Global Procurement Manager PMR Direct Products

Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Product Procurement, you as a Procurement Manager PMR Direct Products will be responsible for global leadership of Contract manufacturing categories (PFR) within the Industrial Business Unit. 

Key responsibilities include :                                                                                                                      - Conduct market analysis worldwide for different products / categories in a contract manufacturing environment .      - Excellent communication and negotiation skills—with proven success in building vendor relationships, collaborating cross-functionally, and managing multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.  - Prioritizes re-location projects in collaboration with stakeholders and ensures team goals and objectives are achieved.

- This position will require travel within North America , Asia & Europe. 

About Your Job:

• Conduct supplier and market analysis to identify trends , risk, opportunities. Strong analytical skills and product solving ability. Been able to develop a deep cost control methodology. (30%)

• Conduct accurate and  financial analyses for a Make vs Buy costs. Plan, Drive & Execute Change of supplier, product introduction projects. (30%)

• Conducts negotiations, leveraging advanced negotiating capabilities to successfully achieve business outcomes with the objective of GP improvements. (15%)

• Managing overall supplier relationships including supplier performance, capabilities, manufacture contracting management & risk mitigation. (10%)

• Collaborating with PM , Engineering  and business stakeholders on new product introduction programs to define standard and custom product requirements to ensure that sourcing strategies are meet on cost and business objectives (Revenue Growth). (15%)

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, statistics or equivalent.

• 10+ years of experience in supply chain, commodity management, and supplier management or global manufacturing environment.

• Strong communication skill, rich project management skill.

• Self-management skills and self-started attitude highly valued

• Able to lead cross-funtional team to work towards KPI and goals

• Ability to interact and engage with peers with good communication skills.

• Ability to review and understand engineering requirements and design documents for electronics. Ability to decomposite electronics BOM and translate them into cost.

• Experience developing, leading, and executing global supplier cost, risk, and lead time reduction strategies

• Experience working with teams located in diverse regions (Europe & Asia).

• English fluent verbally and written is a must.

• Proficiency with ERP, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

• Experience managing SAP.