Job InformationJoin Doosan Bobcat as a Category Leader and play a key role in sourcing the materials and components that power our industry-leading equipment. In this position, you'll develop supplier partnerships, manage commodity strategies, and support new product development initiatives that drive innovation, quality, and cost efficiency. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you'll analyze market trends, identify sourcing opportunities, and help ensure a reliable global supply chain. This role offers hands-on exposure to strategic sourcing, supplier management, and business decision-making, with opportunities to collaborate across all levels of the organization and travel to supplier locations worldwide.
Why Bobcat? Be part of a team that creates tomorrow's solutions by partnering with world-class suppliers and supporting products that help people accomplish more every day.
Role & ResponsibilitySupply Management:
- Responsible for strategic development of their assigned suppliers.
- Must keep abreast of market conditions and changes within the supplier's organization that may affect our relationship.
- Experience with managing one commodity.
NPD Support:
- Support the organization on all new product development programs and value analysis/value engineering programs.
- Ensure that appropriate product launch plans are in place during the New Product Development phases including aftermarket.
Strategy:
- Development of Commodity strategies.
- Alignment and implementation of the strategies.
Project Support:
- Execution of project completion with mentoring.
- Project support on cross functional teams.
General Knowledge & Skills:
- Demonstrates ability to adapt to change and seeks out solutions and align with management.
- Ability to develop business cases, aggregating forecast trends data into actionable plans.
- Good knowledge of assigned Commodity
- Establish a strong reputation for delivering results and building credibility.
- Maintain a professional demeanor and composure when facing challenges.
- Foster strong and collaborative relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
Communication/Soft Skills:
- Must be able to communication with everyone within an organization necessary for the role and escalate to sourcing leadership when needed.
- Able to report business updates and supplier performance to management.
Job Requirement- Education Required: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering, or related fields.
- Experience Required: ~2+years.
- Degree in Supply Chain may replace experience.
- Travel Required: 20-40%
- Occasional global travel
- Must be able to communicate with everyone within an organization from persons on the shop floor to CEOs of major corporations.
- Must practice good judgement which allows the individual to commit to the most appropriate action after considering alternate courses of action.
- Must have leadership skills which will allow the commodity manager to persuade others to also accept this action and help implement the action plan.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
