Senior Advisor, Procurement - #1171066

Senior Advisor, Procurement (Commodity Management)

Commodity Cost Managers at the Senior Advisor level at Dell Technologies lead a very fast paced and fulfilling professional life. The role includes development of the sourcing strategy, ensuring its alignment with the overall strategy of Dell Technologies and Global Operations. The successful individuals

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Senior Advisor on our Commodity Management Team in Singapore.

What you’ll achieve

As a Senior Advisor, you will be responsible for providing procurement expertise to ensure optimized supply chain strategies across multiple programs.

You will

• Management of supplier relationships: Strengthen relationships with suppliers, identify areas where they have gaps with respect to Dell requirements, and collaborate to close the gaps
• Sourcing: Collaborating with Product Group, Supply Chain Managers, and Front-End teams in development of the sourcing goals, RFQ packages, analysis of packages, preparation, and execution of negotiations, and drawing recommendations on the Business Awards
• Cost management: Align on aggressive yet reasonable cost targets, understand gaps, develop actions to close the gaps, provide timely outlooks on risks and opportunities, and collaborate with Financial Controllers and other peers
• Development and deployment of cost management and sourcing toolkits: Understand current toolkits, enhance the toolkits, and deploy the toolkits in sourcing and cost management activities
• Development and rollout of best-in-class processes: Identify gaps in sourcing or cost management processes or practices, develop proposals, align, and rollout enhancements
• Collaborate internationally: As the role covers stakeholders at various time zones, successful candidates should be prepared to maintain healthy work-life balance while being able to engage stakeholders based in the US and other parts of Asia

Essential Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline
• Demonstrated continued growth in procurement over more than 6 years, with at least 4 years in cost management and sourcing
• Developed a strong ability to develop strong supplier as well as internal relationships
• Confident in cost modeling one or more of the following areas: Mechanical stamping of stainless-steel parts, injection molding of plastic parts, PCBAs, manufacturing or other adders, including being able to analyze market trends of input factors and utilizing that to model costs
• Developed spikes in various cost management techniques and able to apply to sourcing or cost management activities

Desirable skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Supply Chain
• More than 2 years’ experience in sourcing and cost management in the areas of Networking, Computing or Consumer electronics
• Highly familiar with ODM or CM environments