Role Summary: The Commodity Site Leader contributes to define and implement the sourcing strategy of a group of commodities.
Essential Responsibilities: • Deploy, Optimize, and communicate a competitive commodity Global Sourcing strategy

• KPI’s to be reported to the Sourcing Team Leader
• Monitor & Improve Suppliers & Sourcing performance in Operations (Total Cost of ownership, Delivery, and Quality, Service level & Innovation)
• Assess supplier performances
• Develop and lead cost out ideas on each of his/ her commodity
• Cooperate with Commodity Buyers under the leadership of the Global Fulfillment Leader
• Contribute to define the global sourcing strategy
• Source goods with best suppliers and develop the suppliers' panels
• Negotiate T&C and any particular clauses
• Prepares forecast & backlog for her/his commodity
• Support development of best assumptions in tendering and product activities
• Support commodity co-design, standardization and rationalization actions
• Support discussions with suppliers during execution in case of claims, PO changes in coordination with Buyers who is the leader. Provide sourcing rules in Oracle
• Develop a strong relationship with Manufacturing, Engineering and Product Line teams to partner in driving key sourcing and business objectives around cost, cash, supplier quality, NPI and fulfillment
• Reduce risks in supply chain by mitigating sole source suppliers
• Drive emerging market growth strategy and localization requirements
• Collaborate with Materials team to drive standardization and continuous improvement of purchasing processes and cycle time reduction through consignment, VMI and Kanban strategies
• Drive business cash initiatives under the leadership of Finance
• Drive continuous improvement in the sourcing process with their stakeholders (engineering, ITO, fulfillment…)

Qualifications/Requirements: • Bachelor’s or Master’s (preferred option) degree in engineering, purchasing or business administration or equivalent knowledges and experiences

• Significant experience in Sourcing or Site activities supplier management, dealing with industrial activities and technical commodities
• Ability to work in English, in a global environment and matrix organization
• High negotiation skills
• Good communication & influencing skills
• Experiences in supplier selection & development

Desired Characteristics: • Good understanding of the business

• Ability to see around corners and be proactive
• Ability to work independently to achieve targets and objectives
• Self-directed, detail-oriented, organized, and flexible
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English
• Proven strategic and analytical skills
• Demonstrated leadership capability within a matrix organization
• Highly-motivated, results/metrics driven with demonstrated influencing skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Ability to identify and implement processes improvements and best practices
• Ability to coordinate multiple priorities at one time
• Working experience in the Energy industry is a plus

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