Commodity Manager
Viking Pump HygienicIf you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.
With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Develop, prioritize, and execute short-term and long-term commodity strategies that reduce supply chain complexity and achieve continuous material productivity improvements. Identify and develop strategic supply bases for critical components while also reducing overall supply-chain complexity.
Location - Preferably Ireland / UK / Europe
Hybrid / Remote
Salary Range - 65K to 85K depending on experience / skills
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and execute commodity strategies that achieves quality, delivery, cost and inventory targets within respective commodities.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, fostering collaboration and alignment on risk management strategies.
- Analyze current market conditions, geo-political environment and incorporate into commodity strategies to effectively mitigate supply chain risk.
- Negotiate agreements with suppliers of assigned global commodities ensuring that the best total cost is realized.
- Contracts will include such items, as discounts, payment terms, shipping terms, stocking agreements, quality parameters, service requirements, supply chain connections and other items deemed valuable.
- Utilize 80/20 mindset to establish strategies and identify opportunities to reduce product and supply base complexity for assigned commodities.
- Lead cross-functional project teams to implement product complexity reduction and improvement.
- Manage Global supply base and incorporate supply chain management tools to continually improve supplier performance and drive internal efforts to resolve supplier issues.
- Assist product teams in gaining a competitive advantage by incorporating product roadmaps, current market conditions and new technologies within their commodities. Continually assess and evaluate new suppliers.
- Develop and nurture strong and collaborative relationships with Viking Cedar Falls supply chain and production teams to ensure continuity of supply on critical components and pumps.
- Collaborate with global cross-functional teams to align resilience strategies with production planning, inventory management, and logistics operation
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