NPI Materials Program Manager
Spectraforce
Cupertino, California
5 days ago
Job Description
Job Title: NPI Materials Program Manager
Location: Cupertino,CA / Austin TX (Hybrid-3 days Onsite)
Duration: 5+ Months
Job Summary
Great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. A successful NPI Materials Program Manager is a natural leader and facilitator; is driven, organized, detail oriented and a supply chain expert; excels in program/project management; thrives in an ambiguous environment; is an innovator and strives for continuous improvement in all aspects of the role; manages through relationships and influence.
Job Description:
This role is responsible for material planning, forecasting, and readiness to enable technology development, new product development, supply qualification and factory readiness. This role is a primary interface between Engineering, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Supplier/Manufacturing Partner(s).
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $78.00/hr.
Location: Cupertino,CA / Austin TX (Hybrid-3 days Onsite)
Duration: 5+ Months
Job Summary
Great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. A successful NPI Materials Program Manager is a natural leader and facilitator; is driven, organized, detail oriented and a supply chain expert; excels in program/project management; thrives in an ambiguous environment; is an innovator and strives for continuous improvement in all aspects of the role; manages through relationships and influence.
Job Description:
This role is responsible for material planning, forecasting, and readiness to enable technology development, new product development, supply qualification and factory readiness. This role is a primary interface between Engineering, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Supplier/Manufacturing Partner(s).
- Lead materials budget planning and spend management through partnering with Finance and Engineering.
- Lead clear to build (CTB) for pre-production build phases.
- Propose optimized supply planning to ensure on-time build schedule. Drive closure of materials issues.
- Work closely with Engineering to manage multiple or alternate source qualifications through build management.
- Lead NPI materials process improvement.
- Lead daily or weekly supply planning meetings with Manufacturer Partners.
- BS/BA with 3 - 5 years or comparable professional experience.
- NPI (New Product Introduction) supply chain management experience.
- Project/Program management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Detailed oriented and excellent organizational skills.
- Demonstrated ability/experience working in constantly changing environment.
- Ability to multi-task and set priorities.
- Proficiency in Excel.
- Technical expertise and prior OEM management experience a plus.
- Knowledge in Agile, SAP, Oracle, Numbers, Keynote, and Pages a plus.
- PMP, APICS, CSCP or CPIM a plus.
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $78.00/hr.