Global Commodity Manager - Celestica : Job Details

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Location: Remote Employee US, NH, US

Celestica is excited to welcome a Global Commodity Manager to our dynamic team! This pivotal role entails guiding team leaders and talented professionals across various functions, driving our mission forward with enthusiasm and innovation. You will play a crucial part in shaping our future by developing impactful three to five-year plans and crafting departmental policies that ensure accountability and excellence. Bring your strategic mindset to the table as you establish goals in alignment with our objectives and recommend thoughtful policy enhancements. Your expertise will be vital in budgeting processes, as smart financial decisions help us minimize costs and avoid delays. Supervising a dedicated team while coordinating departmental activities will be integral to your success. You'll have the opportunity to make key hiring and firing decisions, provide constructive performance reviews, and foster professional growth through coaching. Your ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and negotiate effectively will empower you to collaborate with peers, subordinates, and senior managers regularly. Cultivating positive relationships with our valued customers and suppliers is essential for sustaining our organization's success, and we can't wait to see the incredible impact you'll make!

• Maintains global and /or regional responsibility for strategic high dollar semiconductorcommodity or equivalentfor price/value determination, product and/or service negotiations, terms, and conditions.
• Develops and implements a procurement strategy for the commodities manage including technology direction, supplier analysis, development and selection and pricing strategy.
• Acts as primary interface with Celestica's suppliers for all relationship management, contract negotiation, establishing thebusiness framework for transactions, performance reviews, business development and supplier awards programs.
• Sources all products and services, maintaining a continuity of supply, while delivering the lowest cost component or service solution.
• Provides global sites directionand performance reporting for cost analysis to senior management.
• Leads negotiations for commodities managed, providing guidance on negotiations strategy and negotiations planning, developing a commodity strategy, and presentations / communication of consistent message to suppliers.
• Has frequent interaction and negotiation with senior executives of industry leading multi-national companies.
• Manages the Global Commodity Negotiation process ensuring accurate forecasting and pricing accuracy.
• Manages data flow for pricing fluctuations in market and analytical tools including development and maintenance of Commodity Management systems applications
• Conducts strategicanalysis on pricing, the market, suppliers, customers, competitors, contracts and long-term agreements.
• May act as site liaison to manage critical shortage, develop strategies on constrained commodities and represent site to manage related systems changes that have broad effect on execution of purchasing responsibilities.
• Drives process improvement, leads development of IT tools for group, defines business processes and implements new tools/ processes.
• Performs bid activity for sensitive/highly visible complex bids.

• Bachelor's degree in business or engineering, or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 7years in Commodity Management. Experience in managing high dollar semiconductor commodityor equivalent electronics components highly advantageous.
• Good knowledge of the marketplace conditions onhigh dollar semiconductor commodityor equivalent electronics.
• Good understanding of global business environment and high dollar semiconductor suppliers'business, organization, products and processes.
• Strong knowledge of office systems and analytical tools.
• Ability to lead complex negotiations effectively.
• Strong ability to work effectively across internal functions to achieve Celestica's goals.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Duties of this position are performed in a typical office environment.

Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or numbers and other detailed data.

Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

Occasional overnight travel may be required.

Seven to ten years relevant experience

• Bachelor's degree in related field (Commerce or Engineering), or consideration of an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

The salary range is between $116,000 and $160,000 USD

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Celestica's policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Location: This is a remote position, with travel as necessary. We are open to considering candidates close to any of our US locations in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Texas, Arizona, Oregon or California as well as locations near major airports such as the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.