Kelvin Liew

- Global Strategy Development: Formulated and executed mid - long term global commodity strategies, aligning with corporate roadmaps. - Supply Base Rationalization: Optimized the supplier landscape, strategies to increase negotiation leverage and operational efficiency. - Supplier Risk Management: Identifying geopolitical and capacity risks for critical interconnect components. - TCO Optimization: Drove Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reductions through competitive benchmarking of raw material indices (e.g., copper and gold) , to identify pricing gaps and secure cost optimization during negotiations. - Negotiated and managed Long-Term Agreements (LTAs) and Master Service Agreements (MSAs) - Led cross-functional Value Engineering projects with Engineering and Quality teams to substitute materials or simplify interconnect designs. - Involved in supplier capacity planning for high-volume ramps, ensuring supplier readiness and yield optimization for critical products - Implemented a comprehensive supplier scorecard system (KPIs) to track quality, on-time delivery (OTD), and responsiveness, improving overall supplier performance by conducting business reviews with Tier 1 suppliers to align on technology roadmaps, resolve escalations, and drive continuous improvement plans

- Regional Account management - focus on regional EMS in South East Asia Region to achieve sales target - Focus on increasing sales thru strategic planning internally - Initiate new programs to enhance customers' dependency - Focus on gaining new opportunities thru bidding and new design-in activities - Focus on price negotiation to gain local awards - A team player, active communicator to bridge between global OEM teams with EMS to maximize sales efforts

- Sales and marketing, for all customers located within the Northern region of Malaysia for all Laird product divisions such as Thermal , EMI foams, metal shields, Elastromers and Absorbers. - Focus on winning new bidding projects in this region to achieve sales target, increase profitability and to generate potential new business in the region. - Enhance reputation and branding thru continuous branding promotions, road shows and supporting in technical presentation. - Responsible for new R&D projects / technical development with customers for all product lines, NPI project management, and production coordination for new projects. - Regional coordinator for price negotiation, quality issues, delivery deadlines, liabilities / dead stock negotiation, and other business terms and conditions.

- Responsible for all Europe and US based customers in the Northern region of Malaysia to achieve sales target - Pricing negotiator for global contract price negotiation - Responsible to create quarterly, half yearly and yearly sales plan and strategies in order to achieve sales target. - Developing new local customers with distributors to generate more sales revenues in the region. - Responsible in handling all promotions activities such as R&D technical presentation, road show promotion, customers complaints and quality issues

- Responsible for all incoming and outgoing material inspection, leading a group of supervisors and inspectors to carry on daily jobs and customer complaints. - Team leader for ESD shielding and ESD improvement plans. - Responsible for all documentation control in part change notification, auditing all changes to the changes in the documents and processes. - Involved as internal auditor for ISO qualification for burn in business division. - Hands on for DOE, FMEA, CAR thru Why-Why analysis or fish bone diagram to identify the root causes. - Provide training material and access performance evaluation. Involved in cross functional team for cost saving project with automation process.