Howard Chen

• Develop and lead global sourcing strategies, ensuring cross-functional alignment and establishing global scalability.
• Manage CM/JDM relationships and successfully close complex negotiations including contract negotiations, statements of work, pricing, joint development and manufacturing support, among other terms
• Create MVA should cost model and optimize the material shipping strategy to ensure the best end to end cost solutions
• Actively look for cost optimization opportunities and lead cross-functional efforts to achieve it
• Influence CM's manufacturing processes, technology decisions, and policies in beneficial and sustainable ways
• Comprehend the technical aspects of production and equipment to identify opportunities for cost, space, and process optimization
• Negotiate MVA, NRE and CaPEx costs to ensure best-in-class cost for our products
• Create advanced analytics and data-driven approaches to improve supplier performance
• Evaluate technical and business risks, analyze based on the data and create mitigation plans/alternatives
• Lead complex engagements on supplier partnerships and strategies with Sonos' senior leadership
• Collaborate with cross functional teams throughout development builds, end-to-end costs evaluation, supplier engagements, and all other items associated with executing a successful launch
• Be able to manage multiple projects and responsibilities in parallel

1. Act as the regional sourcing manager supervising the commodity leaders in China with a matrix organization which includes commodities of magnetics, power supply, cable, connector, transformer, adapter.

2. Act as the global automotive JDM sourcing manager. Make full alignment with Automotive functional leaders on the supply chain development strategy, supervise the sourcing activities and lead local supply base development in the US, EU and APAC.

3. Collaborate with global distribution service provider (DHL) to consolidate Bose APAC distribution solutions at competitive cost and shorter lead time.

4. Drive annual negotiations with the team members and execute multiple lean six sigma projects.

5. Create self-development plan for the team and improve individual capabilities and competencies.

1. Create the PCB should cost calculator for internal and external benchmarking, cost negotiation. Being promoted as corporate PCB expert.

2. Lead lean manufacturing improvement activities within the supply chain.

3. Create PCB, LED, Passive components purchasing policies and procedures that complied with company standards and regulatory requirements.

4. Supervise sourcing activities of multiple commodities - PCB, FPC, cable, LED, passive parts.

1. Qualify and onboard new vendors in APAC and monitor PCB, FPC supplier quality performance, drive continuous improvement via executing lean six sigma projects.

2. Solve supplier urgent quality/capacity issues in APAC to ensure stable and consistent supply.

3. Give training course of 5 core quality tools to the suppliers, establish the best practice competition in the supply chain.

1. Lead EM and ME component suppliers to solve quality issues

2. Support NPI builds and work with production quality to meet yield requirement

3. Regular quality system audit and process audit