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- Understand and effectively communicate global business trends & drivers (technological & business footprints).
- Segment and define supply base to support trends and drivers.
- Possess knowledge of supply market trends and characteristics (e.g., associations, conferences, etc.)
- Define commodity strategies to achieve corporate, purchasing & BU goals/objectives. Should include supply base rationalization, development & spend management/segmentation for geographic considerations, Best Cost Country (BCC)/Minority Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) objectives, BU/plant-specific needs, new technologies, marketing/product strategies and cost management goals.
- Facilitate semi-annual commodity strategy meetings to cross-functional/cross-business audience.
- Act as the Business Plan, forecast and strategic plan manager for the BUs.
- Utilize commodity expertise and Commodity strategies to create/update Business Plans and Strategic Plan Metrics: incl. Cost reduction, Quality, OTD, BCC, Logistics, etc
- Serve as single-point-of-contact for Plan development, forecasts and reconciliation.
- Provide recover mechanisms for cost drives, when necessary.
- Align plans with BU plans via BU purchasing manager or directors.
- Develop Supplier Partnerships/Strategic Alliances as necessary to support/enhance commodities strategies.
- Serve as focal point for escalation of all related supplier relationship issues.
- Drive supplier bidlist and sourcing approval NPI process
- Maintain supplier status related to scorecards, business drivers and developmental needs.
- Manage/drive commodity review of projects for all relevant commodity activities.
- Manage cross-functional team (incl. BU and Purchasing functions).
- Link the global buy (current & future) and create the highest leverage across commodities.
- Set negotiation strategies and provide direction for commodity negotiations and include appropriate cross functional team members.
- Manage cost recoveries, as necessary.
- Enforce DRiV supplier requirements.
- As Contract Sponsor, negotiate, create, maintain & enforce all commodity supplier contracts.
- Maintain price tables and/or manage requisitions for pricing related to commodity contracts/negotiations.
- Determine contract levels and related criteria for commodities.
- Store contracts per DRiV policy.
- Coordinate with DRiV legal team to ensure contractual obligations minimize risk to the Company.
- Purchasing participant on Advanced Technology projects related to commodities – negotiate upfront with supplier technology partners to mitigate downstream risk.
- Utilize Advanced Technology knowledge to set technological direction for commodity strategies.
- Define and execute skill sets to achieve commodity goals and objectives.
- Balance resources to accommodate BU/plant-specific and geographical commodity requirements.
- Execute performance reviews, personnel issues, training, etc. as required (if applicable)
- Travel to suppliers and other DRiV facilities as required for this position.
- The authority to initiate action to prevent the occurrence of non-conformities relating to the product, process and quality system and the authority to stop further work on non-conforming suspect product until the deficiency or conditions have been corrected.
- Abide by the location’s EH&S policy endorsed by the local management, comply with the legal and other requirements and operational controls established under its EHSMS, work toward achieving established objectives and targets, and conform to procedures consistent with the ISO 14001 standard. Report, and if necessary stop, any activity that does not conform to the policy or may injure himself/herself.
- Capable of providing any other additional support as requested by supervisor.
- Other relative tasks as assigned
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