NPI/TPI Buyer

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To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add a/an NPI/TPI Buyer located in Milpitas, CA.

Reporting to the Materials Manager the NPI/TPI Buyer, will be purchasing coordination and implementation of ECO changes, new buy products, end-of-life products with suppliers in accordance with Customer specific requirements.

What a typical day looks like:

• Ensuring availability of parts for new products according to the required quality, delivery, and cost.
• Supplier selection in line with local goals and policies.
• Achieving continuous improvement in quality, delivery and costs of all purchased components and sub-assemblies.
• Manage supplier relations.
• Arrange correct documentation to ensure release of new product at each relevant milestone of the new product project.
• Send out initial orders and requests for quotations (RFQ).
• Maintenance the purchase price book and purchase orders in the system.
• Evaluate supplier quotations and make agreements on pricing, delivery, quality, capacities, etc.
• Organize and monitor initial samples.
• Monitor and help the start-up phase of each new component or sub-assembly.
• In case of quality problems negotiation with the competent manager or department.
• Continuously improve the quality, integral cost and delivery of all parts.
• Manage EOL parts.
• Looking for cost reduction possibilities, improve PPV.
• In charge of efficient communication flow about progress of every NPI/TPI/EOL/ECO related project within supply chain, CFT, and customer.
• Coordination transfers of new products in accordance with Customer specific requirements.
• Coordinating end-of-life process in accordance with Customer specific requirements (including minimizing obsolete, revaluation).
• Coordinating verification of new MPN/Supplier on production (First Article Inspection - FAI procedure).
• Purchasing material status for prototypes/pilots.
• Managing changes in deliveries status via rescheduling rules with Customer and negotiating minimized impact for Flex excess.
• Solving all material discrepancies related to parts delivered for prototypes/pilots with Customer.
• Should be able to read technical documentation (including 3D specifications/drawings).
• NPI - New Product Introduction (Flex site is the receiving site and the product has not been manufactured elsewhere in volume yet).
• TPI - Transfer Product Introduction (Flex Site is either the receiving or transfer out site; and the product has been manufactured in Volume).
• Monitoring of system accuracy in daily/weekly bases /General Item data/Item supplier information, Business Partner data, Data integrity, Data validation, System set up.
  
  

The experience we’re looking to add to our team,

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• 3 years of experience in materials or related field.
• Use of the following tools may be required: Working usage of Word, Excel and Power Point, ERP software.
• Ability to effectively present information and update questions from groups.
• Ability to apply common sense comprehension to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form.
• Mechanical and electrical components
• Background in electronics manufacturing is desired.
  
  

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