.08 - Commodity Management SpecialistDate: Oct 28, 2024Location: Monterrey, NLE, MX Functional Area: SCM - Supply Chain Management Career Stream: CMT - Commodity Management Role: Specialist Job Title: Commodity Management Specialist Job Code: SPE-SCM-COMM Band: Level 08 Direct/Indirect Indicator: IndirectSummaryDetailed DescriptionPerforms tasks such as, but not limited to, the following:Maintains global and/or regional responsibility for a complex commodity or group of commodities for price/value determination, product and/or service negotiations, terms and conditions, supplier relationship development and performance.Develops and executes a procurement strategy for commodity or services including competitive benchmarking, technology direction, supplier analysis, development, selection and pricing strategy.Responsible for all product or service sourcing.Participates in the Commodity Council Corporate negotiation teams or individually.Participates in the Customer Materials Commitment process through collection of materials pricing and Customer BOM analysis.Acts as primary contact for site or customer support.Quotes and negotiates quarterly all products or major services either regionally or globally.Conducts customer bids within the response time objectives.Responsible for supplier performance reviews including performance reviews, business development and supplier awards programs.Has frequent interaction and negotiation with senior executives of industry leading multi-national companies.Provides support to their internal customers to resolve quality, serviceability and performance related issues.Identifies the supply vs. demand for all allocated products and communicate the proportioning of these items by geography and customer.Consolidates and escalates all critical shortages and resolves issues.Provides product cost support for products in assigned geographies.Prepares bids including generation of BOM, cost analysis, negotiate with suppliers, and present bids to management.Updates material prices database, analyze bill of materials for competitiveness and customer compliance, review with management.Provides guidance to less experienced Commodity Management staff.Provides guidance to counterparts at the sites to ensure process compliance.Broad knowledge of the marketplace conditions for the area of specialization including industry pricing, technology and supply/demand trends.Working knowledge of Celestica's global supply chain including strategic policies and objectives.Strong knowledge of basic computer applications and the ability to learn and use multiple applications specific to this department including ERP and office systems.Knowledge of purchasing principles and procedures.Basic understanding of specific customer needs.Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills.Ability to consolidate, manipulate and analyze large quantities of data