Commodity Senior Sourcing Specialist

About the Role As the Commodity Senior Sourcing Specialist, you will lead strategic sourcing, total acquisition cost management, and supplier relationships to drive cost reduction and supply chain effectiveness. You will create and execute commodity strategies aligned with technology requirements, lead-time, capacity, inventory management, and risk mitigation, coordinating with global colleagues and functional areas such as Quality, Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Service Parts, and Logistics. What You'll Do

• Lead the evaluation and selection of new suppliers, development of existing suppliers, and overall supplier management.
• Develop competitive negotiations to drive cost reduction initiatives with the global supply base, while meeting capacity and quality requirements.
• Manage and negotiate supplier contracts and long-term agreements with preferred suppliers to ensure that market trends, supplier performance, and future business needs are aligned with strategies.
• Collaborate with supporting resources and internal customers (Manufacturing, Materials, Engineering, Distribution, global supply chain, and other functions as needed) to achieve plan, ensure adequate cycle time to procure materials, and escalate critical materials from supplier-based to meet customer demands.
• Anticipate, recognize, analyze and solve complex supply problems, communicating to and involving colleagues, management and stakeholders as necessary.
• Provide leadership in and develop an understanding of and insight into the market for the commodities assigned; including industry trends, cost drivers. What We're Looking For
• Lead the evaluation and selection of new suppliers, development of existing suppliers, and overall supplier management.
• Develop competitive negotiations to drive cost reduction initiatives with the global supply base, while meeting capacity and quality requirements.
• Manage and negotiate supplier contracts and long-term agreements with preferred suppliers to ensure that market trends, supplier performance, and future business needs are aligned with strategies.
• Collaborate with internal customers (Manufacturing, Materials, Engineering, Distribution, global supply chain, and other functions as needed) to achieve plan, ensure adequate cycle time to procure materials, and escalate critical materials from supplier-basis to meet customer demands.
• Anticipate, recognize, analyze and solve complex supply problems, communicating to and involving colleagues, management and stakeholders as necessary.
• Provide leadership in and develop an understanding of and insight into the market for the commodities assigned; including industry trends, cost drivers.