Specialist, Material Costing and Awards

Req

Remote Position:
No

Region:
Americas

Country:
Canada

State/Province:
Ontario

City:
Toronto

Functional Area:

Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Career Stream:
Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Role:
Specialist (SPE)

Job Title:

Specialist, Material Costing and Awards

Job Code: SPC-SCM-MCA

The Specialist, Material Costing and Awards receive, process, negotiate & submit material cost solutions for new business opportunities (bids & awards) & manage appropriate validation of customer re-pricing.

• Manages supplier RFQ process for specific Commodity group(s) across multiple projects to ensure all costing due dates are achieved.
• Lead component level supplier negotiations to establish competitive cost solutions.
• Drive supplier growth scorecard performance improvement.
• Commodity expertise – in depth knowledge of key commodity price drivers & sensitivities, performs general pricing & supply market trend analytics.
• Supplier expertise - understands key suppliers and develops effective supplier relationships
• Develop & execute commodity strategy including competitive benchmarking, delivering a commodity strategy enabling the overall program strategy, supplier analysis, development & selection.
• Able to identify and justify alternate component solutions.
• Able to provide competitive cost estimate for complex parts (Bid only)
• Provides insight and recommendations to support proposed solutions to key stakeholders.
• Updates material prices database, analyzes components for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives
• Updates material prices database, analyzes components for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives

• Excellent analytical, negotiation and problem resolution skills to enable ongoing incremental results
• Ability to proactively resolve issues & problems internally and externally
• Relentless focus on continuous improvement
• Delivers flawless execution with an effective management system
• Significant skills required in multi-tasking and time management
• Ability to effectively project manage, influence and motivate a diverse group of team members, potentially based in multiple countries
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers
• Excellent negotiation skills.
• Able to work assertively cross-functionally and with other sites to achieve objectives
• Supply Chain experience
  - Commercial aptitude & awareness at component, commodity level or industry level.
• Able to compare products and identify feature and technical differences.
• Read and can understand technical drawings
• Supplier Knowledge
  - Preferred Supplier Listings / Associated alternatives / Component Part Numbering / Franchised Distribution
• Strong technical experience with associated commodity
• Strong systems skills, including common office platforms such as MS Office and Access.
• Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required
• Overnight Travel :
  Occasional > 5% of the time

• 3 – 6 years experience (aligned to position seniority) in purchasing, commodity or engineering environment

• Bachelor’s degree in related field (Commerce or Engineering), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Supply Chain Management…