
Commodity Manager/Buyer
- Italia
- Tempo indeterminato
- Full time
- Developing and executing long term strategies for the assigned commodity, ensuring best performance for procurement KPI
- Integrating commodity strategies into product leadership, engineering and manufacturing objectives.
- For New Product Development, driving supplier selection, development, and overall supplier management with support of engineering, product leadership or other sourcing team in accordance with the business strategy
- Partnering and being a point of reference for Product Leadership, Sales and Engineering for product strategy of the assigned commodity
- Developing negotiation strategies and leading negotiations to achieve stated goals and objectives of supply chain for Single PO as well as Strategic Partnership
- Negotiating and issuing purchase orders with suppliers achieving lowest possible cost for material, balanced against optimum quality and schedule needs
- Developing Sourcing initiatives for cost out program, deflation, cycle reduction, BCC Sourcing and cash flow improvement (e.g. rebate, payment terms)
- Leveraging S&OP data to match and optimize supplier capacity with business goals
- Bachelor’s/Master degree from an accredited university or college in Engineering or Economic with experience in procurement or commodity management
- Show a good experience in Procurement, Operations, Supply Chain
- English and Italian fluent, both in writing and speaking
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Analytical mindset with a proven ability to resolve problems and identify solutions
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Positive attitude to embrace change and see challenge as opportunity
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Demonstrated ability to cope with multiple complex situations daily
- Negotiation expertise
- Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs
- Availability to travel