Global Director, Commodity Strategy & Supply Resilience

seagate singapore international headquarters pte. ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 280,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte. Ltd. seeks a transformational leader to build and lead the next generation of Commodity Management.

The role spans sourcing, supplier management, and negotiations, translating intelligence into strategies that influence product, manufacturing, investment, and business decisions while integrating supplier capability and risk management. The Senior Director will head a global organization responsible for strategic direct-material commodities,

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience across Commodity Management, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Engineering, Manufacturing Operations, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience leading global teams and delivering results through managers and cross-functional leaders.
• Proven success navigating difficult market cycles, supply constraints, and supplier disruptions.
• Demonstrated ability to create and execute differentiated, long-term commodity strategies with measurable business impact.
• Track record of leading organizational transformation, operating-model change, and capability building.
• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and leading complex supplier relationships at senior levels.

Responsibilities

• Develop multi-year commodity strategies aligned to company growth, technology, product, manufacturing, and financial roadmaps.
• Anticipate market shifts, supply-demand imbalances, technology transitions, capacity concentration and supplier investment cycles.
• Translate external market and ecosystem intelligence into differentiated sourcing and business strategies that deliver sustainable competitive advantage.
• Build executive-level supplier relationships and influence technology, capacity, capital-allocation and expansion roadmaps.
• Lead strategic sourcing and investment recommendations that balance cost, continuity, technology access, capability, capacity and business risk.
• Establish proactive, portfolio-based approach to multi-tier supply resilience and supplier risk management.
• Develop visibility into critical sub-tier dependencies, capacity constraints, geopolitical exposure, and qualified alternative-source readiness.
• Lead responses to market disruptions, capacity constraints, geopolitical events, technology migrations and supplier performance challenges.
• Build predictive signals and demand scenarios that quantify risk and enable action before business impact.
• Drive multi-tier continuity, capacity-assurance, and resilience plans with clear ownership and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Operations and product teams to align supplier capabilities and innovation roadmaps with long-term business needs.
• Integrate technical, manufacturing, quality, commercial, and ecosystem perspectives into sourcing and supplier decisions.
• Accelerate supplier adoption of new technologies, materials, manufacturing capabilities, and scalable capacity.
• Establish mechanism linking supplier innovation, process capability and execution to product, speed-to-market, and business outcomes.
• Build strategic partnerships across suppliers, manufacturing and technology partners, consortiums, and emerging entrants to create differentiated value.
• Lead complex commercial negotiations, long-term agreements, and executive supplier business reviews.
• Develop fact-based negotiation strategies using market intelligence, supplier economics, cost models, and should-cost frameworks.
• Deliver measurable productivity, cost optimization, cost avoidance, and margin-improvement outcomes.
• Balance immediate financial objective with technology access, supply resilience, quality and total business value.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Executive communication

Supplier relationship mgmt

Global team leadership

Analytics & insights

Education

Advanced degree in Engineering, Supply Chain or Business

Job description

Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte. Ltd. seeks a transformational leader to build and lead the next generation of Commodity Management.

The role spans sourcing, supplier management, and negotiations, translating intelligence into strategies that influence product, manufacturing, investment, and business decisions while integrating supplier capability and risk management. The Senior Director will head a global organization responsible for strategic direct-material commodities,