NPI​/TPI Buyer

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.

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.

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add an NPI/TPI Buyer 3 to our Global Procurement & Supply Chain team.

Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, the NPI/TPI Buyer 3 will play a critical role in managing material readiness and supplier engagement for New Product Introductions (NPI), Transfer Product Introductions (TPI), Engineering Change Orders (ECO), and End-of-Life (EOL) activities. This role offers the opportunity to work cross-functionally with engineering, program management, manufacturing, and suppliers to ensure successful product launches, transfers, and lifecycle management while driving cost, quality, and delivery performance.

• Lead procurement activities supporting NPI, TPI, ECO, and EOL programs to ensure material availability, cost competitiveness, and timely execution of project milestones.
• Coordinate supplier sourcing, RFQs, quotations, and negotiations while evaluating supplier capabilities, pricing, quality, capacity, and delivery performance.
• Collaborate with customers, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to manage engineering changes, product transfers, approved manufacturer lists (AMLs), and first article qualification activities.
• Monitor prototype and pilot material status, resolve material discrepancies, and drive corrective actions to support successful production readiness.
• Analyze supply chain risks, identify cost reduction opportunities, improve purchase price variance (PPV), and maintain accurate purchasing and supplier data within enterprise systems.

• Strong procurement, sourcing, negotiation, and supplier management skills in a manufacturing environment.
• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in purchasing, materials management, supply chain, or a related field.
• Experience supporting new product introductions, product transfers, engineering changes, and product lifecycle management activities.
• Advanced understanding of procurement processes, supplier qualification, RFQ management, cost analysis, and supply chain operations.
• Ability to read and interpret technical documentation, drawings, bills of materials, and engineering change documentation.
• Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Office applications, including advanced Excel skills.
• Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and project coordination abilities.
• Experience with in electronics manufacturing services (EMS) or high-technology manufacturing environments is preferred.

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