Supplier Commodity Manager - PCB

Cisco Systems

  • Taipei City
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 7 days ago
Meet the Team:Cisco Global Supplier Management (GSM) team is seeking a motivated Supplier Commodity Manager for the PCB commodity. You will be part of a highly impactful and dynamic organization collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers enabling Cisco's business.Your impact:Position Responsibilities:
  • PCB sub-tier laminate supplier management and development: building strong business relationships with key suppliers monitoring their performance, and addressing any issues.
  • Market Analysis: Tracking PCB and laminate market trends, price fluctuations, and supply chain disruptions to anticipate potential risks and opportunities. Identifying and prepare data driven industry sensing reports for the assigned technologies.
  • Commodity Strategy: Developing and executing on the agreed upon Commodity Strategy for the assigned technologies and suppliers.
  • Operational Management: Enabling the best industry cost, supply capacity, supply flexibility, best quality, material delivery etc. Manage life cycle of the component, other operational activities.
  • Negotiation & Request for Quote: Leading and delivering the Quarter over Quarter cost reductions.
  • Contract Negotiation: Negotiate and complete the legal contracts, such as, Master Purchase Agreement, Statement of Work, Letter of Agreements and any other legal contracts with the suppliers.
  • Supplier Selection & Evaluation: Choose suppliers that can meet Cisco's supply chain needs. Assess the supplier's strengths and weaknesses using criteria like technology, innovation, cost, quality, supply capacity, financial health, sustainability, etc.
  • Resiliency: Work with the suppliers to enable the Non-China Manufacturing location(s) to enable supply chain resiliency.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • BS or equivalent with 8+ years of relevant experience.
  • Experience in PCB commodity sub-tier material laminate management, supply chain operations, business, supplier management.
  • Experience evaluating market trends of PCB and laminate, supplier data, and ability to translate to business outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Extensive business strategy and implementation knowledge
  • Strong interpersonal communication and relationship management skills
  • Relevant certifications contract management, or supply chain
  • Thorough understanding of commodity markets, price fluctuations, and factors influencing market dynamics
Why Cisco?At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future.Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.U.S. employees have to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco's flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco's Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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