Senior Strategic Commodity Manager (6733)

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world?

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview

The Senior Commodity Manager is a new SubCom position that will work across the end-to-end supply and value chain to deliver precision, velocity, and quality results. From the import of foreign sourced raw materials and components, through our new Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ), to ship loading and installation around the world, the Senior Commodity Manager will have the opportunity to create business value through knowing industry and market dynamics, key players per industry segment and their customer and supply base, forming value-added partnerships internally and externally, mitigating risk, in the pursuit of continuous improvement and flawless execution. The Senior Commodity Manager will use their strategic supply chain and procurement experience and expertise to create business value through optimizing Price Per Unit (PPU), Purchase Price Variance (PPV), and other supply chain value drivers to create lasting competitive advantage for SubCom. This is a new role reporting to the Global Supply Chain Operations Leader.

Responsibilities

Research and Intelligence Gathering: The Senior Commodity Manager engages in research and intelligence gathering at the industry, market, and company level and at the commodity level. Must understand ecosystems and networks of extraction, refining, production, and distribution of goods. Must understand markets and indexes and what moves them.
Strategic Sourcing: Developing global strategies for assigned commodities to ensure continuity and reduce costs.
Supplier Management: Evaluating, selecting, and maintaining relationships with domestic and international suppliers.
Negotiation & Contracting: Leading contract negotiations regarding pricing, quality, and delivery terms.
Risk Mitigation: Identifying potential supply chain disruptions and implementing contingency plans.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnering with engineering, operations, and finance teams for new product development and cost savings.
Team Leadership: Provide leadership, training and development to direct reports and other personnel in the Supply Chain organization.