The Senior Manager, Global Supply Chain is a cross-functional leader responsible for supplier performance across multiple sites, capacity planning, risk mitigation, and technology readiness. This role ensures end-to-end operational excellence by partnering with various teams to maintain resilient and high-performing supplier ecosystems.
Requirements
- Serves as the primary operational and performance liaison between Celestica’s factories and global suppliers.
- Leads supplier collaboration on forecast accuracy, capacity planning, and production readiness.
- Uses analytics and predictive tools to translate internal forecasts into actionable supplier capacity plans.
- Collaborates with suppliers and internal stakeholders to manage long-lead items, buffer strategies, and build plans.
- Maintains a proactive risk register for supplier capacity, quality, and geopolitical exposure.
- Drives business continuity planning (BCP) with suppliers and internal teams to respond quickly to disruptions.
- Tracks recovery and escalation metrics through defined governance forums.
- Partners with global manufacturing and NPI teams to ensure supplier and site capacity models align with customer demand and new product introduction (NPI) timelines.
- Assesses supplier tooling, test equipment, and automation readiness to support forecasted volume growth.
- Supports ramp-to-mass production transitions, verifying supplier capability and logistics readiness.
- Leads capacity expansion initiatives, ensuring global alignment on tooling, test equipment, and automation roadmaps.
- Regularly reassesses supplier capacity to align with evolving market demands and product life cycle phases.
- Communicates supply priorities through QBRs, daily calls, and cross-functional alignment sessions.
- Leads corrective action planning with SQE/GCE and SCM for supplier quality and performance issues.
- Drives process improvements in lead time reduction, delivery adherence, and yield improvement.
- Partners with Engineering and Commodity Management to identify and qualify new technologies and manufacturing processes from suppliers.
- Supports supplier readiness for next-generation products and emerging manufacturing trends.
- Ensures supplier scalability for future programs by validating process capability and technology maturity.
- Collaborates daily with Commodity Managers (GCMs), Supply Chain Managers (SCMs), Program Managers, and Operations to align on supplier performance, capacity, and readiness.
- Provides visibility on supplier health, material flow, and risk to executive stakeholders.
- Escalate issues with clear root-cause analysis and corrective actions, ensuring alignment across teams.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
