Commodity Manager (Energy)

ElDorado National California•Riverside, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Commodity Manager (Energy) reports to the Director of Strategic Sourcing and owns the end-to-end strategy, sourcing, commercial performance, supplier portfolio, and risk profile for assigned high-voltage battery commodities used in BESS and EV applications across the product lifecycle. The role translates business and product roadmaps into executable category strategies; leads make-versus-buy decisions, Sourcing Council governance, competitive sourcing, negotiations, contracting, and supplier quarterly business reviews; and delivers measurable cost, cash, quality, delivery, capacity, innovation, and resilience outcomes. The role works cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Program Management, Planning, Legal, and suppliers to support new product introduction, stable production, and long-term enterprise value. This is an onsite position based in Riverside, California, and requires 30% domestic and international travel. The listed salary range is $121,100–$140,520.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in supply chain, business, engineering, finance, operations, or a related discipline; an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience may be considered.
At least 7 years of progressive strategic sourcing, commodity, category, purchasing, or supplier-management experience in a manufacturing environment, including leadership of complex sourcing and negotiation workstreams.
Experience in supply chain, strategic sourcing, or automotive purchasing.
Familiarity with electric vehicle or hybrid architectures and high-voltage battery systems for automotive or BESS applications.
Demonstrated strategic sourcing, category management, commodity management, or supplier-management experience in an automotive OEM, Tier 1/Tier 2, or similarly complex global manufacturing environment.
Ability to build and execute commodity strategies using spend analytics, market intelligence, supplier segmentation, technology roadmaps, cost drivers, sourcing pipelines, and defined value and risk objectives.
Strong make-versus-buy and business-case capability, including internal capacity and investment, fixed and variable cost, quality, intellectual property, speed, scalability, sensitivity analysis, and post-decision validation.
Experience with Sourcing Council governance, decision rights, RACI, cross-functional supplier evaluation, approval workflows, decision logs, implementation ownership, and executive-level recommendation framing.
Advanced commercial and cost-management capability, including RFx, negotiation planning, total cost of ownership, should-cost and clean-sheet models, cost breakdowns, indexation, benchmarking, and value analysis/value engineering.
Working knowledge of supplier contracts and commercial terms covering pricing, payment, productivity, capacity, tooling, intellectual property, warranty, service, quality, change control, confidentiality, and termination.
Ability to lead supplier relationship management, executive reviews, quarterly business reviews, scorecards, corrective actions, supplier development, commercial escalation, and fact-based performance improvement.
Knowledge of automotive new product introduction and product lifecycle processes, including APQP, PPAP, tooling, capacity validation, engineering changes, launch readiness, obsolescence, and end-of-life management.
Strong financial, analytical, and systems skills using ERP/MRP, PLM, e-sourcing tools, Microsoft Excel, and business intelligence.
High-integrity matrix leadership with strong communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict resolution, change management, and judgment; able to influence technical and business leaders without relying on formal authority.
Able to travel 30% domestically and internationally.
Must be able to perform the essential job duties satisfactorily; reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would create an undue hardship.

Nice To Haves

Automotive OEM or Tier 1/Tier 2 experience with direct materials, product-cost management, and global or regional supplier portfolios.
CPSM, C.P.M., CSCP, CPIM, Lean/Six Sigma, or comparable sourcing, supply-chain, or continuous-improvement certification.

Responsibilities

Own and execute a multi-year commodity strategy aligned with product, technology, operations, sustainability, financial, and regional roadmaps; define preferred suppliers, sourcing waves, negotiation levers, and value targets.
Create fact-based spend and market intelligence covering demand, cost drivers, supply-demand dynamics, capacity, technology shifts, raw-material indices, regulatory trends, geographic exposure, and supplier financial health.
Lead make-versus-buy analyses with Operations, Engineering, and Finance; document assumptions, sensitivities, recommendations, approvals, and post-decision results.
Prepare and lead Sourcing Council reviews with complete sourcing cases, alternatives, weighted supplier evaluations, total-cost economics, risks, recommendations, implementation plans, and approval records.
Lead requests for information, quotation, and proposal; supplier due diligence; technical and commercial evaluation; negotiation; nomination; contracting; and transition.
Apply total cost of ownership, should-cost and clean-sheet models, cost breakdown analysis, benchmarking, index-based pricing, design-to-value, and value analysis/value engineering to identify and sustain structural cost improvements.
Partner with Legal and stakeholders to establish agreements covering pricing, productivity, payment terms, capacity, tooling, intellectual property, quality, warranty, service, change control, confidentiality, compliance, and termination.
Segment the supplier portfolio and lead executive and quarterly business reviews for strategic suppliers, tracking performance, actions, owners, due dates, escalations, and verified closure.
Build and deliver a Finance-validated value pipeline covering purchased-cost reduction, purchase price variance, cost avoidance, payment terms, tooling and nonrecurring expense, freight, inventory, and other total-cost opportunities.
Lead commodity sourcing for new product introduction, including early supplier involvement, RFQ timing, source nomination, APQP/PPAP alignment, tooling and capacity readiness, and launch risk closure.
Own supply continuity by identifying supplier, capacity, financial, geopolitical, raw-material, quality, logistics, and compliance risks and implementing dual-source, localization, buffer, or contingency strategies.
Coordinate constraint, allocation, capacity, and long-lead recovery with Planning, Operations, Logistics, and suppliers; secure credible commitments and escalate threats before production or customer impact.
Manage engineering-change, product-lifecycle, end-of-life, obsolescence, and last-time-buy commercial impacts while protecting continuity and minimizing excess, obsolete, and nonrecoverable inventory.
Maintain accurate approved-source, contract, pricing, supplier-master, ERP/MRP, tooling, forecast, and decision records; comply with ethical sourcing, conflict-of-interest, export, confidentiality, audit, and segregation-of-duties controls.
Lead cross-functional problem solving and continuous improvement using standard work, root-cause analysis, supplier development, lessons learned, and executive communication.
Meet performance expectations for strategy and governance, cost and total value, supplier performance and QBRs, risk and resilience, NPI and production readiness, leadership, and control.