Business Manufacturing Manager
- San Jose, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
In your new role you will:Vendor Development/Management
- Develop partnerships and negotiate long term contracts for supply and cost
- Facilitate executive relationships between Infineon and vendors
- Driver technical roadmap exchange
- Develop an Approved Vendor List for all vendor supplied components and drive AVL usage within the engineering organization
- Facilitate negotiation between Infineon and suppliers to set expectations and resolve business difficulties
- Drive social and environmental responsibility with Infineon's vendor base including ensuring that vendors adhere to standards consistent with Infineon's ethics, as well as implementing sustainable practices throughout the supply chain
- Drive quotations for samples
- Negotiate NRE and tooling
- Provide cost information to PJO/PJM
- Develop second source vendors for all component and utilize competition to drive down cost
- Drive cost reduction activities among vendors and facilitate activities with component engineering to drive down module cost
- Work with component engineering to standardize component specifications to create manufacturing efficiencies
- Set samples delivery and expectations
- Resolve priority issues for sample delivery
- Coordinate pull-ins
- Escalate issue resolution, engage component engineering to drive closure
- Coordinate transition from development to production
- Coordinate vendor capacity and scaling capabilities
- Assess vendor manufacturing readiness and manage risk assessment for project management including: identifying potential risks, developing mitigation strategies, implementing contingency plans.
- Run vendor factory audits
- Drive root cause investigation on quality issues, engage component engineering where necessary
- Develop a scorecard for vendors, poll internal stakeholders to assess vendors based on roadmap, delivery, cost, quality
- Run annual scorecard reviews with strategic vendors
- Drive improvements within the vendor organization
- Create quarterly report which includes: Top 10 vendors by spend, Top issues by vendor, Top production/manufacturability issues and recommendations for improvement, Vendor trends and areas of improvement
- Develop metrics for assessing supplier quality and overall performance
You are best equipped for this task if you have:
- Business degree required, experience in international business preferred
- Significant experience in vendor management, power components preferred
- Good negotiation skills
- Strong communication - able to hold an executive presence
- Willingness to travel
- Project management skills
- Leadership skills to influence teams to follow good manufacturing practices
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As a global leader in semiconductor solutions in power systems and IoT, Infineon enables game-changing solutions for green and efficient energy, clean and safe mobility, as well as smart and secure IoT. Together, we drive innovation and customer success, while caring for our people and empowering them to reach ambitious goals. Be a part of making life easier, safer and greener.
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for more information about Diversity & Inclusion at Infineon.Driving decarbonization and digitalization. Together.Infineon Technologies Americas Corp., is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws.Employment at Infineon is contingent upon proof of your legal right to work in the United States under applicable law, verification of satisfactory references and successful completion of a background check and drug test, and signing all your on-boarding documents.In some instances, if applicable, U.S. export control laws require that Infineon obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing technologies to certain persons. This offer is contingent upon Infineon's ability to satisfy these export control laws as related to your employment and anticipated job activities. The decision whether or not to submit and/or pursue an export license to satisfy this contingency, if applicable, shall be at Infineon's sole discretion.Infineon Technologies takes data privacy and identity theft very seriously. As such, we do not request personally-identifiable information (PII) from applicants over the internet or electronically. Please kindly refrain from disclosing your PII electronically during the application process or to unauthorized websites that may purport to be Infineon or any of our affiliates.Wage range that the company expects to pay for a qualified candidate:
San Jose CA Minimum of $140,700 per year and maximum of $ 193,500 per year.
El Segundo CA Minimum of $128,200 per year and maximum of $ 176,200 per year.In addition, all full-time employees will be eligible to participate in an incentive plan#LI-ET1