Commodity Manager - Metals

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Commodity Manager – Metals:

Navico Group is a stand-alone division of Brunswick, the world’s largest recreational marine business. We are seeking a Commodity Manager to join our team in Greater Grand Rapids, MI or Greater Milwaukee, WI. The primary responsibility of this position will be to serve as the supply chain and sourcing expert for metals and metal processing. Reporting to the Sr. Manager of commodity management for metals, you will support the strategic objectives of metals globally and implement local execution plans to achieve supply continuity at the optimal cost.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support compliance and certification to applicable standards for marine.
• Perform key supplier visits to evaluate capabilities and technologies with support of supplier quality and engineering.
• Maximize the utilization of electronic tools throughout the sourcing process with your supply base.
• Manage assigned commodity categories through domestic, offshore, and intercompany suppliers. Drive transition of spending to low-cost regions when risk and total cost analysis justifies.
• Identify and implement accurate standard costs and execute on cost savings opportunities to include price, responsiveness, and agility, while leveraging size and scale of Navico group or Brunswick.
• Negotiate and manage the trade-off between MRP, Inventory, and EOQ’s.
• Lead supplier development and continuous process improvement, resolve non-conformance quality, delivery, or lead time issues, establish performance scorecard, and facilitate monthly or quarterly business reviews with top tier suppliers. Serve as escalation point for material shortages and resolution.
• Contract review, development, management (NDA’s, MSA’s, SOW’s, etc.).
• Maintain departmental records, files, and information systems to ensure efficiency and productivity.
• Set a strategic supply chain plan for each product line and/or commodity.
• Lead or participate in cross-functional/cross-organizational sourcing, new product development, and capital projects to achieve revenue and profitable growth objectives.
• Cultivate supplier relationships; suppliers must meet cost, payment terms, quality, and delivery requirements to become and maintain approved status.
• Execute a sourcing strategy to include negotiation, contracting and ongoing supplier value management for continuous improvement. The Commodity Manager modifies commodity sourcing strategy and tactics based upon monitoring, analyzing and synthesizing changes to the internal business needs and external supply market drivers accordingly to achieve best total cost. This position will coordinate global activities across multiple sites/business units.
• With assistance from technical staff, continuously survey the market for new suppliers and emerging technologies and creating business case for transitions.

Education and Experience Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree required, preferred fields: Supply Chain/Operations Management,

Business, Engineering.

Skill Requirements:

• Experience managing multiple cross-functional projects in a fast-paced global business environment is essential
• International and domestic logistics knowledge
• Sourcing/Supply Chain of metals within Global markets
• Experience with gated product development processes
• 3-5 years of procurement or strategic sourcing experience with castings, extrusions, fab metal components
• Ability to influence, build relationships, and communicate effectively across the organization
• Sound knowledge of following software: MS Office suite, ERP’s (COPICS, Oracle, Syteline preferred)
• Proven track record of utilizing metrics and pareto analysis to drive continuous improvement
• Strong attention to detail, highly organized
• International compliance knowledge
• Demonstrated organizational skills, project planning and management, team building, and experience with a wide variety of structured problem-solving processes and tools.
• Able to achieve goals, self-motivate, take initiative
• NAFTA knowledge
• Advanced analytical skills, extensive experience in excel pivots and lookups, with ability to manage multiple data sets/sources

About the Company:

Navico Group is the global leader in technology, systems and solutions for a variety of industries, from Marine & RV to Specialty Vehicles and beyond. Our broad portfolio consists of the industry's leading brands in Power Systems, Digital Systems, Fishing Systems, and Performance Components including Ancor, Attwood, B&G, BEP, Blue Sea Systems, C-MAP, CZone, Garelick, Lenco, Lowrance, Marinco, MotorGuide, Mastervolt, ProMariner, RELiON, Simrad and Whale.

Our team is committed and driven, every day, to be the most trusted supply partner to the marine and mobile industries...and beyond.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and inspiration. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process.

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