Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.
Reporting to the Senior Manager of Product Procurement, you as a Procurement Manager PMR products will be responsible for global leadership of Contract manufacturing categories (PFR) within the Industrial Business Unit.
Key responsibilities include :
- Conduct market analysis worldwide for different products / categories in a contract manufacturing environment .
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills—with proven success in building vendor relationships, collaborating cross-functionally, and managing multiple concurrent projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Prioritizes re-location projects in collaboration with stakeholders and ensures team goals and objectives are achieved.
- This position will require travel within North America , Asia & Europe.
About Your Job:
Conduct supplier and market analysis to identify trends , risk, opportunities. Strong analytical skills and product solving ability. Been able to develop a deep cost control methodology. (30%)
Conduct accurate and financial analyses for a Make vs Buy costs. Plan, Drive & Execute Change of supplier, product introduction projects. (30%)
Conducts negotiations, leveraging advanced negotiating capabilities to successfully achieve business outcomes with the objective of GP improvements. (15%)
Managing overall supplier relationships including supplier performance, capabilities, manufacture contracting management & risk mitigation. (10%)
Collaborating with PM , Engineering and business stakeholders on new product introduction programs to define standard and custom product requirements to ensure that sourcing strategies are meet on cost and business objectives (Revenue Growth). (15%)
About You:
Bachelor's degree in business economics, engineering, analytics, statistics or equivalent.
10+ years of experience in supply chain, commodity management, and supplier management or global manufacturing environment.
Strong communication skill, rich project management skill.
Self-management skills and self-started attitude highly valued
Able to lead cross-funtional team to work towards KPI and goals
Ability to interact and engage with peers with good communication skills.
Ability to review and understand engineering requirements and design documents for electronics. Ability to decomposite electronics BOM and translate them into cost.
Experience developing, leading, and executing global supplier cost, risk, and lead time reduction strategies
Experience working with teams located in diverse regions (Europe & Asia).
English fluent verbally and written is a must.
Proficiency with ERP, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
Experience managing SAP.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan includes a company match with an additional annual contribution, with plan details also referenced in corporate filings. This structure indicates dependable retirement support across U.S. roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A Lifestyle Spending Account and tuition reimbursement, plus wellness resources and an Employee Assistance Program, expand the package beyond core insurance. Development programs such as Lean Six Sigma certifications reinforce a holistic rewards mix.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage are standard and described as solid and workable. Coverage breadth is supported globally with EAP access.
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Littelfuse is an industrial technology manufacturing company empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world. Across more than 15 countries, and with 17,000 global associates, we partner with customers to design and deliver innovative, reliable solutions. Serving over 100,000 end customers, our products are found in a variety of industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets—everywhere, every day. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Littelfuse was founded in 1927. View our broad and deep product portfolio: https://www.littelfuse.com/ Littelfuse has had a long-standing commitment to ensuring a diversified workforce through equal employment opportunities. Maintaining a diversified workforce is critical to the success of our organization. Each associate receives equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, creed, sex (with or without sexual conduct), marital status, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, order of protection status, military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, genetic information, unfavorable discharge from military service, and any other protected class under federal, state or local law
