope, schedule, and resources effectively. Manage Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) and Product Change Notifications (PCNs) in accordance with customer requirements. Ensure changes to scope are clear. Address any impact from the change request that needs to be adequately solved by the commercial team.
Forecast Management: Acknowledge input from demand forecasts and ensure alignment with production capacities (man, machine, materials). Supports the development of accurate forecast and demand plans.
Claims Management: Variance Management Tracking identifies possible claims and recoveries and addresses them with the commercial team for timely resolution.
Inventory Management: Oversee inventory levels to ensure adequate supply for production at Site level.
Quality Assurance: Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards and customer expectations.
Reporting and Documentation: Provide regular updates and comprehensive documentation of program activities.
Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives for process improvements and operational efficiencies.
ESG and Sustainability - Customer requirements : Implement customer requirements as agreed & vetted by Commercial Teams.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain management, Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, or related field.
Typically requires 3+ years of experience of Program/project management in engineering, production, operations, supply chain, or related management.
Manufacturing/industrialindustry in supply chain, engineering and finance, and operation planning positions.
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off
Allowances & Bonuses*
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Flex Technical Program Manager Malaysia, Penang
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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a/anlocated in. Partner with the Design & Engineering teams and commercial teams to drive the design, validation and implementation of innovative and cost-effective product solutions of varying scope in order to meet customer requirements from development of conceptual prototypes and architecture thru the NPI phase. Work closely with the Director of Program Management to define market and product requirements and provide voice of the market and customer to the design & engineering teams in I&NV.
What a typical day looks like:
- Drive the execution of product development, contributing technical expertise to product development, coordinating the development of new technologies with technical program engineers, and ensuring program timing and budgets are met
- Drive definition of products in markets including consumer, industrial, medical, digital health, automotive, enterprise and cloud computing, IoT, etc.
- Actively identify and assess new product opportunities and initiatives for customer designs and white label products. Work closely with design engineering to extract and develop core productfeatures-advantages-benefitsinformation to drive and support the product marketing strategy.
- Translate customer’s technical needs and requirements to the NPI and CFT teams
- Knowledge of multiple functional technologies/ processes, industries or functions and understanding of inter-dependencies of such processes at the site
- Establish and ensure effective achievement of functional strategic plans and objectives for the site and may have P&L responsibilities.
- Develops plans for structuring and implementing major initiatives
- Lead program team, including regular team meetings and updates to management.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
- Possesses a Degree in related discipline or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 10 years of working experience in the related field is required.
- Candidate with experiences in project management, process engineering or industrial engineering will be added advantage
Required Skills:
Optional Skills:
Design, Design Engineering, Process Engineering, Product Development, Product Marketing, Product Requirements, Product Solutions, Program Management, Project Management, Technical KnowledgeThese jobs might be a good fit
Here is a glimpse of what you'll do:
Develop and define corporate strategic plans for the PCB Commodity team and manage team members to ensure implementation of strategic initiatives.
Set and deliver on KPI commitments to the Procurement organization. Continuously review opportunities for improvement. Subject Matter Expertise for the managed commodity and ability to have market discussions both internally and externally as it relates to commercial trends, requirements and market direction. Establish credibility with customers through the demonstration of technical and commercial competence.
Manage the Flex Preferred Supplier Program for the identified commodity to consolidate spend, ensure technical and capacity coverage and have appropriate commercial agreements in place.
Partner with Supply Chain, Engineering and Quote teams to promote and position preferred suppliers and identify value engineering / improvements to drive competitive advantage. The lead is responsible for providing timely and adequate support to the quote team to secure new business.
Lead and manage regular supplier contract and pricing negotiations to achieve margin and cash targets.
Support internal vendor setup process to obtain best terms and ensure a smooth and timely manufacturing ramp on new programs.
Be responsible for making final decisions on administrative or operational matters and ensure effective achievement of objectives. Be comfortable with major decisions that will impact profitability.
Act as escalation point for internal and external executives in the event of major supplier issues.
Communicate and implement strategies, contracts and pricing to achieve maximum advantage for the company and customers.
Intensively collaborate with all internal and external stakeholders to optimize overall Procurement goals and objectives.
Work with the Supply Chain, Site and Quote teams on supplier and sourcing strategies including supplier selection, risk analysis and capacity assessment.
Develop effective relationships in region to ensure that the team is fully engaged in alternate sourcing opportunities.
Liaise with senior management to ensure all activities are compliant with corporate policies.
Monitor Commodity market conditions, supplier technology roadmaps and assess supply/demand challenges. Gather relevant Market Intelligence and communicate to internal marketing teams as needed.
Use broad understanding of Flex’ strategy and capabilities combined with technical Commodity knowledge to enhance the function. Proactively identify new initiatives that can mitigate supply challenges or enhance Flex profitability and cash flow.
Disciplined management of procurement activities by utilizing appropriate tools and systems.
Work closely with management to develop resources to add value to the commodity function with regard to performance management and talent acquisition. Ensure succession and training plans are regularly updated and maintained.
Implement appropriate actions to recruit and retain qualified and motivated team members.
Support other strategic initiatives as needed in support of overall Procurement goals.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
BA/BS Degree in Business, Engineering, Materials Management or equivalent required. Electro-Mechanical a plus, Master degree preferred.
Fluency in English and Chinese is a minimum requirement.
10+ years of increasingly responsible positions in Procurement, Supply Chain or Manufacturing, including at least 5 years in a people management role.
Successful track record of managing PCB suppliers in a large organization.
Strong understanding of PCB supplier landscape, technologies and costing.
Good negotiation skills, to make clear agreements with suppliers and the internal organization.
Excellent organizational skills and ability to make complex business decisions.
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Required Skills:
Optional Skills:
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