Enterprise Commodity Manager

Enterprise Commodity Manager

Roush is searching for an Enterprise Commodity Manager to join our Supply Chain team! This person will serve as the resource and commodity expert; establishing a team to lead cost reduction and sourcing efforts globally as well as manage overall relationships with suppliers. This position is located in Livonia, MI.

As an Enterprise Commodity Manager, you will :

• Manage a variety of up to 30 or more commodity codes across multiple industries and utilizing different procurement strategies to meet unique requirements. (Standard of Tier 1 commodity codes management is approximately 15 per ECM).
• Facilitate the resolution of RFWs on incoming material between the supply base and internal Supplier Quality team, ensuring compliance with quality standards.
• Manage and resolve Quality Defect Notices (QDNs) and any subsequent commercial remedies as applicable, ensuring quality standards are met and maintained.
• Manage large volume of part numbers (PNs) for procurement; estimated approximately 15,000PNs per year.
• Plan Commodity Manager (CM) workload to ensure they are executing key monthly deliverables like cost, quality, delivery and launch metrics including sourcing on time, resolving match exceptions, resolving material shortages, etc.
• Lead the CM team to develop and execute sourcing strategies that meet program objectives.
• Lead the CM's in the development of negotiation strategies and review / approve all supply agreements. Assist in managing the overall relationship for strategic suppliers.
• Work collaboratively with all stakeholders to build strong relationships by seeking input, finding common ground, and building trust to ensure early involvement of the purchasing function to optimize overall impact, and provide services such as multiple quotation iterations to best serve customers.
• Lead CM's in establishing a cross-business commodity strategy / Approved Supplier List.
• Develop CM's to Roush standards and expectations (reference processes / procedures / culture etc.) and managing their performance to department objectives.
• Ensure CM's are conducting supplier performance review meetings to monitor effectiveness of the strategy and make changes where appropriate.
• Benchmark procurement processes and develop & implement best practices / continuous improvement initiatives.
• Exercise GD&T fundamentals for prints and provide recommendations.

To be considered an Enterprise Commodity Manager, you will need :

A successful candidate may also have :