Commodity Manager - Telecom, Tapes, & Components

Prysmian Group•Highland Heights, KY

About The Position

At Prysmian Group, we offer our employees opportunities to sharpen their skills every day through rich assignments, focused performance-driven training and a highly interactive, relationship-driven team environment. Our employees are exposed to a wide range of experiences and are encouraged to express their ideas for continuous improvement. About this role As the Commodity Manager you will develop creative vendor and sourcing strategies that drive consistent, secure, and competitively priced supply of raw materials. Manage and grow supplier relationships to deliver industry leading supply arrangements with preferred industry companies. Coach and lead a high performing team that successfully executes strategic sourcing strategies to achieve commercial, operational, and financial management plan targets. Develop and maintain commodity market and industry analysis to drive tactical decisions, along with annual goal planning, that meets our strategic and financial objectives.

Requirements

A Bachelors’ Degree in Procurement/Business/Supply Chain or a relevant field
5 years of experience with large spend purchasing agreements or commodity category management.
Experience with direct purchasing at values of at least $100M
Experience with Global Organizations
Experience working with multiple plants.

Nice To Haves

6-10 years of experience with large spend purchasing agreements or commodity category management.
Experience with direct purchasing at values of at least $100M

Responsibilities

Builds and strengthens relationships with current suppliers to ensure consistent supply of material.
Identifies upcoming needs, changes within the supplier, and key contacts to develop cost savings and security of supply opportunities.
Works collaboratively across the organization and serves as a conduit to supplier to ensure company’s commercial, operational, and financial needs are met.
Shares information and best practices with peers and assists with developing supplier solutions to meet company Management Plan objectives, improving internal systems workflows, and mentoring others to achieve success
Develop commodity strategy to deliver long-term consistency, security, and competitively priced supply.
Search for new supplier options in commodities where competitive pricing, security of supply, or multiple source arrangements are needed.
Make introductory calls and utilize consultative engagement skills to qualify potential suppliers and assess capabilities.
Develop relationships with key contacts and gain access to next level buying influences.
Facilitate interactions and coordinate the flow of information between supplier and company representatives from procurement, supply chain, operations, R&D, and commercial teams, when necessary.
Negotiate pricing and supply agreements, terms and conditions, and other assorted purchasing requirements with suppliers.
Maintain and share with cross-functional teams operational T&C’s for key supplier agreements.
Address material shortages and balance expedited deliveries as required by the business.
Collaborate with R&D department and suppliers to identify raw material alternatives that deliver enhanced security of supply, cost savings, simplification, or other commercial and/or operational benefit (DTC projects, new product development, etc.).
Maintain regular communication with commercial teams including the sharing of supplier price and service letters along with any upcoming supply issues, outages, and potential business disruptions.
Manage and mentor commodity specialists in their roles including aiding their development of goals and objectives.
Guide commodity specialists in executing their goals to deliver commercial and operational results that meet or exceed annual objectives.
Collaborate with Human Resources to provide proper training and resources to enable commodity specialists to grow and succeed in their roles.
Provide feedback regularly to ensure behavior is aligned with expectations.
Keep abreast of market and supplier trends along with competitive activities.
Provide feedback on suppliers, strategies, untapped opportunities, threats and what is working and not working in the marketplace to key business stakeholders in procurement, R&D, and commercial teams.
Participate in annual Management Plan process including setting the raw material pricing for the company each year.