NPI Innovation Sourcing Partner

Arbeitgeber: Nexperia Germany GmbH

Job Description

**About the Role:**

This newly designed role aims at connecting between our business groups (BGs) and procurement to understand key technical requirements as well as streamline sourcing activities and enable a speedy time to market.

You will be the key go-to person for our R&D colleagues across any of our 4 BGs globally and will work closely with our global category teams, incumbent and potentially new suppliers – depending on the material request by our R&D colleagues. You will engage in technical discussions with our R&D teams and ensure a speedy trial phase, up until the material is released for mass production. From there it is handed over to our global sourcing teams

**What You Will Do:**

- Partner cross-functionally with our BG R&D teams, engineering, operations, controlling and quality teams to enable new product development
- Own end-to-end sourcing responsibility for all BG required materials and outsourced technical services during the product development stage, incl. achieving agreed objectives and key results (OKRs)
- Scout the supplier market for innovative supply partners
- Lead technical partner dialogues to ensure streamlined sourcing for market standards or trends
- Align Sourcing Strategies of Global Procurement Key Category Teams with BG R&D Teams
- build and maintain strategic supplier relationships and manage their performance
- Drive value creation initiatives and product innovation, considering long-term commercial leverage
- Lead commercial negotiations and close (long-term) supply contracts, apply pricing models and securing supply
- Define, execute and adapt global NPI strategies to our corporate and the landing category strategy, and ensure technology roadmap alignment
- Ensure stable and timely supply of sample batches ensuring supplier readiness and timely industrialization (Time to Market)
- attend industry conferences, visit and audit (new) supply partners, and prepare market intelligence and strategic insights into supply trends, cost, and technology developments for internal stakeholders
- Support procurement transformation and sustainability requirements and drive improvement initiatives

**What You Will Need:**

- University degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering or another technical domain
- Minimum 7 years of sourcing experience in an international manufacturing industry
- Proven negotiation and analytical skills, and a good understanding of current ESG requirements
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills on an international level
- Excellent English speaking and communication skills amongst various groups of stakeholders, also across borders (Tier 1+2 sites), nice to have: Mandarin, Japanese, or German language skills
- Capability to think out of the box while continuously challenging the status quo
- Work independently with a solution-oriented and proactive mindset
- Proactively identify and monitor emerging technical trends and developments
- Willingness to travel internationally