Incumbents apply in-depth knowledge in a specific area of specialization. Work is performed within established professional standards and practices. Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors and a considerable degree of judgement.
Requirements
- Maintains global and/or regional responsibility for a complex commodity or group of commodities for price/value determination, product and/or service negotiations, terms and conditions, supplier relationship development and performance.
- Develops and executes a procurement strategy for commodity or services including competitive benchmarking, technology direction, supplier analysis, development, selection and pricing strategy.
- Responsible for all product or service sourcing.
- Participates in the Commodity Council Corporate negotiation teams or individually.
- Quotes and negotiates quarterly all products or major services either regionally or globally.
- Conducts customer bids within the response time objectives.
- Responsible for supplier performance reviews including performance reviews, business development and supplier awards programs.
- Has frequent interaction and negotiation with senior executives of industry leading multi-national companies.
- Provides support to their internal customers to resolve quality, serviceability and performance related issues.
- Identifies the supply vs.demand for all allocated products and communicate the proportioning of these items by geography and customer.
- Consolidates and escalates all critical shortages and resolves issues.
- Provides product cost support for products in assigned geographies.
- Prepares bids including generation of BOM, cost analysis, negotiate with suppliers, and present bids to management.
- Updates material prices database, analyze bill of materials for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management.
- Provides guidance to less experienced Commodity Management staff.
- Provides guidance to counterparts at the sites to ensure process compliance.
