What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Strategic Sourcing Commodity position at Wastequip?
Responsibilities
- Leverage companywide spend in all steel and resin related spend categories by performing strategic negotiations with suppliers
- Track, report and negotiate against related commodity indexes
- End to End accountability and interface for defining and executing category and supplier strategy with stakeholders and cross functional team to meet performance and procurement deliverables
- Deliver category annual Total Cost of Ownership reductions per the procurement annual plan
- Act as lead negotiator for all major commodity business performance-based contracts that reward or penalize the ability to achieve Wastequip’s business needs
- Manage risk and minimize financial risk by establishing supplier business continuity plans
- Provide monthly forecast to key suppliers to assist with product availability
- Partner with Wastequip divisions and business units to protect their interests and minimize their risks
- Maintain appropriate inventory levels by working with supplier, buyers and plant locations
- Reduce lead times for related products to minimize changes in commodity pricing
- Negotiate long term agreements with best price, payment terms, quality levels, and delivery terms for purchased commodity based products in compliance with corporate objectives
Qualifications
- Minimum of 2 years strategic sourcing experience in Steel commodities, and Polyethylene Resin commodities
- Project Management and/or Operations experience preferred
- Sourcing of materials, products, and components. Experience with products/components, and subcomponents for the waste equipment (or similar industry) is preferred
- Demonstrated experience successful “Make Vs Buy” analysis resulting in cost savings
- Experience in identifying and prequalifying new suppliers
- Knowledge of tariffs, duties, and import / export regulations to assure compliance and minimize costs
- Bachelor’s degree required in Business, Engineering or Supply Chain
- Experience operating successfully with metrics and a high degree of organizational agility
