Global Commodity Manager

Celestica International LP • San Jose, CA

10h • Remote

About The Position

Celestica is seeking a Global Commodity Manager to join their dynamic team. This role involves guiding team leaders and professionals, developing three to five-year plans, and crafting departmental policies. The position requires strategic planning, goal setting aligned with company objectives, and policy enhancement recommendations. The Global Commodity Manager will be involved in budgeting processes to minimize costs and avoid delays, supervise a team, coordinate departmental activities, make hiring and firing decisions, provide performance reviews, and foster professional growth through coaching. Strong cross-functional relationship building and negotiation skills are essential for collaborating with peers, subordinates, and senior managers. Cultivating positive relationships with customers and suppliers is also a key aspect of this role.

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 the 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 negotiation strategy and planning, developing a commodity strategy, and presentations/communication of a 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 shortages, develop strategies on constrained commodities, and represent the site to manage related systems changes that have broad effect on the execution of purchasing responsibilities.
• Drives process improvement, leads the development of IT tools for the group, defines business processes, and implements new tools/processes.
• Performs bid activity for sensitive/highly visible complex bids.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity consideration for all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Confidentiality of all information according to EEO guidelines.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior