[Hiring] Senior Global Commodity Manager @Reworld Waste

Role Description

The Senior Global Commodity Manager – Chemicals Reagents will lead enterprise-wide commodity strategy, sourcing, supplier partnership management, and cost optimization for chemicals and reagents used across waste-to-energy plants, waste-processing facilities, and other industrial operations.

The role will manage a significant portfolio that includes:

• Lime
• Ammonia
• Urea
• Water and wastewater-treatment chemicals
• Carbon products
• Industrial gases
• Solidification materials
• Lubricants
• Other chemicals and reagents required by the business

A key focus of this position is building strong partnerships with strategic suppliers to improve:

• Total cost
• Product quality
• Technical support
• Service
• Innovation
• Supply reliability

This is a senior individual-contributor position that leads cross-functional teams and may provide category-management guidance or mentorship to other procurement professionals.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute enterprise-wide commodity strategies for chemicals and reagents.
• Lead the complete sourcing process, including market analysis, RFI/RFP/RFQ development, supplier evaluation, negotiation strategy, contracting, implementation, and benefit tracking.
• Build and manage strategic relationships with key chemical and reagent suppliers.
• Lead supplier business reviews, performance scorecards, escalations, and joint improvement plans.
• Hold suppliers accountable for cost, safety, quality, service, delivery, technical support, innovation, and supply continuity.
• Partner with suppliers, Operations, and Logistics to optimize freight, delivery methods, inventory levels, tank utilization, and supply reliability.
• Identify opportunities for supplier consolidation, product standardization, demand management, alternative products, and total-cost improvement.
• Balance enterprise commodity strategies with site-specific technical and operational requirements.
• Partner with facility leadership, regional procurement, Operations, Engineering, Environmental, Safety, Finance, Legal, and Logistics.
• Support supplier and chemical-product qualification, including specification reviews, technical evaluations, plant trials, risk assessments, and stakeholder approvals.
• Monitor chemical markets, feedstock costs, freight, production capacity, and supply-chain risks.
• Develop backup suppliers, alternative products, and business-continuity plans for critical chemicals.
• Analyze spend, pricing, consumption, supplier performance, and market data and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Deliver measurable savings, cost avoidance, risk reduction, working-capital improvement, and service improvement.
• Support other procurement priorities based on business needs.
• Up to 30% travel time, could be international travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience in strategic sourcing, commodity management, procurement, supply chain, or commercial management.
• Procurement or commodity-management experience within the chemical industry; or a chemistry, chemical-engineering, or related technical background combined with significant procurement or strategic-sourcing experience.
• Experience developing and executing category or commodity strategies.
• Demonstrated success managing strategic suppliers and improving supplier performance.
• Experience leading competitive sourcing events and negotiating complex supply agreements.
• Ability to understand chemical applications, specifications, cost drivers, logistics, storage, handling requirements, and supply risks.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to independently resolve supply, supplier-performance, and commercial issues in an industrial operating environment.
• Ability to work across multiple facilities, regions, and functions in a matrix organization.
• Ability to travel to operating facilities and supplier locations as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct procurement or commodity-management experience for industrial chemicals and reagents.
• Experience sourcing water-treatment chemicals, industrial gases, carbon products, solidification materials, lubricants, fuels, or related industrial products.
• Experience qualifying chemical suppliers and products through specification reviews, technical evaluations, plant trials, and stakeholder approval.
• Experience in waste-to-energy, power generation, utilities, waste management, environmental services, chemical manufacturing, chemical distribution, or another heavy industrial sector.
• Knowledge of emissions control, water and wastewater treatment, ash treatment, combustion, or other industrial chemical applications.
• Experience managing national, regional, or global chemical supply agreements.
• Experience conducting supplier business reviews and managing supplier-performance programs.
• Professional certification such as CPSM or CSCP is preferred.

Measures of Success

• Sustainable savings and total-cost improvement.
• Strong strategic supplier partnerships.
• Improved supplier quality, service, delivery, technical support, and supply reliability.
• Increased spend under contract.
• Successful supplier and product qualification.
• Improved freight and supply-chain performance.
• Reduced supply risk and price volatility.
• Effective adoption of commodity strategies across operating facilities.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription drug, vision, and dental plans.
• 401(k) plan.
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid time off.
• Paid holidays.