Flex Supply Chain Analyst 

United States, South Carolina 

478065421

Orangeburg, SC.

Reporting to the

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 and implement cost take down strategies.
• Increase Vendor Managed Inventory, Reduced Guide-Time and Electronic Data Interface penetration.
• 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.

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalentexperience.
• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in finance, materials sourcing, commodity management or supply chain design/management or other related area.
• Must have an understanding of cost accounting, electronic component markets, price trends andtechnologies.
• A background in electronics manufacturing and a thorough understanding of Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) product development process.
• To perform the major job responsibilities the use of the following tools may be required: Office Skills: telephones, data entry, office software to include, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation packages, and database systems.