Associate, Material Pricing

Req ID: 116454
Remote Position: Hybrid
Region: Americas
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto

We are currently seeking an **Associate, Material Pricing **based out of **Toronto. **This opportunity offers an ideal environment to learn and grow. In this role you will build your experience by being exposed to a wide cross-section of business functions and customer teams while working on strategic business opportunities and improvements. The role offers an opportunity to become a leader in a global organization, leveraging technology and analytics to drive real value to both Celestica and our Customers.

**Preferred Skills**:

- Understanding of general aerospace products and industry
- Basic manufacturing system knowledge
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to prioritize and work on several tasks at the same time
- Knowledge in Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
- Experience working with macros is considered an asset

**Activities**:

- Receive, review and understand product data packages from our external customers.
Send and negotiate quote tenders with suppliers to establish cost and set pricing
Interface with manufacturing and supply chain teams to prioritize engineering changes and data setup based on production schedule.
Complete bill of material, component and assembly data set up within Celestica's internal databases to enable material procurement and manufacturing.
Communicate with external customers to resolve missing and/or inaccurate data.
- Manages customer pricing proposals and maintains historical Database of quotes
- Supports precise cost estimating using historical data, as well as estimating costs of parts
- Coordinates and manages the material cost activity for select customers and/or sites
- Prepares material pricing independently for new business opportunities (bids) including generation of Bill of Material, cost analysis, negotiation with suppliers, collaboration with Commodity Management and presentation to team leaders and managers.
- Updates material prices database and analyzes Bill of Material for competitiveness.
- Negotiates with suppliers on RFI tenders.
- Participates in kick-off meetings and interacts with global customer’s units as well as counterparts in other regions.
- Audits and analyzes quarterly cost variances.
- Consolidates, tabulates, analyzes and reports on various topics, commitments and performance metrics.
Work with multi-disciplinary teams on continuous improvement initiatives as necessary to enhance processes to meet cost, quality, and delivery.
Work guided by detailed instructions, routine, procedure and under close supervision. Will receive detailed instructions on all work assignments.
Opportunity on more complex duties as proficiency improves.
Deals directly with immediate supervisor, co-workers and team members with guidance.
Research Aerospace customers’ products and market trends.

**Physical Demands, duties of this position are varied and will include**:

- Duties of this position are performed in a normal office with exposure to manufacturing environments.
- 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.).

**Area**:Aerospace and Defense

**Experience**:

- Two to four years relevant experience.

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s degree in related field (Business or Engineering), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience

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