What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Strategic Sourcing and Commodity Leader position at AdvanSix?
AdvanSix plays a critical role in global supply chains, innovating and delivering essential products for our customers in a wide variety of end markets and applications that touch people’s lives, such as building and construction, fertilizers, plastics, solvents, packaging, paints, coatings, adhesives, and electronics. Our reliable and sustainable supply of quality products emerges from the vertically integrated value chain of our three U.S. based manufacturing facilities. AdvanSix strives to deliver best-in-class customer experiences and differentiated products in the industries of nylon solutions, chemical intermediates, and plant nutrients, guided by our core values of Safety, Integrity, Accountability and Respect.
Please view a short video about our company here, AdvanSix Video . For more information on AdvanSix, please visit our website at http://www.advansix.com
Why work at AdvanSix?
The Senior Strategic Sourcing and Commodity Leader is responsible for the procurement of bulk chemical raw materials to support manufacturing operations. This role manages a significant spend of major commodity purchases including cumene, phenol, acetone, sulfur, and ketones used in chemical intermediates, fertilizers and nylon resins manufacturing.
This role is responsible for negotiating and executing long term supply agreements, managing SAP outline agreements, price forecasting, and generating purchase orders. This position also manages the day-to-day issues that arise across the assigned commodities, including changes in quantities, deliveries, and invoice reconciliation.
This role will build and maintain strong business relationships with segment, plant and functional stakeholders to develop holistic, business focused strategies that support AdvanSix business goals. This role will build and sustain strong supplier relationships that support financial, risk, and sustainability value drivers.
Duties And Responsibilities
Develop and maintain procurement category strategies for assigned raw materials with the mutual goals of minimizing supply risk while delivering financial productivity to support AdvanSix business objectives.
Communicate and align supply strategies with stakeholders and procurement leadership that include key industry trend insights.
Negotiate and manage multi-site supply agreements for assigned materials and other agreements as required.
Develop and maintain supplier relationships to adhere to contract obligations. Anticipate and engage business and operations leaders to solve potential supply shortages, supplier issues, and other potential failure modes.
Develop and present monthly price forecasts, supported by research into current and anticipated external market conditions.
Manage SAP Outline Agreements to facilitate automated PO transactions, PO issuance, and a purchase requisitions queue
Collaborate with supply chain teams to forecast purchase quantity requirements and to communicate with suppliers per contract obligations.
Contribute to working capital improvements through extending supplier pay terms or other options.
Deliver upon assigned individual, team and organizational metrics.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, engineering, business administration or related field. Chemical sourcing experience in lieu of degree will be considered.
7 years of procurement or commercial role in the energy, petrochemical, or related industries working within a matrixed organization.
Demonstrated experience with multi-year contracts, major contract management, and supplier negotiations.
Proven experience extracting relevant spend and market data, performing analytics, deriving insights on trends and savings opportunities, and presenting options and recommendations.
Applied skills using the MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams).
Preferred And Other Qualifications
MBA or Master’s degree
Prior procurement experience with chemical raw material inputs and value chains for a chemical manufacturer
SAP experience related to procurement responsibilities, such as outline agreements, purchase requisitions, and purchase orders.
Use of 3rd party chemical market analysis tools and resources to research industry, supplier, and competitor trends associated with raw materials
Experienced creative problem solver that approaches business problems with an open mind and applying curiosity to find effective solutions.
Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively to senior leadership.
Mindset of professional growth, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Demonstrated professionalism, respect, and high ethical standards
Demonstrated intelligent risk tasking and sound decision making
At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past work experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.
To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
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Please view a short video about our company here, AdvanSix Video . For more information on AdvanSix, please visit our website at http://www.advansix.com
Why work at AdvanSix?
- We provide benefits that are industry competitive and focused on employee well-being
- Total Rewards program includes a competitive compensation, health, dental, vision & wellness programs, paid vacation, 401K with company matching, health savings programs, disability & life insurance, employee assistance program
- Tuition reimbursement for continued education, certifications, training, and development
- Work within a fast paced and innovative company, meeting passionate colleagues and partners with diverse backgrounds and experiences
The Senior Strategic Sourcing and Commodity Leader is responsible for the procurement of bulk chemical raw materials to support manufacturing operations. This role manages a significant spend of major commodity purchases including cumene, phenol, acetone, sulfur, and ketones used in chemical intermediates, fertilizers and nylon resins manufacturing.
This role is responsible for negotiating and executing long term supply agreements, managing SAP outline agreements, price forecasting, and generating purchase orders. This position also manages the day-to-day issues that arise across the assigned commodities, including changes in quantities, deliveries, and invoice reconciliation.
This role will build and maintain strong business relationships with segment, plant and functional stakeholders to develop holistic, business focused strategies that support AdvanSix business goals. This role will build and sustain strong supplier relationships that support financial, risk, and sustainability value drivers.
Duties And Responsibilities
Develop and maintain procurement category strategies for assigned raw materials with the mutual goals of minimizing supply risk while delivering financial productivity to support AdvanSix business objectives.
Communicate and align supply strategies with stakeholders and procurement leadership that include key industry trend insights.
Negotiate and manage multi-site supply agreements for assigned materials and other agreements as required.
Develop and maintain supplier relationships to adhere to contract obligations. Anticipate and engage business and operations leaders to solve potential supply shortages, supplier issues, and other potential failure modes.
Develop and present monthly price forecasts, supported by research into current and anticipated external market conditions.
Manage SAP Outline Agreements to facilitate automated PO transactions, PO issuance, and a purchase requisitions queue
Collaborate with supply chain teams to forecast purchase quantity requirements and to communicate with suppliers per contract obligations.
Contribute to working capital improvements through extending supplier pay terms or other options.
Deliver upon assigned individual, team and organizational metrics.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, engineering, business administration or related field. Chemical sourcing experience in lieu of degree will be considered.
7 years of procurement or commercial role in the energy, petrochemical, or related industries working within a matrixed organization.
Demonstrated experience with multi-year contracts, major contract management, and supplier negotiations.
Proven experience extracting relevant spend and market data, performing analytics, deriving insights on trends and savings opportunities, and presenting options and recommendations.
Applied skills using the MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams).
Preferred And Other Qualifications
MBA or Master’s degree
Prior procurement experience with chemical raw material inputs and value chains for a chemical manufacturer
SAP experience related to procurement responsibilities, such as outline agreements, purchase requisitions, and purchase orders.
Use of 3rd party chemical market analysis tools and resources to research industry, supplier, and competitor trends associated with raw materials
Experienced creative problem solver that approaches business problems with an open mind and applying curiosity to find effective solutions.
Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and effectively to senior leadership.
Mindset of professional growth, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Demonstrated professionalism, respect, and high ethical standards
Demonstrated intelligent risk tasking and sound decision making
At AdvanSix, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past work experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification in the job posting, we encourage you to still apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
AdvanSix is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, veteran status, or any other protected classification.
To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of AdvanSix about this opening. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at AdvanSix via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of AdvanSix, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by AdvanSix for this position and a valid agreement with AdvanSix is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the AdvanSix agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.
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