Materials Costing Solutions Specialist Sr

Materials Costing Solutions Specialist Sr

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Purpose Statement

Responsible for providing accurate and timely material pricing information to enable Plexus Corporation to provide industry competitive pricing quotations in support of current customers and new business development opportunities.

Key Job Accountabilities

• Obtain clear, detailed understanding of proposal strategy and communicate with the materials costing team. Identify the supplier of choice consistent with quote strategy and supply chain guidelines. Communicate with costing team to provide updated and advise material status throughout the costing cycle.
• Assume ownership for materials costing activity; providing competitive, accurate, material pricing by the established due date. Review competitiveness of quotation with reference to historical and standard pricing. Develop suggested QCs to meet margin objective while balancing customer cost needs. Work with site teams and customer management to implement suggested QCs and escalate if needed.
• Generate reports and prepare data in support of supplier feedback, workload analysis, key metrics as required. Ensure supplier data is maintained, as well as support data for total cost calculation, currency conversion and other miscellaneous maintenance activities.
• Manage repricing strategy for existing customers to ensure balance between competitiveness and margin. Implement standardized costing procedures to ensure consistent and repeatable cost outputs are generated on all opportunities. Ensure ECs are up to date and accurate. Coordinate communication with site FA's, materials team or commodity team on revision to ECs (where applicable). Manage customer ECN / EAU changes to ensure customer pricing reflect the latest material cost (where applicable).
• Provide mentoring and guidance to lower level technical staff. Assist in driving standardization and continuous improvement to tools / processes for assigned area.

Education / Experience Qualifications

Other Qualifications

Physical Requirements

Travel Requirements

Seniority Level

Not Applicable

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Other

Industries

Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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