[Hiring] Commodity Manager @Nesco Resource

Role Description

The Commodity Manager serves as a sourcing expert in a particular class of goods or service. This position creates/maintains supplier relationships, negotiates all pricing structures and contracts, and ensures pricing and delivery meets contract guidelines.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Drives vendor selection strategy, contracts management, and continues monitoring to optimize collaboration and mitigate risks.
• Writes, launches, manages, and successfully closes RFPs for all new suppliers or services.
• Reviews and consolidates existing suppliers in an assigned commodity, ensuring unused suppliers are deactivated, redundancies are removed, and looks for opportunities to consolidate suppliers providing the same goods or services.
• Ensures all supplier contracts are uploaded to the database with key terms captured for reporting.
• Leads, negotiates, and contracts all new and renewal supplier agreements.
• Tracks all contract negotiations and saves generated contracts in assigned database.
• Serves as an internal and external escalation point for all supplier questions and issues.
• Measures supplier and vendor performance against agreed on cost savings and cost avoidance targets.
• Monitors, tracks, and reacts to critical market forecasts and condition changes.
• Conducts category spend analyses and reporting, supplier stratification, supply market and category industry research.
• Builds and manages relationships with priority business executives, serves as a key member to support implementation of business strategies through advanced procurement initiatives and team alignment.
• Facilitates the entire sourcing process and closely collaborates with clients to select and award business to suppliers.
• Stays abreast of industry news, market trends, and regulatory changes that could affect commodity prices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, or Finance from an accredited college or university preferred.
• Related certifications such as IIBA, and/or CPM, CIPS or CPSM preferred.
• Five (5) years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• Experience with P2P platforms and Power BI preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to present complex topics in a concise manner with audiences at various levels.
• PC literate, including Microsoft Office products, with a strong basis in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical, interpretive and storytelling skills with data.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent negotiating skills.
• Ability to create and complete comprehensive, accurate and constructive written reports.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to meet or exceed Performance Competencies.
• Self-confident with an ability to accept and respond to challenges in a positive manner.

Requirements

• 100% REMOTE, 8a-5p EST.

Work Environment

• Mental: Clear and conceptual thinking ability; excellent judgment, troubleshooting, problem solving, analysis, and discretion; ability to handle work-related stress; ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously; and ability to meet deadlines.
• Physical: Computer keyboarding, travel as required.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including a MEC (Minimum Essential Coverage) plan that encompasses Medical, Vision, Dental, 401K, and EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services.