Sr. Commodity Manager, 3rd Party Manufacturing & Brand Label
About The Position
The Senior Commodity Manager for 3rd Party Manufacturing and Brand Label develops and executes sourcing strategies to ensure supply continuity, quality performance, and cost competitiveness across externally manufactured and brand label product portfolios. The role leads supplier selection, negotiation, and lifecycle management for third-party manufacturing partners and brand label suppliers, aligning procurement objectives with business growth. The position leads commodity strategy, supplier negotiations, cost and productivity initiatives, supplier relationship management, and procurement workstreams for brand label and third-party-manufactured product introductions. It collaborates with regional and global commodity teams and internal stakeholders to optimize supplier performance and company-wide buying power. The role is based in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, in a hybrid work mode and involves 15–20% travel to North American operational sites and supplier facilities, mainly in North America.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business Administration, or Supply Chain.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in procurement, supply chain management, product management, or operations.
- Knowledge of strategic sourcing, category management, contract negotiations, cost modeling and financial analysis, supply chain and manufacturing, ERP systems, and data analytics.
- Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
Nice To Haves
- An engineering degree is advantageous but not mandatory.
- Growth mindset, willingness to embrace challenges, and persistence in overcoming obstacles.
- Strong problem-solving skills, extreme ownership, high self-motivation, and personal efficiency.
- Ability to use Microsoft Copilot AI tools for Excel file analysis and editing and repetitive tasks.
- Collaboration skills to facilitate cross-functional meetings with Product Development, Finance, and Operations to align on objectives, timelines, and deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute commodity and supplier strategy roadmaps.
- Lead strategic negotiations and long-term agreements, optimizing total cost of ownership.
- Ensure supply resiliency and supplier portfolio optimization through dual-sourcing and risk-mitigation strategies.
- Negotiate Master Procurement Agreements, including pricing, terms and conditions, and payment terms, in alignment with SI North America, the Purchasing Council, and Location Procurement.
- Lead cross-functional teams, including regional commodity managers, and oversee CNI (PPC—Price Performance Controlling) and MCP (Material Cost Productivity).
- Drive and monitor project progress and cost-savings implementation.
- Use supply market intelligence, Siemens Spend Pooling, and commercial and technical levers to drive productivity.
- Manage relationships with assigned suppliers, including pricing negotiations and performance monitoring against agreed terms and conditions.
- Collaborate with global commodity management and/or Product Management to optimize company-wide buying power by reviewing supplier financials, quality, pricing, service, and availability.
- Lead procurement workstreams for Brand Label and third-party manufacturing product introductions.
- Participate in PLM stage-gate reviews.
- Ensure procurement deliverables are completed before design freeze and launch milestones.
- Coordinate supplier engagement during product development.
- Support Make vs Buy decisions.
- Develop sourcing strategies that support business growth objectives.
- Drive supplier readiness and launch execution.
- Travel 15–20% to North American operational sites and supplier facilities, mainly in North America.
Benefits
- Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits; details are available through the Siemens benefits website.
- Target incentive of 15% of base salary.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
