VIRTEX

Director

• Develop and manage the external supply base in Accordance with Virtex Supply Chain standards and policies.
• Establish and maintain requirements for Supplier performance: quality, reliability, cost, delivery and responsiveness to continuously improve our supply chain.
• Work with staff to ensure Supplier Management plan is executed.
• Develop and implement supply chain wide plans and programs.
• Develop and implement business strategies around supply chain consolidation, cost reduction, quality improvement, as well as supplier assessment.
• Manage supplier activities to ensure appropriate supplier selection; startup, production ramp, and procedures such as first articles, packing definition, quality definition, print quality, etc. are followed.
• Support Lean Manufacturing concepts and initiatives with manufacturing partners.
• Negotiate and procure contracts and services based on long-term volume planning with planning and suppliers and handle conflicts or questions on prices, deliveries, and specifications.
• Monitor supplier performance and establish quantifiable metrics/requirements.
• Establish goals and implementation action plans to support business level vision.
• Prepare and issue reports to monitor the effectiveness of material replenishment systems operations.
• Ensure that ownership and alignment are achieved between external and internal partners to meet cost and schedule goals.
• Minimize inventory throughout the supply chain, while optimizing product availability.
• Provide external commodity supply base information critical to make/buy analysis, estimating, and commodity cost management.
• Manage purchase order placement and ensure minimized buyer to purchase order cycle time.
• Drive new product introduction planning and associated supplied product obsolescence and change activities.
• Advise management of issues that will impact production and drive coordination of appropriate corrective action when necessary.
• Ensure ISO compliance for all processes related to materials management.
• Participate in business enterprise system changes to improve planning, supplier management and execution of orders while simultaneously minimizing plant inventory.
• Ensure supplier assessment is documented and reviewed with key suppliers.

Materials Director