Summary: This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to own a category, not just execute against it.
As a Commodity Manager, you'll act as the bridge between product innovation and supplier execution-bringing structure to fast-moving demand, managing vendor relationships, and helping translate sourcing strategy into day-to-day results.
What you will be doing...- Define multi-year strategy for ~2-4 priority commodities
- Identify opportunities in their commodities via changes in vendors, specs, or demand
- Manage and qualify the portfolio of suppliers in the category (including second tier suppliers)
- Track and monitor spend patterns and trends to identify opportunity
- Establish long-term agreements with select strategic partners that drive improved, service, quality, or cost savings
- Manage supplier performance
- Track vendor performance and report metrics for improvement
- Facilitate monthly meetings to communicate strategy and provide category updates
- Clarify specification and production concerns with vendor and act at the bridge between internal users and the vendor
- Execute strategy
- Carryout RFP processes and provide/present costing analysis to leaders across the company
- Work with Planning and Production teams to place jobs in accordance with supplier schedule/capabilities
- Partner with Quality to drive continuous improvement
- Prepare and execute purchase orders with suppliers
- Drive change initiatives within Procurement to develop and document best practices
- Stabilize day-to-day execution within a category
- Improve supplier coordination and responsiveness
- Bring structure to incoming demand and prioritization
What you will bring...- 7+ years experience initiating and negotiating supplier agreements
- Experience owning supplier relationships or categories, not just executing POs
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, evolving environments with competing priorities
- Strategic thinker with experience executing a Procurement process
- Proven ability to manage relationship with vendors
- Ability to perform spend analysis and interpret data into actionable steps
- Experience managing spend greater than $50 million
- Ability to communicate and present throughout all levels of the organization
- Advanced skills in Microsoft applications (experience with Oracle a plus)
- Demonstrated project management experience
- Excellent decision-making and organizational skills
- Sense of urgency and comfort working in a fast-paced environment
