Global Commodity Manager

Celestica • San Jose, CA

1d • Remote

About The Position

Celestica is seeking a Global Commodity Manager to guide team leaders and professionals, develop three to five-year plans, and craft departmental policies. This role involves establishing goals, recommending policy enhancements, and contributing to budgeting processes to minimize costs and avoid delays. The position requires supervising a team, coordinating departmental activities, making hiring and firing decisions, providing performance reviews, and fostering professional growth through coaching. Building strong cross-functional relationships and negotiating effectively with peers, subordinates, and senior managers is crucial. Cultivating positive relationships with customers and suppliers is also essential.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 7 years in Commodity Management.
• Experience in managing high dollar semiconductor commodity or equivalent electronics components highly advantageous.
• Good knowledge of the marketplace conditions on high dollar semiconductor commodity or equivalent electronics.
• Good understanding of global business environment and high dollar semiconductor suppliers' business, organization, products and processes.
• Strong knowledge of office systems and analytical tools.
• Ability to lead complex negotiations effectively.
• Strong ability to work effectively across internal functions to achieve Celestica's goals.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Maintains global and/or regional responsibility for strategic high dollar semiconductor commodity or equivalent for price/value determination, product and/or service negotiations, terms, and conditions.
• Develops and implements a procurement strategy for the commodities managed, including technology direction, supplier analysis, development and selection, and pricing strategy.
• Acts as primary interface with Celestica’s suppliers for all relationship management, contract negotiation, establishing the business framework for transactions, performance reviews, business development, and supplier awards programs.
• Sources all products and services, maintaining a continuity of supply, while delivering the lowest cost component or service solution.
• Provides global sites direction and performance reporting for cost analysis to senior management.
• Leads negotiations for commodities managed, providing guidance on negotiations strategy and negotiations planning, developing a commodity strategy, and presentations/communication of consistent message to suppliers.
• Has frequent interaction and negotiation with senior executives of industry-leading multi-national companies.
• Manages the Global Commodity Negotiation process ensuring accurate forecasting and pricing accuracy.
• Manages data flow for pricing fluctuations in market and analytical tools including development and maintenance of Commodity Management systems applications.
• Conducts strategic analysis on pricing, the market, suppliers, customers, competitors, contracts, and long-term agreements.
• May act as site liaison to manage critical shortage, develop strategies on constrained commodities and represent site to manage related systems changes that have broad effect on execution of purchasing responsibilities.
• Drives process improvement, leads development of IT tools for group, defines business processes and implements new tools/processes.
• Performs bid activity for sensitive/highly visible complex bids.

Benefits

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Celestica’s policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.
• This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated.
• All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

What This Job Offers

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