Commodity Specialist/Senior Commodity Specialist-NPI

3 Months ago • 2 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The Commodity Specialist/Senior Commodity Specialist will be responsible for sourcing activities, ensuring project deliverables, and managing product costs. They will drive cross-functional teams, mitigate risks, and collaborate with commodity experts to make sourcing decisions. This role also involves understanding market pricing, defining cost drivers, and developing supplier partnerships. The specialist will also align suppliers with Enphase technology roadmaps and contribute to supplier scorecards. This role requires strong project management and collaboration skills.

Must have:

SPOC for sourcing Activities for Assigned NPI project
Ensure sourcing Project deliverables such as Quality, Delivery, Cost & Service
Active involvement in project planning
Drive cross functional team to ensure sourcing process are followed
Product Cost Management at BOM level for all Commodities
Risk Mitigation - EOL/NRND /Globalization/Single source elimination/PSL adherence
Minimum BE (Preferable Engineering, ME Engineering and/or MBA)
2+ years NPI/Global Commodity Management experience

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Job Details

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company and leading provider of solar, battery, and electric vehicle charging products. Founded in 2006, Enphase transformed the solar industry with our revolutionary microinverter technology, which turns sunlight into a safe, reliable, resilient, and scalable source of energy to power our lives. Today, the Enphase Energy System helps people make, use, save, and sell their own power. Enphase is also one of the fastest growing and innovative clean energy companies in the world, with approximately 68 million products installed across more than 145 countries.

We are building teams that are designing, developing, and manufacturing next-generation energy technologies and our work environment is fast-paced, fun, and full of exciting new projects.

If you are passionate about advancing a more sustainable future, this is the perfect time to join Enphase!

We are seeing a Commodity Analyst.

NPI Project Management

SPOC for sourcing Activities for Assigned NPI project
Ensure sourcing Project deliverables such as Quality, Delivery, Cost & Service deliverables are met for assigned project
Active involvement in project planning
Drive cross functional team to ensure sourcing process are followed.
Product Cost Management at BOM level for all Commodities for the assigned project.
Risk Mitigation -EOL/NRND /Globalization/Single source elimination/PSL adherence

NPI Commodity Management:

Support Assigned mechanical/Electronics commodities to all NPI projects.
Capacity planning and Single source risk mitigation at NPI stage.
Represent Enphase’s needs to the industry and drive supplier partnerships to enable aligned investments
Work with Enphase technical expert to define target candidate suppliers of Enphase NPIs based on Enphase commodity strategy
Lead commercial related activities including RFI/RFQs, cost finalization etc, and perform commodity management role in activities leading by other functions to support NPI.
Collaborate with Enphase Commodity experts and commodity team members drive best sourcing decisions based on TCO
Understand current market pricing and dynamics of competitive landscape
Define cost drivers, establish should cost and work with engineers to achieve Design-to-Cos
Escalation point for NPI team on assigned commodity related issues, including delivery, quality, supplier support, etc.

Strategy Development and Implementation

Collaborate with Enphase Global Commodity Manager –Sustaining and other commodity team members to define Enphase sourcing strategy.
Implement commodity strategy during whole NPI lifecycle.
Managing sourcing risks and create mitigation plan during whole NPI lifecycle.
Contribute valuable inputs to supplier scorecard and business review, follow up responsible action points and drive supplier improvement continuously.

Technology Management

Align suppliers and Enphase technology roadmaps through understanding of market trends, Enphase future requirements and suppliers’ technology value proposition
Develop suppliers to enable innovative products/solutions to align with Enphase roadmap
Be trusted partner and thought leader to Enphase product and development team

Who You Are and What You Bring

Demonstrated ability to drive and close cross-functional project initiatives with great skill of project management
Minimum BE (Preferable Engineering, ME Engineering and/or MBA)
2+ years NPI/Global Commodity Management, Manufacturing or Management experience in a industry. Strong background on NPI management will be a plus.
Direct Experience in Assigned commodity
Possesses strong technical and commercial knowledge on cost drivers
Demonstrated leadership, collaboration and influencing skills
Strong, positive, can-do attitude, self-motivated and directed.