Job DescriptionEssential Functions:- Develop, implement, and manage commodity strategies; evaluate and select suppliers, including global opportunities, negotiation of supply agreements, and rationalization of the supply base.- Drive continuous improvement in the supply base in support of business goals.- Participate in continuous learning and professional development activities, while developing and implementing actions to achieve commodity goals delivery performance, lead time reduction, productivity, and quality.- Actively develop Global Standard Work with purchasing team.- Provide continual support to Sourcing & Commodity Teams, Customer Service Delivery Team, plants & repair facilities, Suppliers, and Customers.- Prepare/handle RFQs for commodities and customer projects.Principal Duties:- Evaluate and manage existing and potential suppliers based on the principles of Total Cost of Ownership and ensure timely acquisitions of product or service requirements from known sources of supply.- Ethically represent Rockwell Automation when interfacing with other companies. This representation includes conducting meetings/presentations with supplier and Rockwell Automation personnel, selecting appropriate sources, communicating material specifications, negotiating pricing, establishing delivery commitments, resolving quality problems, communicating industry trends/technological innovations and resolving disputed legal and financial issues.- Develop specific objectives in support of Purchasing's departmental objectives. Establish personal growth objectives to support you and Rockwell Automation. Report periodic progress toward those objectives to the purchasing supervisor.- Edit and process purchase requisitions working with appropriate departments to clarify specifications and requirements. Uses SAP and other enterprise systems and programs to issue purchase orders, collect and analyze data.- Coordinate activities with other functional areas (including Engineering, IT, Marketing, Regional Service Delivery, Customer Care, and Finance/Accounting) to achieve maximum customer service levels.- Participate in and support the coordinated purchase agreement programs with the Rockwell Strategic Sourcing organization.- Aid in the development of new or enhanced computer systems/capabilities in support of overall productivity improvement efforts and management reporting.- Ensure thorough familiarity with policies and procedures relating to the purchasing department and standards of business conduct.- Conducts tasks in accordance with applicable health, safety, quality and environmental regulations (state/federal laws, ISO 9001, ISO 14000, etc.) as well as Rockwell/Rockwell Automation policies and procedures.