6782 - Materials Margin Manager

Malaysians Only!

Company Overview:

The organization is a electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, offering integrated design, manufacturing, and after-sales support to global OEMs. With a strong financial foundation, it delivers innovative and reliable solutions across the full product lifecycle.

Job Descriptions:

• CBOM Ownership & Future Guidance: Take full ownership of CBOM and Price For Customer (PFC) cost accuracy. Proactively advise Business Unit (BU) teams on future CBOM structuring, identifying cost-down roadmaps and material selection strategies to maximize margin expansion prior to customer quotation.
• Quoted CBOM vs. Price Book Price (PB): Maintain strict separation between quoted costs and actual purchasing costs to actively protect and grow materials margin.
• Cost Roll Governance: Lead the quarterly and semi-annual cost roll processes to align inventory valuation with market realities, preventing outdated standards, cost creep, and audit exposure.
• Customized Parts Pricing: Apply "should-cost" modeling for complex mechanicals, plastics, and PCBs, working in tandem with CPE and CQE teams to ensure accurate baseline costing.
• MPV & PPV Strategy: Define and execute the sell-price logic to maximize favorable Material Price Variance (MPV). Conduct rigorous PPV audits to ensure procurement gains remain within the organization.
• Leakage Control: Serve as the gatekeeper to prevent the early pass-through of supplier cost-downs to the customer, while ensuring the immediate recovery of market cost increases.
• Quarterly Price Review (QPR) Execution: Control quarterly customer price updates, ensuring all premiums, surcharges, and raw material increases are accurately recovered without surrendering competitive advantage.
• Contract & Open-Book Compliance: Manage and enforce open-book versus closed-book customer rules, protecting internal markup logic and avoiding over-disclosure that leads to commercial disadvantage
• Provide actionable, forward-looking profitability visibility to Business Unit Managers (BUMs), steering commercial decisions away from margin-dilutive pricing.
• Support the RFQ process to ensure all winning bids are structured with expandable margin potential from Day 1.
• Eliminate siloed decision-making by acting as the single commercial pricing authority across SCM, BU, and Finance
• Materials Margin %: Growth of the spread between standard and quoted material cost.
• MPV / PPV Value: Absolute dollar value of procurement gains captured versus standard cost.
• Re-quote Effectiveness: Percentage of supplier cost-downs successfully retained internally.

Requirements:

• 8 to 12 years of progressive experience within a Tier-1 or Tier-2 Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) environment.
• Advanced financial acumen with a deep understanding of P&L mechanics, gross margin generation, and inventory valuation.
• Expert-level proficiency in ERP costing and purchasing modules (SAP / INFOR).
• Strong internal and external negotiation capabilities with the authority to influence cross-functional pricing strategies.