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The ICT (Industrial & Commercial Transportation) Strategic Sourcing team is seeking a Strategic Commodity Leader for Metallics in North America for several high profile and critical Categories (stamping, metals, machining, plating, others). The candidate will also engage with internal TE manufacturing locations for the assigned commodities. The candidate will develop and implement multi-year strategies for assigned commodities, suppliers and parts/services to achieve established goals in supplier quality, delivery, price and service. The strategy and execution must be aligned with cross-functional partners such as engineering, manufacturing, product management and functional owners. Critical to the role are needs for strong knowledge of competitive bidding, negotiations, contracting processes including VMI/Consignment agreements and technical continuous improvement for assigned commodities. This role will need to collaborate across Business Units and cross-regions for optimal TE leverage. Along with commodity management, the selected candidate will have a team of Category Buyers as direct reports that are in multiple locations within ICT.
Key Responsibilities:
- In this strategic role, you will be responsible for regional procurement management of the metallics commodity and suppliers to include supplier market analysis; raw material market tracking; understanding of part cost breakdown, negotiations, price tracking and changes, key contact for supplier escalations, assurance of material supply with the supply base, analytics and analysis of data, and supporting commodity managers as assigned.
- Responsible to Achieve KPI's including material productivity, delivery, quality metrics, and supplier risk assessments; Ensure positive savings impact for assigned category with weekly management of trends and pricing issues.
- Perform and analyze market analysis to maintain a good knowledge of potential trends evolutions within the assigned portfolio (new players, new technologies, etc.).
- Supplier relationship management, including Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR's) for strategic suppliers as well as monitoring supplier cost quality, delivery, management/finances, and conformance to requirements.
- Responsible for contract management and Supply Agreements for assigned categories.
- Develop and execute a 3-5 year regional commodity plan for assigned categories - strategy, in accordance with the Global, Regional and Local needs and in alignment with the corporate commodity strategy.
- Engage with NPI & Advanced Procurement teams for new project awareness and proactively work to close technology gaps into strategy.
- Support the TEOA-P initiatives and Star Level attainment for the region and business unit.
- Assure results are delivered compliant with TE policies and procedures.
- Provide timely and complete responses to various corporate, segment, business unit and functional support requirements
- Foster an environment of open collaboration with all functions of ICT as may be required to advance operational and integrated supply chain performance improvements. Actively and openly provide feedback (including constructive push-back) on Operations functional direction and action plans.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of Bachelor's degree in Business, Procurement, Engineering or Supply Chain. Masters is preferred.
- At least 5 years of relevant sourcing/procurement experience
- Prior experience that demonstrates ability to achieve desired results and KPIs successfully
- Strong people & organizational leadership skills: Person of true convictions; willing to stand up for those convictions; Able to communicate, reinforce and coach/counsel others on those convictions; unafraid of change / improvement
- Business acumen, strong communication and negotiation skills, Leadership, creative, presentation skills, patient, influencing skills, Results driven, action oriented, comfortable with ambiguity,
- Procurement analytical skills in: LPP analysis, Currency and Material analysis, Market analysis, Part Cost Breakdown analysis, RFQ analysis, etc.
- Experience in metals market a plus
- Experience in contract negotiation, contract review, and contract management.
- Self-starter with Project Management experience and ability to drive action items and results
- Very Strong analytical and computer-skills; Experience in Excel, PowerPoint, SAP procurement applications and Microsoft Office/Teams
- Strong communication and presentation skills at all levels
- Strong decision-making skills and critical thinking
- Travel up to 10-25% of time.
- Fluent in English, Spanish a plus.
- SAP experience a plus.
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COMPENSATION
Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $140,000 - 205,000 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
Total Compensation = Base Salary + Incentive(s) + Benefits
BENEFITS
A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
EOE, Including Disability/Vets
