Global Commodity Sourcing Leader

Bruker (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd; Penang; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bruker (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd is seeking a seasoned Commodity Manager to lead global sourcing for materials, services and freight, aligning strategy with quality, cost and delivery goals. You will supervise a buyers team and collaborate with product management and production planning.

Responsibilities include supplier development and qualification, negotiating global supply agreements, on-site supplier visits, and driving continuous improvement using SAP, Excel and PowerBI to reduce total cost.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 12 years’ experience in manufacturing, including 10 years in purchasing or supply chain.
• APICS or CPM Certification strongly preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP) and analytics software (PowerBI, Tableau, SAP Analytics Cloud, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Create and execute commodity strategies that best leverage supplier capabilities and the company’s procurement spend to meet corporate objectives (support our near term and long term) of quality, cost, delivery and customer service
• Lead a commodity team to optimize and rationalize our supply chain, including the identification, qualification and management of new suppliers and related sourcing (re-sourcing, outsourcing) activities and negotiations activities to achieve business targets for quality, delivery and cost
• Lead the global procurement of materials, services, and freight to support the development, NPI and mass production requirements
• Develop strong relationships with suppliers that facilitate a deep understanding of their organizations and capabilities to support short term and long term business needs
• Liaise with product management and production planning to drive activities related to the timely and cost effective procurement of materials and services while meeting delivery and inventory targets
• Develop and implement policies, procedures, and systems to support procurement activities
• Coordinate and support on-site supplier visits, assessments, audits, and continuous improvement opportunities to optimize total cost and address issues with supplier performance
• Assess gaps in supplier performance and implement appropriate continuous improvement activities
• Collaborate with Manufacturing and Design Engineering to source, select, and establish new suppliers, source new technologies, as well as resolve technical related issues and tasks
• Negotiate and create global supply agreements with key partners to meet corporate objectives
• Manage and develop the commodity team to ensure objectives are met and team members are engaged and high performing
• Ensure KPIs and metrics are tracked and reported for the team’s primary goals and objectives Generate various analyses and reports using ERP (SAP) and Excel (other software such as PowerBI)
• Manage and support SAP modules that are related to Procurement
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve other relevant business objectives such as meeting annual inventory target

Skills

Supply management

Data analytics

Negotiation

Cross-functional leadership

Excel

PowerBI

SAP

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain

Tools

SAP

PowerBI

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Bruker (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd is seeking a seasoned Commodity Manager to lead global sourcing for materials, services and freight, aligning strategy with quality, cost and delivery goals. You will supervise a buyers team and collaborate with product management and production planning.

Responsibilities include supplier development and qualification, negotiating global supply agreements, on-site supplier visits, and driving continuous improvement using SAP, Excel and PowerBI to reduce total cost.