About this role
R esponsibilities:
- NPI Project Management
- SPOC for sourcing Activities for Assigned NPI project
- Ensure sourcing Project deliverables such as Quality, Delivery, Cost & Service deliverables are met for assigned project
- Active involvement in project planning
- Drive cross functional team to ensure sourcing process are followed.
- Product Cost Management at BOM level for all Commodities for the assigned project .
- Risk Mitigation -EOL / NRND / Globalization/Single source elim in ation /PSL adherence
- Ability to Drive and give direction in ambiguous situat ion
- NPI Sourcing Team Management
- BU lead for NPI Sourcing and Supply chain
- Address Escalation and prioritize Job among multiple tasks
- Handle a team of NPI Sourcing & Supply specialist if required.
- NPI Commodity Management:
- Support Assigned mechanical /Electronics commodities to all NPI projects .
- Capacity planning and Single source risk mitigation at NPI stage.
- Represent Enphase ’s needs to the industry and drive supplier partnerships to enable aligned investments
- Work with Enphase technical expert to define target candidate suppliers of Enphase NPIs based on Enphase commodity strategy
- Lead commercial related activities including RFI/RFQs, cost finalization etc , and perform commodity management role in activities leading by other functions to support NPI.
- Collaborate with Enphase Commodity experts and commodity team members drive best sourcing decisions based on TCO
- Understand current market pricing and dynamics of competitive landscape
- Define cost drivers, establish should cost and work with engineers to achieve Design-to-Cos
- Escalation point for NPI team on assigned commodity related issues, including delivery, quality, supplier support, etc.
- Strategy Development and Implementation
- Collaborate with Enphas e Global Commodity Manager –Sustaining and other commodity team members to define Enphase sourcing strategy.
- Implement commodity strategy during whole NPI lifecycle.
- Managing sourcing risks and create mitigation plan during whole NPI lifecycle.
- Contribute valuable inputs to supplier scorecard and business review, follow up responsible action points and drive supplier improvement continuously.
- Technology Management
- Align suppliers and Enphase technology roadmaps through understanding of market trends, Enphase future requirements and suppliers’ technology value proposition
- Develop suppliers to enable innovative products/solutions to align with Enphase roadmap
- Be trusted partner and thought leader to Enphase product and development team
- Minimum Qualifications: Demonstrated ability to drive and close cross-functional project initiatives with great skill of project management
- Minimum B E (Preferable Engineering, ME Engineering and/or MBA)
- 6- 12 years NPI/ Global Commodity Management, Manufacturing or Management experience in a industry . Strong background on NPI management will be a plus.
- Direct Experience in Assigned commodity
- Possesses strong technical and commercial knowledge on cost drivers
- Demonstrated leadership, collaboration and influencing skills
- Strong, positive, can-do attitude, self-motivated and directed .