Roles & Responsibilities
• Supplier Relationship Management: Is the Go-To person for any new business evaluations, develops and sustains relationships with the contract manufacturers.
• Contract Manufacturer Selection: Source and evaluate potential contract manufacturers based on their capabilities, capacity, cost competitiveness and alignment with ASMPT’s strategic objectives.
• Contract Negotiations: Prepare and negotiate strategic vendor contracts for long term partnership to deliver business needs (e.g., capacity assurance, pricing, quality, inventory etc.)
• Capacity / Production Planning: Collaborate with cross-functional ASMPT S&OP teams and CMs to develop production schedules that meet inventory, lead-time, and delivery requirements. Align S&OP plans between ASMPT & CM; collaborate to de-escalate capacity or supply risks if any. Plan for provisions in CM capacity surge to support ramp cycles.
• Qualification: Establish stringent qualification plan with QA for CMs to ensure CMs meet ASMPT’s standards (training, copy-exact transfer, FAI and PPAP).
• Quality Assurance: Establish quality control processes with QA and ensure CMs’ adhere to strict quality, safety, trade, legal and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Performance Management: Establish & implement KPIs and metrics to assess the performance of CMs, regularly reviewing performance, taking corrective actions as necessary.
• Continuous Improvement: Track production unit costs, support CMs on process and cost efficiency improvements while maintaining high quality standards.
• Change Management: Advocate clear change management process to govern, track and qualify all changes made to the form, fit and function of the product.
• Project Management: Coordinate across various internal and external stakeholders to align and progress per plan to achieve the desired outcomes. Escalate and mitigate business critical risks.
• Industry Knowledge: Stays abreast with industry and policy changes and identifies implications and opportunities for his/her area of contract manufacturing.
• Business Planning: Participates in annual business planning process, provides monthly estimated actual on projected and actual spending, maintains a multiyear capital plan/budget.
Requirements
• Tertiary qualifications (Bachelor’s) in supply chain mgmt., engineering, business, or related fields
• >10 years of experience in commercial/business AND manufacturing (ops, quality, technology, planning) function required. Proven leadership experience in leading technical/resident engineers
• Experience in External and Contract Manufacturing, Supply Chain Processes & Quality Management. Proficiency in Mechanical and Electrical/Electronic Drawings is a plus.
• Experience in capital equipment contract manufacturing highly desirable, particularly dealing with contract management, operation/delivery management and quality management.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills; mature, pleasant, and highly energetic personality.
• Analytical mindset with ability to make data-driven decisions and problem solve.
• Willingness to travel within SEA, East Asia to visit CMs and any other countries as needed.
