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Director, Procurement Operations - ATS

Date: Oct 30, 2026

Location: Monterrey, NLE, MX

Summary

The Director, Procurement Operations owns and oversees the Global Purchasing activities for all customer accounts and market segments. This is a leadership role responsible for managing and supporting a large team of employees who buy materials for all integral sites and commodities within the ATS market segment. This role is responsible for delivering a unique client/customer experience, enabling profitable growth, and driving transformational change within Celestica's Global SCM team. This includes engaging in regular communication both with internal stakeholders and with external customers related to demand, commitments, non-performing inventory and future process changes/improvements. It involves maintaining external contacts to understand best practices for improving costs and logistics offerings, as well as implementing structures to meet future customer needs. The successful candidate will be involved in day-to-day issues related to both direct and indirect procurement. This role has significant cross-functional involvement such as interface with Suppliers and Commodity Management to drive demand/supply alignment, supplier performance, and enablement of supplier flexibility programs. As a Director, the successful candidate will provide direction to managers on objective setting, performance measurements, and company procedures. This includes regular interaction, coaching and feedback with direct reports, as well as their employees in some situations.

Detailed Description

Responsible for creating long term procurement plans to stay ahead of market trends & customer expectations





Responsible for collaborating with Commodity management and Planning to drive clear to build outcomes and supplier flexibility programs

Responsible for monitoring on-going analytics to spot trends and opportunities to proactively address customer and client business needs

Responsible for supporting the successful launch of all new business within Celestica

Works broadly with functional SCM & Operations to drive production status meetings and revenue attainment

Drives the team to support materials strategies per commodity to meet customer needs, while managing Celestica’s ongoing need for profitable growth

Drives long-term continuous improvement plans to enable faster procure to pay outcomes

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to yield the best results for customers and shareholders

Responsible for owning and driving key performance indicators (parts per Buyer, PO placement/confirmation, past due PO management, invoice and receiving referrals, material gating revenue)

Responsible for establishing supplier relationships to execute supplier performance along with demand/supply execution and supplier flexibility programs

Liaison between senior leadership team and senior operations to drive aligned outcomes and objectives

Strong leadership skills, global manufacturing experience, people skills, SCM expertise, Project Management,



Business Savvy

Excellent knowledge of the supply chain and manufacturing processes supporting all Celestica market segments

Excellent knowledge of Celestica’s customer’s business, organizations, products and processes to enable Celestica to support the supply chain needs of its customers

Extensive commercial and business expertise to enable successful compliance to customer & supplier contracts

Excellent communication skills and the ability to negotiate with clients, customer and external suppliers to deliver world class solutions

Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse global team of directors, managers and employees.

Strong cross-functional project and team leadership skills

Understanding of import/export, regulatory and labor requirements across Asia to enable purchasing team to work seamlessly

Able to maintain external contacts with consultants, associations and other companies for benchmarking and networking.

Physical Demands

- Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
- Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
- Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.
- Occasional overnight travel may be required.

Typical Experience

14+ years supply chain experience with a proven track record of interacting with diverse manufacturing, SCM and customer focused teams

Procurement leadership in an ODM or EMS environment, with strong supplier relationships in the electronics in

📌 Director, Procurement Operations (Monterrey)
🏢 Celestica International
📍 Monterrey