Paul Kelly

Snr Director Strategic Sourcing @ Celestica | Supply Chain Management

County Galway, Ireland

About

Snr Director of Strategic Sourcing at Celestica managing end to end supply chain for our Advanced Technical Solutions(ATS) group($3b+) which includes Health Tech, Industrial, Power Infrastructure and Capital equipment. My mission is simple - drive maximum productivity with minimum inventory while ensuring no interruptions to supply by having the right suppliers in the right place at the right place and the right price and time. Since each segment is unique with differing volumes, technologies and regulatory requirements this necessitates building a diverse and robust supply chain to meet our needs. This has become more important given the current Geo Political situation and as such I have to build multiple redundancies into our supply chain. My skillset covers everything from supplier sourcing through to SIOP and everything in-between. I am also a subject matter expert across many commodities

Experience

  • Celestica (Full-time · 7 yrs 4 mos)
    • Snr Director Stragegic Sourcing
      Oct 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

      Responsible for End to End Supply Chain for our Industrial, Smart Energy, Capital Equipment and Health Tech segments globally(~$3B). Mission is to drive maximum productivity with minimum inventory while avoiding any material outages. I manage both the customer facing SCM team and the sourcing and commodity teams as well as the SIOP process

    • Director Strategic Sourcing
      Apr 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Agent Of Change to update and Revitalize existing supply chain for Medical, Industrial and Smart energy sectors. Implement New Strategic Supplier program to align supply base to our needs and ensure best TCOO. Implement new Supplier Management Program including new Integrated Global scorecard. Responsible for Global WAPT and multiple other special projects.

  • Benchmark Electronics (14 yrs 10 mos)
    • Corporate Director, Global Sourcing & Supplier Engineering
      Feb 2011 - Apr 2019 · 8 yrs 3 mos

      Responsible for Development and Implementation of Global Sourcing Strategy across all sites.Develop Global Supplier Engineering and Sourcing team. Develop Global commodity team. Work with all sites to ensure local requirements are met while still following overall corporate strategy. Increase the company bottom line.

    • Director - Asia IPO
      Feb 2010 - Feb 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Manage all aspects of an International Purchasing Office with 4 locations and 150+ staff purchasing for multiple plants globally >Stabalize supply chain and reduce 'churn' >Implement supply chain automation >Completely restructure organization for optimum performance >Open new IPO in Penang >Increase PPV >Reduce Inventory

    • Director, European Supply Chain
      Oct 2007 - Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Manage the european supply chain for 3 plants based in Holland, Romania and Ireland. >Develop and Implement a localized supplychain >Develop and Implement strategic suppliers >Develop robust supply chain teams and processes >Reduction of overall supply base >Reduction of Inventory and Increase overall PPV

  • Benchmark Electronics, Inc. (3 yrs 8 mos)
    • Supplier Chain/Sourcing Mgr
      2003 - 2004 · 1 yr

      In House Resident at major OEM customer site. Key point of contact for all issues relating to several major NPI projects. Manage all Customer Communications, expectation and issues

    • Senior Supplier Engineer
      Jun 2000 - 2003 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Lead Engineer managing Localization of supply chain for several large OEM's

  • Estimator at Southborough Int
    1998 - 2000 · 2 yrs

    Responsible for all costing and NPI Engineering activity in a large Tier 2 SCM

  • Estimator at Sanmina
    1996 - 1998 · 2 yrs

    Half of a two person team responsible for all pricing activity in a large Sheet Metal and Top Level Assembly Plant