What you will learn and contribute to:

The Component Strategy and Supply organization plays an integral role in the success of Network Infrastructure’s component supply chain efficiency. The team has an end-to-end focus, from developing sourcing strategies and driving buffer requirements, to managing component hub partners and collaborating with suppliers to solve critical shortages.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or related field
• Minimum 5 years of relevant electronic industry experience in a Purchasing or Supply Chain role
• Experience with inventory management and financial forecasting
• Excellent communication (written and oral), and interpersonal skills
• Ability to collaborate efficiently with cross-functional teams (Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance)
• Experience with material requirement planning/enterprise resource planning systems
• Analytical thinking; detail-oriented personality with data-driven decision-making abilities
• Advanced skills in the Microsoft Office suite, with a focus on Excel, Power BI & PowerPoint
• Ability to prioritize, multitask, and work under the pressure of tight time constraints

Key Roles and Responsibilities Size buffers for Strategic Inventory (SI)

• Collaborate with Supply Chain teams to ensure data availability
• Align with the analytics team to consolidate and produce data templates
• Assess the demand plan accuracy status, quarter over quarter, and report significant shifts to the Supply Chain for validation
• Analyze data and collaborate with demand planning to ensure risk measures are set correctly
• Prepare the review package and present to senior management
• Collaborate with the analytics team to continue automation and improvement of the SI tool

Manage critical inventory levels

• Calculate and analyze critical components levels and identify potential shortages or surpluses
• Produce the safety stock quantities
• Communicate with buyers at the Hubs and Nokia to fulfill safety stock requirements
• Manage the obsolete and excess materials and develop strategies for disposition
• Analyze Aging material and manage material swapping and refreshing date codes
• Collaborate with the analytics team to continue automation of
• Inventory management tool

Provide inventory forecasting to Finance

• Report strategic material movements for the next 24 months for the different categories:
• On Book Material
• Off Book material at Hubs
• Prepaid material at Hubs and Nokia
• Report any planned strategy changes or allocations
• Meet with Finance for review

Provide E&O forecasting into Finance

Identify E&O material for:

• On Book Inventory
• Off Book Inventory
• Prepaid Inventory
• Allocate reserves and Inform finance of the forecast and reasoning
• Meet with finance for review
• Collaborate with the Material management team for the best open market opportunities
• Collaborate with the warehouse on deposition strategy for scrap material