Senior Commodity Manager

About the role

The Senior Commodity Manager is responsible for ensuring quality materials and services, while procuring them on time at competitive market pricing. This role oversees suppliers to continuously improve quality, delivery, and price to support supply chain operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global category strategy implementation managing suppliers to support Quality, Cost, Cash, Service, Risk
• Support internal customers including up to 7 global manufacturing facilities and R&D/ New Product Introduction
• Lead RFQ and quote analysis, evaluate vendors' capability, quality, reliability and price competitiveness
• Achieve year over year cost savings including negotiations, value engineering programs, contracting, competitive bidding, should costing
• Manage projects with ability to change direction according to business dynamics

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering related field with 5+ years sourcing experiences in supply chain
• Experienced individual contributor with understanding of procurement concepts, principles, and practices. Demonstrates experience and results in negotiating with suppliers on master supply agreements, inventory agreements, part costs, etc.
• Experience as a formal or informal project manager. Has worked with team members in global geographies. Makes material contributions to the completion of specific programs and projects with significant scope that materially impact organizational schedules, resources and costs
• Understands a wide application of technical concepts, theories, standards, and practices in the field and is expanding knowledge of related subject areas. These include but are not limited to global commodity material pricing, category manufacturing process knowledge, general procurement quoting, supplier measurement and strategy development tools

Essential Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 15% including overnight to global locations as required
• Previous experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, Project Management related roles or projects
• Leverage Lean Manufacturing including Daily Visual Management, Kaizen, Kanban

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements

Ability to travel up to 15% including overnight to global locations as required

Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: N/A