Responsibilities
- Support the creation of the supply plan, optimizing capacity utilization, ensuring business goals are achieved, and driving timely & accurate supply communications
- Publish build plan to suppliers, monitor lead times and track production schedules against plan, proactively managing all deviations & mitigating risks to meeting the supply commitment
- Mitigate supply risks and drive manufacturing & operations improvement through vendor capability assessments and streamlining supplier processes to mitigate disruption
- Monitor geopolitical market conditions, technology roadmaps and identify supply/demand challenges and opportunities
- Ensure supply chain operational readiness for new equipment, new suppliers and new geographies
- Support Geo Program Delivery Leads, Construction teams and General Contractors to resolve unforeseen delivery issues, drive site prioritization and lock schedules
- Support demand managers and procurement team to determine and execute an optimal fulfillment of the supply plan
- Partner with the Sourcing & Quality teams to define category strategies, business allocation plans and to hold performance reviews for suppliers as part of the Integrated Product Teams
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implementation & adopt new capabilities, and work to improve data systems & metrics to enhance supply visibility & accuracy
- Manage and cultivate supplier relationships focused on continuous performance improvement
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, engineering, or supply chain management, or equivalent
- 4+ years of experience in supply chain fulfillment operations (forecasting, demand management, supply planning, order management, MPS/MRP, inventory control, logistics)
- Experience managing supplier performance
- Experience in collecting and analyzing information, problem-solve and driving solutions
- Skilled in risk management and risk mitigation
- Effective communication, effective cross-functional collaboration, and a bias for action to close out problems and mitigate risks
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s in Business Administration or Engineering
- Business knowledge and previous experience in Fiber and Cabling Infrastructure
- Prior experience in networking, cloud industry or related field
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