Onsite - Tempe, AZ

$53- $67.50 per hr

8 month extendable CONTRACT

MUST HAVE:

• Bachelors degree required
• 7+ years of sourcing experience
• SAP experience
• Pharma, biotech or medical device industry experience preferred

A Day in the Life

In this role, you will participate and/or lead Sourcing strategic activities, especially those involving product life cycle and supplier management including but not limited to: product/part phase in-phase, Last time buy/Strategic and excess & obsolete processes, local sourcing related initiatives, supplier delivery performance and inventory management. You will also support commodity management in pricing, terms & conditions, and quality agreements with key strategic suppliers.

You will:

• Maintain and promote strong relationships with Suppliers, Operations Scheduling, Supply Network Planning, Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, Operations Quality, Category Management and any other internal customers;
• Attend in-plant production meetings (Tier Reviews) - report status of key material issues/updates;
• Participate in Tier Escalation Meetings with Functional and Site Leaders;
• Develop and/or use existing tools/process (like Shortage Reports and/Clear2Build) to identify future component shortage risk and mitigate;
• Communicate effectively unmitigated component shortages to stakeholders to ensure Operational mitigations are implemented to minimize Operations impact;
• Attend Master Production Schedule (MPS) consensus meeting and communicate changes to Suppliers;
• Monitor Strategic Inventory Purchases (SIP) / Last Time Buys (LTB) management and maintain tracking files;
• Provide updates on Purchase Price Variance report;
• Provide inventory reserve file updates;
• Meet with shared services (Engineer / NPD), Material / Resin, Tooling Management to track completion of Projects that ensure Supply Continuity;
• Support audits: Initiate supplier selection related audits (Contact/schedule) & site support for regulatory body audits;
• Manage or support supplier capacity management initiatives to meet long term Requirements;
• Manage and effectively communicate critical and on going delivery issues
• Supports standard cost setting
• Performs special projects as assigned including but not limited to: new product introductions, the coordination of phase out activities and material cost reduction initiatives (PPV);
• Support excess and obsolescence process and raw material disposition at sites as needed;
• Provide guidance on site prioritization on conflicting situations;
• Attend/provide feedback for Supplier Relationship Management meetings (as applicable);
• Perform special projects as assigned including but not limited to: Lifecycle Management, supports material cost reduction initiatives;
• Participate in Cash Flow Initiatives
• Create and present monthly and quarterly Procurement key performance indicator reviews;
• Lead periodic Supplier Performance meetings, including content/scorecard development;
• If applicable, liaison with the Category Management in the development of Category strategies, inputs and discussions about supplier performance scorecard and performance reviews (Quarterly Business Reviews).