Description:
Infineon’s business Manufacturing manager is responsible for all business aspects related to sourced power module components including but not limited to substrates, capacitors, inductors, resistors, heatsinks, connectors or headers. The BMM works with vendors to ensure all components meet product line requirements for cost, delivery/supply and quality.
Job Description
In your new role you will:
Vendor Development/Management
- Develop partnerships and negotiate long term contracts for supply and cost
- Facilitate executive relationships between Infineon and vendors
- Driver technical roadmap exchange
- Develop an Approved Vendor List for all vendor supplied components and drive AVL usage within the engineering organization
- Facilitate negotiation between Infineon and suppliers to set expectations and resolve business difficulties
- Drive social and environmental responsibility with Infineon’s vendor base including ensuring that vendors adhere to standards consistent with Infineon’s ethics, as well as implementing sustainable practices throughout the supply chain
Cost
- Drive quotations for samples
- Negotiate NRE and tooling
- Provide cost information to PJO/PJM
- Develop second source vendors for all component and utilize competition to drive down cost
- Drive cost reduction activities among vendors and facilitate activities with component engineering to drive down module cost
- Work with component engineering to standardize component specifications to create manufacturing efficiencies
Delivery
- Set samples delivery and expectations
- Resolve priority issues for sample delivery
- Coordinate pull-ins
- Escalate issue resolution, engage component engineering to drive closure
- Coordinate transition from development to production
- Coordinate vendor capacity and scaling capabilities
- Assess vendor manufacturing readiness and manage risk assessment for project management including: identifying potential risks, developing mitigation strategies, implementing contingency plans.
Quality
- Run vendor factory audits
- Drive root cause investigation on quality issues, engage component engineering where necessary
- Develop a scorecard for vendors, poll internal stakeholders to assess vendors based on roadmap, delivery, cost, quality
- Run annual scorecard reviews with strategic vendors
- Drive improvements within the vendor organization
- Create quarterly report which includes: Top 10 vendors by spend, Top issues by vendor, Top production/manufacturability issues and recommendations for improvement, Vendor trends and areas of improvement
- Develop metrics for assessing supplier quality and overall performance
Your Profile
You are best equipped for this task if you have:
- Business degree required, experience in international business preferred
- Significant experience in vendor management, power components preferred
- Good negotiation skills
- Strong communication – able to hold an executive presence
- Willingness to travel >50% of the time
- Strong background in component management
- Project management skills
- Leadership skills to influence teams to follow good manufacturing practices