Electronics engineer Jobs in Toronto, ON

Req ID : 125687

Remote Position : Hybrid

Region : Americas

Country : Canada

State / Province : Ontario

City : Toronto

Summary

The Material Costing and Awards Consultant leads strategic sourcing and supplier management for critical and high-value commodities on a global or regional scale, ensuring effective source selection, process implementation, and cost management. This role provides guidance to cross-functional teams, driving material pricing strategies, customer BOM analysis, and the deployment of sourcing strategies for new business opportunities. With expertise in supplier negotiations, relationship management, and industry trends—particularly in the EMS sector—the Material Costing and Awards Consultant ensures supplier performance, resolves issues, and conducts business reviews with key stakeholders. Exceptional communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, combined with a strong understanding of global supply chain dynamics, enable this role to align supplier strategies with organizational goals.

Requirements

• Maintains responsibility for global and / or regional critical or high dollar commodity and / or coordination of a group of Commodity Analysts.
• Provides direction for source selection and ensures proper process implementation.
• Provides leadership to the Material Cost and Awards teams for New Business Sourcing Strategy deployment.
• Provides commercial direction to the Material Pricing team in support of Customer Materials Commitment process from materials pricing and customer BOM analysis perspective.
• Deployment of Direct / Distribution Commodity Strategy including performance reporting to senior management.
• Actively engages with suppliers on High Profile, Must Win Quotes; Negotiates critical high dollar or strategic commodities and / or provides direction to the team.
• Manages the supplier relationships including performance feedback, supplier report card and problem resolution on New Business Quoting activity.
• Conducts quarterly business reviews with senior management with key / strategic suppliers.
• Provides guidance, leadership and direction with respect to interaction with suppliers.
• Excellent Supplier Relationship Management Skills.
• Strong understanding of EMS Suppliers, and respective Direct or Distribution network.
• Leads process development and the development of supplier engagement strategies.

Knowledge / Skills / Competencies

Typical Education and Experience

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law). At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW :

Celestica (NYSE, TSX : CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

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