NPI​/TPI Buyer

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Job Summary To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a/an
** NPI/TPI Buyer
** located in
** Milpitas, CA.
** Reporting to the
** Materials Manager
** the
** NPI/TPI Buyer,
** will be purchasing coordination and implementation of ECO changes, new buy products, end-of-life products with suppliers in accordance with Customer specific requirements.
** What a typical day looks like:
*** Ensuring availability of parts for new products according to the required quality, delivery, and cost.
* Supplier selection in line with local goals and policies.
* Achieving continuous improvement in quality, delivery and costs of all purchased components and sub-assemblies.
* Manage supplier relations.
* Arrange correct documentation to ensure release of new product at each relevant milestone of the new product project.
* Send out initial orders and requests for quotations (RFQ).
* Maintenance the purchase price book and purchase orders in the system.
* Evaluate supplier quotations and make agreements on pricing, delivery, quality, capacities, etc.
* Organize and monitor initial samples.
* Monitor and help the start-up phase of each new component or sub-assembly.
* In case of quality problems negotiation with the competent manager or department.
* Continuously improve the quality, integral cost and delivery of all parts.
* Manage EOL parts.
* Looking for cost reduction possibilities, improve PPV.
* In charge of efficient communication flow about progress of every NPI/TPI/EOL/ECO related project within supply chain, CFT, and customer.
* Coordination transfers of new products in accordance with Customer specific requirements.
* Coordinating end-of-life process in accordance with Customer specific requirements (including minimizing obsolete, revaluation).
* Coordinating verification of new MPN/Supplier on production (First Article Inspection - FAI procedure).
* Purchasing material status for prototypes/pilots.
* Managing changes in deliveries status via rescheduling rules with Customer and negotiating minimized impact for Flex excess.
* Solving all material discrepancies related to parts delivered for prototypes/pilots with Customer.
* Should be able to read technical documentation (including 3D specifications/drawings).
* NPI - New Product Introduction (Flex site is the receiving site and the product has not been manufactured elsewhere in volume yet).
* TPI - Transfer Product Introduction (Flex Site is either the receiving or transfer out site; and the product has been manufactured in Volume).
* Monitoring of system accuracy in daily/weekly bases /General Item data/Item supplier information, Business Partner data, Data integrity, Data validation, System set up.
** The experience we’re looking to add to our team,
*** Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
* 3+ years of experience in materials or related field.
* Use of the following…