Commodity Manager Senior

About the role

The Commodity Manager Senior is responsible for planning, organizing, and controlling the sourcing of major strategic commodities that have significant financial impact. They implement global supply management strategies to achieve supplier partnerships, supplier base reduction, effective asset management, continuous quality improvement, delivery and cycle time performance improvement, and early supplier involvement in Johnson Outdoors' new product developments.

Responsibilities

• Negotiates and administers complex procurement contracts that encompass cost savings and delivery.
• Leads moderately complex to complex negotiations on strategic sourcing contracts, ensuring legally binding and auditable elements are accurately documented and retained.
• Selects, appoints, and steers a supply base that progresses Johnson Outdoors' objectives on cost, cash, service levels, and technology platforms.
• Develops, evaluates, and manages supplier relationships to accomplish material cost, availability, and inventory goals.
• Analyzes and troubleshoots quality problems and influences suppliers in the resolution process.
• Maintains supplier quality through assessment, evaluation, and ongoing monitoring, including supplier performance management in the areas of delivery, process flexibility, and total cost management.
• Oversees supplier performance by performing periodic credit/organizational reviews, ensuring supplier site audits, and developing and reporting supplier performance metrics.
• Acts as a liaison between suppliers and Johnson Outdoors Inc. (JOI) to troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve issues, delivering solutions to avoid supply interruption and adverse costs.
• Procures and evaluates all necessary new materials for each phase of the design process, coordinates supplier information gathering and visits, arranges engineering samples, and leads the qualification process of new, updated, or troublesome materials with suppliers and JOI inspection.
• Serves as a member and/or materials resource on product development teams, designing, developing, and implementing commodity procurement plans, managing the transition of new and existing business to strategic suppliers, and ensuring a smooth and positive transition to JOI's customers.
• Maintains inventory targets, monitors phases of all processes to forecast fluctuations, and alerts teams of needed inventory adjustments.
• Develops and regularly monitors plans to minimize obsolete, out-of-date, or any other scrap material in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.
• Reviews, researches, designs, implements, and monitors Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) programs (existing and future).
• Provides leadership and direction to cross-functional relationships with suppliers and JOI Production, Quality, Finance departments as well as logistics planning.
• Works closely with sales and engineering to influence design and material selection, ensuring lowest cost materials/services at highest quality and on-time delivery.
• Maintains awareness of external influences to cost and performance (short and long term) including economical, logistical, and environmental factors.
• Routinely provides guidance and daily direction to buyers relative to business partners and suppliers.
• Executes designated regulatory requirements, including country of origin certificates and other international shipping requirements. Researches and assigns Harmonized Tariff Codes to purchased parts.
• Maintains awareness of market technology and trends, keeping the business informed of necessary movements in the industry relevant to production and sourcing/purchasing markets.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience: Typically requires a minimum of 7 years of experience as managing moderately complex procurement contracts, vendor negotiations, and the sourcing of goods and services.

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated leadership skills and abilities to influence others, lead work teams, and provide guidance to other staff.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills to effectively communicate with all levels throughout the organization and external vendors, strong customer service orientation, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to drive for results.
• Good working knowledge of a wide variety of mechanical/electrical devices, capability to perform specialized analysis/calculations, and knowledge of applicable manufacturing processes and equipment.
• Experience in Manufacturing Requirements Planning (MRP), and JD Edwards (JDE), logistics, and domestic/international contract writing.
• Advanced skills and proficiency in using the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
• Expertise in managing projects from concept development to implementation and evaluation.

Pay

Compensation range: $85,000 - $120,000 depending upon experience.

Schedule

Not specified.