Commodity Specialist

**Main Duties (Leading and/or Supporting)**:

- Liaising with peers from other functions and businesses.
- Leads or supports cross-functional teams in conducting Make v Buy exercises and developing and deploying commodity strategies.
- These strategies include:

- direct and indirect spend commodities,
- Target Return on Investment (ROI),
- Commodity risk management,
- Service levels, and
- Approved/preferred suppliers.
- Engages with Stakeholder Functional leads regarding supplier bid and selection criteria.
- Participates or Leads in supplier assessments and supplier development activity teams, including the administration of appropriate due diligence activity
- Leverages commodity opportunities and synergies across.
- Ensures that strategies are in alignment with market conditions, requirements, goals and growth plans.
- Leverages supplier and industry capabilities in conjunction with Stakeholder functions to align functional strategies and identify gaps to link supplier capabilities with requirements.
- Leading the development of Commodity Agreements
- Leading the development and management of tenders. Performs or supports cost and price analysis, develops negotiation strategies, and leads negotiations in order to create value for money outcomes for procuring goods and services
- Creates business cases/ briefing materials for management reviews
- Works with suppliers and functional stakeholders to achieve collaborative partnering, strategic relationship management to deliver required service level KPIs
- Establishes and manages supplier relationships to include supplier continuous improvement/development goals.
- Executes to customer requirements including government regulations, public law and company policies and procedures.
- Actively promotes the contributions that the function can make to achieving corporate objectives across the organisation, with stakeholders and with the supply chain
- Continually assesses and promotes sustainable and responsible procurement, including social, cultural and diversity values in the organisation and throughout the supply chain
- Evaluates the challenges faced by the organisation and the supply chains and takes action to mitigate risks and to develop opportunities
- Utilises project management skills and techniques when managing suppliers
- Evaluates the challenges faced by the organisation and the supply chains and takes action to mitigate risks and to develop opportunities
- Responsible via subordinate personnel to place all non-Production requirements on suppliers in an expeditious and efficient manner in line policies and commodity strategies and to ensure the execution of the orders

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Essential:

- Experience in Subcontract Management, Procurement, Commodity and / or related field
- Mechanical, OEM, PCB/PCAs, Magnetics, Electronics, Electrical
- Related degree/ MCIPS / BA / MBA / B.Eng / M.Eng / MSc or equivalent
- A strategic mindset is required with proven demonstrated experience
- Experience of creating / developing Commodity strategies and turning them into operational reality
- Flexible and positive attitude
- Able to perform effectively in a multi-functional team
- Excellent verbal and written communications
- Experience of problem solving and dispute resolution
- Excellent verbal and written communications and ability to brief at mid/senior level
- Good negotiation skills
- Good presentation skills and confidence in delivering presentations to key stakeholders
- Strong business / commercial acumen
- Create and execute various types of Supplier / teaming / framework agreements
- Experience of running supplier competitions
- Experience of developing and managing Subcontractor Relationship Management (SRM) and collaborative working
- Experience of working with complex international suppliers / programmes
- Experience or knowledge of MRP, SAP and purchase order placement/ material receipt processes***

**Desirable**:

- 6 Sigma / Lean process improvement skillset
- Experience as Control Account Manager
- Understanding of ITAR and its implications
- Understanding or exposure of legal terms within a contract