New Business Quote Specialist

Req ID: 128540
Remote Position: Hybrid
Region: Americas
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto

**General Overview**:
**Functional Area**: FIN - Finance
**Career Stream**: DEC - Decision Support
**Role**: Specialist
**SAP Short Name**: SPE
**Job Title**: Customer Quote Specialist
**Job Code**: SPE-FIN-QUOT
**Job Level**: Band 08
**Direct/Indirect Indicator**: Indirect

**Summary**:
**Detailed Description**:
Performs tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:

- Key elements of the role include quote generation, which includes evaluation of inputs from related functions, generation of P&Ls and obtaining full sign-offs; mergers, acquisition and integration financial support; and project / process improvement (procedures, systems, tools, strategy, etc) support.
- The Customer Quote Specialist is also expected to consult with/support the Site Finance Analysts, to provide training to junior analysts, to support Global Pricing on costing and pricing activities and initiatives, and to lead and/or facilitate bid and/or business process re-engineering.

**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:

- Basic understanding of internal and external customer needs is required to make effective/informed decisions.
- Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
- Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
- Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
- Ability to bridge between actual, plan and forecast, analyzing mix impacts and summarizing in management reports.
- Provide recommendations based on interpretation of results.
- Ability to design/create queries and understands what creates the output.
- Creates basic spreadsheet macros.
- Ability to design custom queries in job-related software.
- Understanding of the relationships between the various tools.
- Understand how to use political structure in the organization and how to get things done using that structure.

**Physical Demands**:

- Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment
- Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data
- Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc)
- Occasional overnight travel may be required

**Typical Experience**:

- Three to six years of relevant experience

**Typical Education**:

- Bachelor's degree, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education experience may vary by geography.

**Notes**:
Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).

**COMPANY OVERVIEW**:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.