Senior Global Commodity Manager

About the Role

The Senior Global Commodity Manager is responsible for developing and executing the global sourcing and category strategies for the Biochemicals commodity and associated sub commodities across Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, spend responsibility for this role is approximately $234m per year. This role drives cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability, risk management and supply chain continuity outcomes by partnering cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, R&D, Planning, and Supplier Quality to optimize the end-to-end Biochemical supply base in support of business growth and operational excellence. This position is part of the Global Strategic Procurement team. This role offers remote working to ensure a resilient, competitive, and compliant global biochemicals supply base that supports product availability worldwide.

In This Role, You Will Have the Opportunity To

• Strategic Category Leadership: Develop, define, and execute global category strategies for chemicals/biochemicals, delivering cost reduction, quality, delivery, sustainability goals and supply risk‑mitigation.
• Supplier Management & Negotiation Excellence: Evaluate suppliers, lead competitive events (RFIs/RFPs/auctions), negotiate agreements, drive preferred‑supplier adoption, and manage supplier performance to meet Beckman Coulter's needs.
• Advanced Analytical & Business Skills: Develop spend analysis, market intelligence, project repository maintenance, financial analysis, budget/price guidance, track/report savings against annual objectives.
• Cross‑Functional Leadership & Influence: Lead without direct authority—guide other functions and collaborate strongly with our R&D/NPI teams to provide strategic direction on supplier selection.
• Continuous Improvement & DBS (Lean) Mindset: Adopt and use structured continuous‑improvement tools (e.g., Lean, Kaizen, DBS) to improve cost, quality, delivery, inventory, cash, across Beckman Coulter.

Essential Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree, MBA or Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Engineering, Business, or a related technical field; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience: 12+ years of procurement/sourcing experience in chemicals, biochemicals, or biologics, including strategic sourcing and supplier management. Experience of sourcing FDA regulated products preferred, 5+ years managing biochemical reagent categories (e.g., antibodies, antigens, enzymes, beads) or operating in a technical role supporting sourcing.
• Technical Expertise: Working knowledge of biological reagents used in immunoassays (or other FDA regulated products) and their impact on product performance, stability, and manufacturing scalability, experience partnering with R&D and Operations to resolve reagent and supplier issues.
• Supplier & Sourcing Leadership: Demonstrated expertise in negotiations, contract management, and sourcing events such as RFI/RFP, spend benchmarking, E Tools such as E Auction with ability to evaluate suppliers on technical capability, quality, and total cost using TCO modelling. Being highly collaborative with such functions as New Product Introduction, R&D, Supplier Development and Quality to build roadmaps and Sourcing Strategies for the Biochem Category and Subcategories.
• Travel Requirements: Ability to travel up to 20%, including domestic and international trips as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• Global sourcing within the life sciences, biotech, or pharmaceutical sectors, specifically involving high‑purity biochemicals, specialty chemicals, or regulated raw materials and having existing senior executive relationships with representative suppliers.
• Working collaboratively across large organizations, including spend pooling, joint operating company negotiations, collaboration on risk mitigation strategies.
• Managing procurement activities in regulated chemical environments, including compliance with REACH, TSCA, PFAS‑elimination programs, or other relevant chemical‑regulatory frameworks.

Pay & Benefits

The annual salary range for this role is $165K - $185K. This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement.