KLA Sr NPI Supply Chain Manager 

Israel, North District 

62336944

Job Description

Main responsibilities:

• Act as primary liaison between KLA Supply Chain organization and all internal and external partners for all covered programs.
• Drive and support new product cost targets, project milestone dates
• Drive all Supply Chain PLC deliverables throughout the product design phases, until the release to mass production (Phase 6a) such as:
  • Definition and execution of sourcing strategies, including detailed quotative and qualitative analysis such as Buy Vs. Make & InSource Vs. OutSource
  • Drive competitive bids for BOM items to achieve cost and time targets
  • Negotiate contracts with strategic vendors such as Development, Purchasing and Long-Lead items Agreements
  • Drive and monitor material procurement to support prototype, Beta and pre-production tools
  • Drive and lead ECO implementations until Phase 6a (Mass Production) phase
• Own all material related program risks and driver: identification, mitigation, management and communication across KLA organization.
• Employ supply chain management standard methodologies to secure uninterrupted supply.
• Coordinate supplier new product forecast communication to ensure short and long term visibility is available for supplier capacity and delivery planning.
• Ensure that efficient inventory levels of commodities are established to meet production launch requirements.
• Build supply chain strategies with materials team for new products; work with cross functional team to approve new key suppliers
• Set standards for efficiency improvements by effectively deploy process improvement and work standardization

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Level Degree and related work experience of 4 years
• Proven track record in project management and leading multi-disciplinary team with experience on: Defining and implementing supply chain sourcing strategies,Material planning, master scheduling and forecasting, trategic supplier management including QBRs/PRRs
• Experience in collaborating with suppliers on industrialization targets
• Experience in out-of-the-box creative problem solving
• Experience in bottleneck management of manufacturing processes
• Ability to improve efficiency and effectivity in technical production environment

Skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills for interacting with other sectors and suppliers
• The drive, energy and initiative to achieve continuous improvement
• Partner management: deal effectively with all collaborators both at operational and executive levels
• Strong business sense enabling efficient balancing of partners' interests
• Pro-active problem solver, action and result oriented
• Collaborative personality able to organize cross functional cooperation
• Able to coach team members
• Excellent professional communication in English.
• Strong experience with all Microsoft Office Software: Excel, Power Point, Project, Word
• Travel required: 10-20%