.Req ID: 123494Remote Position: HybridRegion: AmericasCountry: MexicoState/Province: Nuevo LeonCity: Monterrey**General Overview**:**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**: Indirect**Summary**:**Detailed Description**:Performs 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.**Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**:- 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.- 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