Enterprise Commodity Manager

At Roush, we fuse technology and engineering to provide product development solutions to customers in a diverse range of industries. Widely recognized for providing engineering, testing, prototype, and manufacturing services to the transportation industry, Roush also provides significant support to the aerospace, defense and theme park industries. With over 2,400 employees in facilities throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America, our unique combination of creativity and tenacity activates big ideas on a global stage. We want motivated, ambitious people who put the needs of our customers first, bring creativity to their work and will do whatever it takes to achieve success. If you share our passion for providing innovative solutions to complex challenges, we want you on our team.

At Roush, we work alongside the best and brightest to do incredibly cool things you wouldn’t believe. At Roush, you are part of building the future.

Roush is searching for an Enterprise Commodity Manager to join our Supply Chain team! This person will serve as the resource and commodity expert; establishing a team to lead cost reduction and sourcing efforts globally as well as manage overall relationships with suppliers. This position is located in Livonia, MI.

As an Enterprise Commodity Manager, you will:

• Manage a variety of up to 30 or more commodity codes across multiple industries and utilizing different procurement strategies to meet unique requirements. (Standard of Tier 1 commodity codes management is approximately 15 per ECM).
• Facilitate the resolution of RFWs on incoming material between the supply base and internal Supplier Quality team, ensuring compliance with quality standards.
• Manage and resolve Quality Defect Notices (QDNs) and any subsequent commercial remedies as applicable, ensuring quality standards are met and maintained.
• Manage large volume of part numbers (PNs) for procurement; estimated approximately 15,000PNs per year.
• Plan Commodity Manager (CM) workload to ensure they are executing key monthly deliverables like cost, quality, delivery and launch metrics including sourcing on time, resolving match exceptions, resolving material shortages, etc.
• Lead the CM team to develop and execute sourcing strategies that meet program objectives.
• Lead the CM’s in the development of negotiation strategies and review/approve all supply agreements. Assist in managing the overall relationship for strategic suppliers.
• Work collaboratively with all stakeholders to build strong relationships by seeking input, finding common ground, and building trust to ensure early involvement of the purchasing function to optimize overall impact, and provide services such as multiple quotation iterations to best serve customers.
• Lead CM’s in establishing a cross-business commodity strategy/Approved Supplier List.
• Develop CM’s to Roush standards and expectations (reference processes/ procedures/ culture etc.) and managing their performance to department objectives.
• Ensure CM’s are conducting supplier performance review meetings to monitor effectiveness of the strategy and make changes where appropriate.
• Benchmark procurement processes and develop & implement best practices/continuous improvement initiatives.
• Exercise GD&T fundamentals for prints and provide recommendations.

• Bachelor’s degree in business-related or technical area.
• Must have minimum of 10 years’ experience in purchasing.
• Professional verbal and written communication skills required.
• Demonstrated competence in negotiating skills and assessing suppliers.
• Demonstrated competence in developing & implementing commodity strategies.
• Coordination, facilitation, consultation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Possesses an understanding of industry quality standards.

• Master's degree in business-related or technical area
• Experience managing people.
• Experience in the automotive industry.
• High technical aptitude.
• Ability to read blueprints/drawings.
• Experience with cost modeling/cost drivers/cost structures.
• Experience in the automotive industry.

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Our full-time benefits include: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, earned sick time, STD, LTD, 401K, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation, and paid holidays.

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