Manager - Consulting Jobs at Aditi Consulting with Visa Sponsorship

Payrate: $70.00 - $75.00/hr

Summary: The role involves developing and managing strategic vendor partnerships for data center equipment, focusing on robotics and automation technology. The candidate should have a strong background in supply chain management, complex negotiations, and a deep understanding of technology trends within the data center and automation space.

Responsibilities:

• Vendor Strategy & Management: Develop and nurture strategic vendor relationships through effective relationship management, including implementing performance metrics and conducting regular business reviews.
• Maintain current knowledge of technology and industry trends for data center equipment, performing relevant market analysis.

• Drive supplier proposals (RFI/RFQ) and business awards.

• Commercial and Financial Management: Develop and execute negotiation strategies and lead the negotiation team to contract closure.

• Negotiate complex contracts, including Master Purchase Agreements, Master Service Agreements, and Statements of Work.
• Own market and actual cost data, including developing should-cost models for data center equipment.

• Resolve all commercial and technical queries arising from the quote process.

• Operational Excellence & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ensure business metrics are achieved across the end-to-end process, from manufacturing to data center operation.

• Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams, including Manufacturing Quality, Strategic Engineering and Design, and others.
• Define and drive core business metrics and risk indicators for continuous improvement.
• Provide metrics for quarterly business reviews to assess supply chain health and forward-looking risk.
• Drive critical operations related to assurance of supply and capacity through partnership with the Demand/Supply team.

Qualifications

• BA/BS or equivalent with 3-5 years of supply chain experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of Sourcing Management or Supply Chain Management experience in commercial sourcing roles.
• Proven analytical experience and demonstrated ability to guide teams to deliver results.
• Experience in improving supply chain and supplier performance, particularly in the semiconductor/memory commodity.
• Extensive experience in contracts and contract negotiations, with a focus on agreement closure.
• Proficiency in robotics and automation, with a strong understanding of supply chain processes and their integration with robotics technology.

Desired Skills:

• MS/MBA.
• Strong understanding of complex supply chain operations and processes, including forecasting, supplier qualification, and quality assurance.
• Specific experience in automation/robotics and warehouse/logistics.
• Experience with broad enterprise systems work, including SAP, Oracle, and custom applications.
• Working knowledge of SQL and/or BI tools (Tableau/Power BI/Looker) to build and maintain supplier scorecards.
• Experience negotiating software licensing models for robotics/AI.
• Experience defining contract and supplier requirements for AI systems.

Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $70.00 - $75.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match, life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law.

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