Commodity Manager Indirect
Role Overview
Leads sourcing strategies, supplier management, cost optimization, contract negotiations, and procurement across assigned indirect-spend categories.
Works with Operations, Engineering, Finance, HR, IT, Facilities, and other stakeholders to maximize procurement value while maintaining quality, service, compliance, and supply continuity.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Leads sourcing strategies, supplier management, cost optimization, contract negotiations, and procurement across assigned indirect-spend categories.
Works with Operations, Engineering, Finance, HR, IT, Facilities, and other stakeholders to maximize procurement value while maintaining quality, service, compliance, and supply continuity.
Responsibilities
- Develop sourcing and commodity strategies, category roadmaps, and plans for indirect categories, including MRO, facilities, professional services, IT services, CapEx support, and logistics.
- Analyze spend, suppliers, pricing, demand, and procurement data; lead sourcing events, supplier evaluation, selection, and onboarding.
- Negotiate commercial and contract terms; manage supplier relationships, KPIs, scorecards, reviews, escalations, disputes, and performance improvement.
- Drive savings, cost avoidance, supplier consolidation, demand pooling, standardization, specification optimization, and value engineering.
- Track savings and procurement results; maintain governance, contract compliance, accurate sourcing records, and procurement documentation.
- Support Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay processes, cross-functional initiatives, and regional or global projects.
- Monitor market conditions and supply risks; develop risk-mitigation and continuity strategies and identify digitalization and process-improvement opportunities.
Requirements
- Relevant experience in strategic procurement, commodity management, indirect procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or supply chain management; typically 5+ years.
- Strong experience managing indirect categories and strategic supplier portfolios, with a track record in cost reduction, sourcing, negotiation, and commercial optimization.
- Knowledge of procurement processes, category management, supplier relationships, contract terms, governance, risk, and supply-market analysis.
- Strong analytical, data-analysis, negotiation, influencing, communication, stakeholder-management, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Experience managing supplier KPIs, scorecards, business reviews, and improvement initiatives; ability to handle multiple sourcing projects.
- Experience in complex supply-chain environments and multi-site, regional, or global procurement is advantageous.
- SAP, Ariba, Coupa, ERP, Excel, Power BI, sustainable procurement, ESG, and supplier-risk knowledge are listed as advantageous or preferred.
- A bachelor's degree in a related field is preferred; an MBA or CIPS, CPSM, or equivalent qualification is advantageous. Strong English communication skills are required; additional languages are advantageous.
What the employer offers
- Strategic procurement work with global and regional suppliers, complex sourcing projects, and commercial negotiations.
- Opportunity to influence business spend and participate in procurement transformation, digitalization, supplier governance, and supply-risk management.
- Professional training, CIPS/CPSM development, mentorship, career advancement, competitive compensation, performance incentives, and benefits.
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