Materials Program Manager, Product Operations - Firetv

Materials Program Manager

The Materials Program Manager (MPM) is responsible for the management and delivery of the product financial health for groundbreaking, highly integrated consumer products. This person has a business orientation and is responsible for working within the local and remote operations, engineering, and software teams driving development, implementation, and management of the product budget. This person is the business voice responsible for capturing, documenting, and communicating financial exposures and outlay as it relates to their product. They are involved throughout all stages of the product family's lifecycle to ensure Lab126 achieve all financial targets through end-of-life. They will support weekly executive product line reviews outlining performance against budget, target, and actual cost.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Driving the engineering and supply chain teams to optimize BOM+MVA cost below target.
• Negotiating component costs managed by the contract manufacturer.
• Tracking the program actual costs versus target to identify program deltas and corrective actions to bring back on track.
• Hosting monthly executive management cost reviews that deep dive through every aspect of your product cost.
• Determining the Supplier Plan of Record to ensure the optimal mix of suppliers, balancing cost, quality, and supply continuity.
• Managing device-level component qualification, working with engineering, product integrity, quality, and regulatory teams to ensure components are fully qualified before mass production and approve purchases.
• Performing competitive cost analysis.
• Providing cost estimates for early engagement concepts and products, including providing cost reduction options.
• Attending program new product introduction meetings to understand the cost implication of engineering and/or process changes as related to your product fully loaded cost targets.
• Working with the OEM/ODM to set your product purchase order cost for the upcoming period, and manage purchase price variance claims resulting from engineering changes, component obsolescence, or forecast variance.

The MPM role is part of an Operations core team that partners with engineering and manufacturing to drive new product introduction (NPI) products from concept, development, and into mass production (MP).