Commodity Manager

Role purpose

Key responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard suppliers; maintain approved supplier status and source from best-cost countries where appropriate.
• Obtain quotations and develop dual-source and alternative-source strategies to reduce supply risk.
• Manage procurement and material scheduling for production plans and customer deliveries.
• Maintain supplier, pricing, and lead-time records in ERP; share forecasts and monitor capacity, shortages, and constraints.
• Maintain material costs in the Bill of Materials and support make-versus-buy decisions with cost analysis.
• Negotiate commercial terms and manage supplier relationships, performance reviews, contracts, escalations, and improvement plans.
• Lead cost-reduction, sourcing, value-engineering, and improvement projects and analyze supplier and ERP performance data.
• Lead and develop a small procurement team and support departmental continuous-improvement objectives.

Person specification

• Degree in Business, Engineering, Materials, Supply Chain, or a related discipline, or experience in a senior materials role in manufacturing.
• Proven contract-preparation and best-cost-country sourcing experience.
• People-management experience and proficiency in Excel.
• Influencing, persuasive, problem-solving, interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Demonstrated project-management, supplier relationship-management, and supplier-negotiation skills.
• Willing to undertake and provide training as required; flexible and adaptable.
• Proven procurement management experience in a high-quality manufacturing environment.

Work location

• The role can be based at Wrightbus operational sites in Ballymena, Bicester, or Banbury.

Benefits

• Benefits listed include a discretionary bonus, life insurance, Medicash scheme, local business discounts, canteen, career progression, professional development, and flexitime.