Global Sourcing Manager for Chemicals - Fortune 100 Global Leader

Company: Fortune 100 Global Leader

Location: Eastern United States

Position Reports to: Director - Procurement

Opportunity Highlights

Our global client is continually known worldwide as the leader in their focus. A highly stable and profitable company, they serve a variety of industries, including construction, aerospace, packaging, engineering, materials science, automotive and transportation. Profits last year were well over 30 billion, putting them in the exclusive Fortune 100 group of companies. As a global leader, they employ well over 80,000 people in over 30 countries. Their success extends beyond the financial. They also were recently recognized by Dow Jones via placement on their list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies.

In line with their global focus, the Global Sourcing Manager for Chemicals will lead the effort in developing the global commodity strategy and implementation plan, and to leverage opportunities across sub-categories. The incumbent will develop a network of global and regional commodity managers with intimate knowledge of the commodities and the business within the portfolio to deliver effective strategies. This is a leadership role with responsibility over commodity management, strategic sourcing, portfolio management, value chain analysis and supplier relationship management. The scope will be across business units and sites globally.

Company Information

Our global client is continually known worldwide as the leader in their focus. A highly stable and profitable company, they serve a variety of industries, including construction, aerospace, packaging, engineering, materials science, automotive and transportation. Profits last year were well over 30 billion, putting them in the exclusive Fortune 100 group of companies. As a global leader, they employ well over 80,000 people in over 30 countries. Their success extends beyond the financial. They also were recently recognized by Dow Jones via placement on their list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies.

Responsibilities

Understands the strategies, demands, and requirements of both the business units and the enterprise and works to develop global commodity strategies that are consistent with short and long term strategic plans.

Identifies appropriate Commodity Team Sponsorship and Membership from the business to help develop and execute value added sourcing strategies for the company.

Develops a network of global and regional commodity managers with intimate knowledge of the commodities and the business within the portfolio to deliver effective strategies.

Identifies the key stakeholders across the enterprise to gain a clear understanding of the business needs to enable the creation of the commodity vision and objectives.

Analyzes the supply market to gain an understanding of the market dynamics, to define supplier segmentation, to define supply side power, to identify benchmarks to help identify supply side opportunities.

Analyzes the demand side for a commodity by completing spend histories and demand forecast, by identifying current suppliers, determining procurement involvement, historical contract compliance, and demand segmentation to enable the identification of demand side opportunities.

Analyzes the supply demand interfaces by analyzing TCO and cost drivers, procurement value levers, product/portfolio segmentation and channels, along with risks to define innovative approaches and strategies to drive optimum value to Client.

Develops the major strategic options and builds the business case to define the global commodity strategy that maximizes value to Client.

Works with the Director- Commodity Council and Commodity Sponsor to ensure the global commodity strategy is aligned to Procurement and the Corporate and Business Units strategies.

First point of contact for the Global and Business Unit management; communicate objectives, results and special projects of the Global Commodity Team

Works collaboratively with the Global Council Director and peers to prioritize opportunities and allocate resources for the Council.

Identified near and long term opportunities within the commodity spend portfolio through market and business intelligence and interaction with Business Units that will add value

Utilizes a systematic approach for identifying, evaluating and prioritizing sourcing project opportunities.

Builds clear business cases/value propositions with supporting details to define the identified opportunities.

Develops and utilizes criteria in conjunction with the commodity council to determine when to add or remove a project or program for the commodity portfolio.

Reviews the portfolio to determine the project mix needed to improve the overall value contribution and to meet goals of the business.

Balancing the portfolio, to ensure a mix that balances, Short versus long term and Risk versus Reward.

Monitors the planning and execution of the chosen projects.

Evaluating new opportunities against the current portfolio and comparatively to each other taking into account the organization’s execution capacity

In conjunction with Commodity Team members develops, applies and monitors overall commodity strategy performance results and governance criteria for the constituent teams.
Manages and updates commodity strategy to ensure alignment with changes in the business and market.

Develops corresponding overall business case for change, with support from commodity team Members, and presents opportunities to the Council and into Global Procurement for prioritization.

Provides guidance and leadership to Global Team Members to ensure commodity strategies are aligned with the overall council strategies and objectives of the Commodity Council.

Develops cascading implementation/transition plans to execute global commodity sourcing strategies.

Secures resources, funding and establishes initiative tracking and reporting.

Utilizes Project Management Tools to guide the execution of the transition plan.

Leads and facilitates the execution activities with the regions to drive the transition.

Assures global commodity strategies are applied consistently throughout the commodity

Responsible for supplier relationship management with major global commodity suppliers to: (a) assure maximum value to Client; (b) Supply Flow Assurance; and (c) market intelligence.

Reviews and assists sub-commodity teams in achievement of target opportunities through: (1) Allocation of resources, (2) Prioritization of funds (e.g., Market Intelligence)

Qualifications/Requirements

• Strong indirect leadership and influencing skills
• Savvy commercial skills
• Proven experience in project leadership, requiring demonstrated strength in communication,
all aspects of project management, and organizational influencing.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience
• Ability to execute
• Can develop strategy and connect with stakeholders
• Ability to make things happen
• Individual looking for career growth
• Raw material experience or commercial experience
• Proven ability to execute
• Sourcing of chemicals is a plus but could come from a background in other commodities –
metals, inorganic, raw materials, commercial

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