Global Commodity Management Professional

Trimble • Westminster, CO

8d • Onsite

About The Position

Are you a visionary commodity management professional ready to shape the future of global technology? Join Trimble’s Corporate team to lead high-impact commodity strategies that bridge the gap between innovative design and world-class manufacturing, ensuring our life-changing products reach the global market with precision and scale. About Us Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. What Makes This Role Great: In this position, you won’t just manage vendors—you will be a strategic architect of Trimble’s supply chain. You have the unique opportunity to influence the entire Product Life Cycle, from initial NPI design to end-of-life, while nurturing executive-level supplier relationships and driving global cost-reduction initiatives that directly impact our bottom line.

Requirements

• Proven Expertise: 4+ years of progressive experience in Supply Chain and Commodity Management, supporting product lifecycles from NPI through production.
• Strategic Communicator: Ability to articulate vision and strategy to cross-functional Design and Product teams as well as executive management.
• Negotiation Powerhouse: Demonstrated history of delivering cost-reduction results through global leveraging and specification optimization.
• Foundational Knowledge: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or a business-related field preferred; however, equivalent professional experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Analytical Proficiency: Expert-level skills in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with Quality methods like process capability and statistical process control.

Nice To Haves

• Professional certifications such as CPM or CPIM.
• Experience managing LCR (Local Content Requirement) transitions in accordance with cost and timing goals.

Responsibilities

• Architect Commodity Strategies: Develop and communicate a strategic vision that provides best-in-class pricing and material support flexibility across global regions.
• Champion Innovation: Partner with Product Development and NPI teams to ensure technology roadmaps converge, meeting critical time-to-market and performance requirements.
• Cultivate Strategic Alliances: Nurture high-level executive relationships with suppliers, driving performance through sophisticated scorecarding and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Optimize Global Impact: Lead complex negotiations and cost-reduction initiatives through global leverage, design optimization, and yield improvements.
• Ensure Supply Resilience: Proactively identify risks and implement creative contingency plans, including buffer stock and VMI programs, to guarantee uninterrupted continuity of supply.

Benefits

• Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans.
• Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees