About our client:
Our client is a multinational electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company providing design, manufacturing, and supply chain solutions worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Manages a team of Commodity Managers who have worldwide responsibility for a complex group of components or services.
• Provides guidance and support to the commodity manager during global negotiations of pricing, terms and conditions and monitoring of supplier performance.
• Provides guidance and support for worldwide product sourcing process.
• Maintains responsibility for development and execution of procurement strategies for a group of components or services.
• Manages complex and varied commodities in an environment of rapid global acquisitions.
• Establishes and drives strategic global bidding/initiatives while ensuring all sites interests are understood and accounted for.
• Maintains responsibility for commodity plans, supplier selection, quotation/contracting and supplier relationship management for high dollar commodities.
• Participates in Corporate Commodity Council meetings to provide updates on key measurements and to identify and lead implementation of strategic initiatives.
• Establishes ""rules of interaction"" between corporate & sites to establish commodity splits, reporting, responsibilities and overall communications.
• Facilitates process of making the material commitments on behalf of the Company worldwide.
• Mentors and educates staff in engineering concepts, financial analysis and world-wide marketplace.
• Manages a group of SCM employees or managers.
• Maintains responsibility for employee training, performance, measurement, development, motivation and recognition.
• Establishes department goals/ measurements and manages resources to achieve this goals.
• Drives continuous improvements of SCM function through interactions with other departments.

Requirements:

• Expert knowledge of the marketplace conditions for a broad range of strategic commodities in industry pricing, technology, supply/demand and emerging trends.
• Strong knowledge of the Company’s global supply chain including strategic policies and objectives and how they fit in.
• Excellent understanding of global business environment and Customers business, organization, products and processes.