Supplier Collaboration Specialist

The position also involves strategic contributions such as developing and utilizing Nokia's analytical tools for global allocation, driving scenario planning, and identifying opportunities to reduce excess costs. Furthermore, the role requires leading process improvement initiatives, integrating global policies, and participating in cross-functional efforts to ensure business line revenue, on-time delivery, quality, and customer satisfaction metrics are met, often leading or participating in global strategic supply chain initiatives.

• Drive Scenario planning to support strategic decisions on allocation of inventory.
• Resolve any outstanding material issues in terms of re-allocation of material, global shortage constraints, and other supply issues, and offer strategic solutions for the future.
• Directly responsible to manage, expedite and solve critical shortages within Business Line supply chain for a global market. 
• Ability to manage/work directly with a worldwide team, dealing with the complexities of multi-geographic manufacturing and cultures, and having the ability to support execution with insourced/outsourced supply chain.
• Meet with the various internal and external manufacturing partners (EMS/ODM/JDM) weekly to review/resolve the critical and operational shortages
• Foster strong working relationships with business units internal to Nokia and with external project vendors and suppliers.
• Further develop, support, and utilize Nokia’s strategic analytical tools in support of global allocation and market constraints
• Identify opportunities to reduce excess incurred costs, including freight, PPV and NCNR items.
• Search distribution and broker markets to clear shortages. 
• Create and/or enhance process improvement policy and guidelines in support of global shortage issues
• Provide overall leadership in the integration of global policy and procedure in support of clearing critical shortages.
• Acquire support, facilitate interfaces between the business units, internal business partners and suppliers, needed to clear material shortages.
• Align strategies and priorities with other Business groups and coordinate services, projects, and plans to ensure priorities are addressed appropriately
• Share knowledge and understanding on processes, metrics, reporting and tools
• Participates with other members of the BU core staff to establish and execute business strategy.
• Participates with other members of X-functional organizations to ensure Business Line revenue, on time delivery, Quality & Reliability and customer satisfaction metrics are met.
• Lead, Program Manage, &/or participate in global strategic supply chain initiatives that cut across different Business Units.
• Leveragability of strategies to other Business Unit's.
   

You have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with 5-7 years of professional work experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge (6+years) of relevant experience in respective services (e.g. Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management or Distribution environment)
• Experience in root cause analysis and problem-solving methodologies (e.g. Six Sigma, FMEA)
• Certified purple badge required and green or black belt preferred
• Project management experience
• Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls and monitoring processes
• Strong collaboration and partnering skills
• Personal Drive & Coping with Pressure
• Experience of indirect management - managing by influence. 
• Experience in working with virtual teams
• Office/reporting tools proficiency, especially advanced Excel, also business intelligence tools, i.e.. PowerBI
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency in written and spoken English