[Hiring] Senior Global Commodity Manager – Key Technologies @Danaher Corporation

Role Description

The Senior Global Commodity Manager – Key Technologies is responsible for managing, developing, and executing the global sourcing and category strategies for the Key Technologies commodity across Beckman Coulter Diagnostics. Spend responsibility for this role is approximately $170m per year. This role drives cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability, risk management, and supply chain continuity outcomes by partnering cross-functionally with Operations, Quality, R&D, Planning, and Supplier Quality to optimize the end-to-end Key Technologies supplier base in support of business growth and operational excellence.

This position is part of the Global Strategic Procurement team. You will be working fully remotely to ensure a resilient, competitive, and compliant global Key Technologies supply base that supports product availability worldwide.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Strategic Category Leadership: Develop, define, and execute global category strategies for Key Technologies to maximize savings, on-time delivery, quality, and risk management.
• Supplier Management & Negotiation Excellence: Evaluate suppliers, lead competitive events (RFIs/RFPs/auctions), negotiate agreements, drive preferred-supplier adoption, and manage supplier performance to meet Beckman Coulter's needs.
• Advanced Analytical & Business Skills: Develop spend analysis, market intelligence, project repository maintenance, financial analysis, budget/price guidance, track/report savings against annual objectives.
• Cross-Functional Leadership & Influence: Lead without direct authority—guiding other functions and collaborating strongly with our R&D / NPI / VAVE teams to provide strategic direction on supplier selection.
• Continuous Improvement & DBS (Lean) Mindset: Adopt and use structured continuous-improvement tools (e.g., Lean, Kaizen, DBS) to improve cost, quality, delivery, inventory, cash across Beckman Coulter.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA or master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Materials Science, Industrial Distribution Degree, Supply Chain Management degree (with a technical focus or specialization) or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of technical procurement/sourcing experience in Key Technologies, and Key Technology Category sub-tier category management such as Pumps, Valves, Motors, Optical Displays, PC and Memory Storage devices, digital machine interfaces and displays.
• Deep understanding of current and emerging technologies relevant to AI/ML, advanced analytics, robotics, automation, biotechnology, data science.
• Demonstrated expertise in negotiations, contract management, and sourcing events such as RFI/RFP, spend benchmarking, E Tools such as E Auction with ability to evaluate suppliers on technical capability, quality, and total cost using TCO modelling.
• Highly collaborative with functions such as New Product Introduction, R&D, Supplier Development, and Quality to build roadmaps and Sourcing Strategies for the key technology Category and Subcategories.

Requirements

• Ability to travel up to 20%, including domestic and international trips as business needs require.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefit programs including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• Remote work arrangement eligibility.
• Annual salary range for this role is $165K – 180K, with eligibility for bonus/incentive pay.