SBM Specialist

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a leading semiconductor manufacturing equipment company that provides a world class solutions to the semiconductor industry.

Responsibilities

• Defines metrics and monitor supplier performance against these expectations to ensure continuous supplier improvement. Regularly evaluate quality and performance benchmarks, and the risks associated with the preferred supply base selection. 
• Continuously working on process improvement to deploy & develop best known methods related to procurement, inventory control (e.g., JIT, Kanban, min/max) & manufacturing strategies
• Encourages and coordinates early supplier involvement in highly technical and/or contractually complex new products parts design using the suppliers’ expertise to optimize quality and manufacturability.
• Established goals with supplier to ensure material delivery meet forecasted demand.
• Represents supplier business management on a cross-functional commodity teams that focuses on supply challenges, and to ensure internal/external customer needs are satisfied.
• Maintains current knowledge on relevant trends by personal contact, industry reports, trade journals, etc.
• Works with engineering and the supplier to resolve complex problem to ensure on time delivery of critical material to support customer and company requirements.
• Develops presentation, white papers, process flow charts to support continues process improvement projects.
• Works with supplier to monitors product cost preventing negative PPV and supporting cost reduction efforts.
• Drive the improvement of the remote factory suppliers’ manufacturing processes to ensure product quality and on-time-delivery

Requirements

Must have:

• Creative thinking and strong problem-solving capabilities
• Solid analytical and written/oral communication skills with ability to communicate cross-functionally and with various levels of the organization including Executives
• Solid understanding of statistical process control and basic statistical analysis used in production setting
• Good understanding of manufacturing processes
• Ability to learn new skills quickly with minimal guidance
• International & domestic travelling

Preferred:

• Lean six sigma experience
• Project Management / Team Lead experience
• Experience with working with global suppliers
• Effective verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Attentions to details

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited University a must
• Advanced degree (MBA) from accredited University preferred

Salary

6 - 10 million yen

Location

Tokyo