Supply Chain Program Manager
In this role you will support the production of the Optical System products at our partner EMS & Vendors mainly located in SE & S Asia . You will work closely with R&D, Product Line managers (PLM), Procurement, Engineering, Compliance Certification & Logistics organizations located in different countries, including India, USA, Canada, Italy, Germany. You are expected to be familiar with a structured Product Life cycle Milestones driven approach from engineering concept stage to mass production in Telcom / High Tech industry.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal English communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills. Prefer education majors to be in Engineering, Supply Chain / Business Operations, Management but others will be considered with relevant experience.
- Knowledge of supply chain and manufacturing operations roles & responsibilities in Mass Production of an Optical / Electro mechanical Hardware product following a structured phase gate review process.
- Preferred knowledge of project planning; engineering drawings; manufacturing Bills of Materials (BOMs) and change management processes within Product Data Management (PDM) systems; forecasting; demand and supply planning; material requirements planning (MRP); purchasing; and product costing.
- Preferred advanced understanding of electronic and optical manufacturing processes, with a solid general knowledge of electronic and optical testing methodologies.
- Familiarity with electronic, optical, and mechanical components, as well as telecommunications systems, products, and technologies, is highly desirable.
- Willingness to be present near to our production factory
Responsibilities
- Program manage Nokia contract manufacturers & OEM vendors regarding mass product.
Coordinates cross-functional teams through regular meetings to ensure mass production shipment scheduling.
- Represent Supply Chain Program Management (SC PM) with other Nokia organizations like R&D, PLM, Procurement, Product Engineering, EMS Mgmt, Logistics etc.
- Serve as First level escalation point to resolve timely delivery of production output due to capacity & technical issues.
- Drives ongoing product cost analysis, cost reduction projects in support of product cost targets.
- Drives BOM reviews and pursues Supply Chain risk mitigation strategies via 2nd sourcing, buffer stock proposal, Long Lead Item procurement etc.
- Prepare & present relevant and necessary content in the prescribed format for product life cycle milestone reviews & approvals, sync'up meetings.
- Resolve operational issues out of production runs in cross-functional teams (Product Engineering, Test Engineering, R&D, PLM, Procurement, Quality, Manufacturing).
- Works to ensure all change activity (ECN, variances, deviations, Special Build Requests) is implemented accurately and effectively to support the program schedule.
- Lead project plans related to "Product Transfers" between different EMS partners and / or between Internal factory to EMS partner.
- Special projects assigned by Management.