• Detail Job Description:
    • Develop a 3-year vision, strategy and organizational structure for assigned commodities. The strategy should enhance competitive differentiation and address commodity availability, quality and cost. Your focus area will be identification, development and qualification of local and regional suppliers in Asia with the Talus Supplier Quality team, and transition of supply from current suppliers in North America to Asia.
    • You & your team will be responsible for architecting and delivering a complete end to end strategy that supports 3-year horizon:
      • Supplier selection (Expansion & consolidation) that meet business needs.
      • Deliver & focus supplier investments (capacity and staff expansions) that are aligned with Talus needs.
      • Responsible for commercial negotiation that result in achieving annual objectives for cost, quality, lead time & flexibility.
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  • Profile Skills
    • Execute the vision and implement the strategy by gaining executive alignment and motivating and engaging the workforce to fulfill the vision.
    • Lead sourcing negotiations.
    • Drive business processes that enable effective prioritization and facilitate faster customer solutions.
    • Lead a local team of approximately 6 employees, including Supply Chain/Commodity managers and Business analysts.
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  • Managing in a complex environment:
    • Build and maintain a strong employee organization through strategic hiring, development, and performance management. Develop and execute the optimum geographic distribution of the organization to get the desired results most effectively.
    • Manage supplier relationships to deliver negotiated value.
    • Develop strong, collaborative and effective relationships with the internal product groups; including when supply chain and product group goals are opposing.
    • Be able to navigate Talus and supplier constraints such as source locking and changing suppliers.
    • Successfully operate across boundaries & prioritize the activities of the organization to achieve best in class results.
    • Develop and present meaningful and impactful messages to a wide array of audiences, both inside and outside Talus.
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  • Qualifications & Experience
    • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Operations or Engineering Equivalent, MBA or equivalent post graduate qualification desirable.
    • A minimum of 15 years of professional experience.
    • Has worked in a leadership role within a global manufacturing company with at least $500 million in revenue and supplier operations spread over multiple continents.
    • Has extensive experience interfacing with internal customers and suppliers and managing these relationships on product issue identification, problem resolution and total experience.
    • Demonstrated business orientation and proactive leadership that identifies and anticipates problems, issues, and risks to a project outcomes and manages those issue in advance of a critical situation.
    • Demonstrated success at using rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions.
    • Interpersonal and leadership skills across multiple cultures in North America and Asia.
    • Be able to lead & influence technically strong employees.
    • Operational background required.
    • Certification in Lean Six Sigma Master blackbelt desirable.
    • Experience in Semiconductor or High-Tech Industry preferred.
    • Managing or running contract manufacturers is a plus.