Commodity Manager Jobs

Do you enjoy developing new and creative ways to drive vision and improvement through strategies and initiatives around service, quality, and cost? If you do, Delta Faucet Company has an excellent opportunity for you to join our Indianapolis corporate Supply Chain team!

Purpose

The Commodity Manager leads and collaborates closely internally with a cross-functional team to build commodity strategies and then implements to achieve desired goals and initiatives. In addition, this position is responsible for building and sustaining relationships with direct material suppliers to deliver products that consistently meet or exceed supplier performance goals and evaluates how the relationship fits into the overall supply objectives. In this role, you will be encouraged to think creatively and come up with innovative ways of doing things. You will develop a complete understanding of the global supply base and related cost drivers for specified commodities.

Responsibilities

In this position, you will have responsibility over sourcing strategies deployed globally to enable best-in-class service, cost, quality and working capital returns.

• Works closely with cross-functional areas of quality, value management, engineering, marketing, operations, and finance to ensure alignment and execution of action plans, maximizing the company’s goals while minimizing overall internal risks.
• Establishes the vision of the commodity(s) through development of objectives and strategies.
• Adherence to compliance and department standard work.
• Shared support to other Commodity Managers and team members to build foundational systems and business process knowledge needed for career advancement.
• Initiate RFQs for new product development (NPD) and engineering change activities and award business per strategy.
• Performs special projects, stretch assignments, ad-hoc management requests and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manages supplier on time shipping/delivery (OTS/D), rejected parts per million (RPPM), business practices, lead time and PPAP approval metrics.
• Implements cost saving initiatives using various approaches such as: value management, bidding, analytical modeling, supplier development and continuous improvement (Lean/Six Sigma).
• Supports related cross-functional supply chain activities.

Education & Experience

• Travel required: 10%-15% domestic travel and possibly up to 10% international travel.
• Demonstrated experience with commodity or supplier strategy development and deployment required.
• Bachelor's degree with an emphasis in Business, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or related field.
• Understanding of continuous improvement tools (Lean or Six Sigma).
• Excellent negotiation, problem solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Proficient use of SAP (or equivalent ERP), Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams). Experience in Smartsheet and Power BI reporting are preferred.
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively in a cross functional team setting.
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities.
• CPSM or APICS certification is preferred.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Delta Faucet Company, we view diversity as a mosaic of thoughts and perspectives that come from people’s varied cultural backgrounds, experiences, education, career paths and other influences that make each of us unique. For us, inclusion means welcoming differing opinions, collaborating, allowing people to come to work as who they are and recognizing everyone’s contributions. We know that in a diverse, inclusive company, ideas flow freely, all voices are heard and all perspectives are valued. Delta Faucet Company continuously strives to be this kind of organization. Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) supports our inherent values, makes us more relevant to customers and consumers and inspires innovation. It is not a goal or a program; it is a vital ingredient in our formula for success and a key to our future growth.

Company: Delta Faucet Company

Full time

Hiring Range: $70,200.00 - $110,330.00

Actual compensation may vary based on various factors including experience, education, geographic location, and/or skills.

Delta Faucet Company (the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we want to have the best available persons in every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company’s policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

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