Commodity Manager

Spectrum Control, Inc.; Town of Marlborough (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3-day weekend option

PTO from day 1

Job summary

Spectrum Control, Inc. is seeking a Commodity Manager to lead a three-person team and drive commodity strategies across multiple manufacturing locations.

You will engage in major supplier negotiations, contracting, cost reduction, and risk mitigation to support aerospace, defense, and high-reliability markets. This hands-on management role requires strong commercial judgment, technical sourcing experience, and the ability to balance strategic initiatives with urgent production needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Operations, or related field.
• 7+ years of strategic sourcing or supply-chain experience, including 2+ years in people management.
• Experience sourcing technical components in aerospace, defense, electronics, or highly regulated manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop commodity strategies aligned with business objectives and manage supplier performance.
• Lead and coach a team of commodity professionals with clear priorities and KPIs.
• Negotiate supplier contracts, conduct cost analyses, and manage supplier risk and escalation.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Program Management on supplier transitions and make-versus-buy decisions.
• Standardize practices across Spectrum locations and drive cost reductions and process improvements.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

People management

Negotiations

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain/Business/Engineering

Advanced degree or professional certification preferred

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

Microsoft Office

Data analytics tools

Job description

At Spectrum Control, most departments operate on a 4-day, 10-hour work schedule in exchange for a 3-day weekend. We offer competitive wages and PTO, plus our benefits begin on day 1 of employment. Come join a workforce where we put you first!

JOB SUMMARY

The Commodity Manager is responsible for developing and executing commodity strategies that support Spectrum Control's operational, financial, and customer objectives across multiple manufacturing locations. This hands-on, people manager will lead and develop a team of three commodity professionals while remaining actively involved in major supplier negotiations, contracting, cost reduction, risk mitigation, and supplier performance management. Working closely with Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Program Management, the Commodity Manager will build a reliable and competitive supply base for highly engineered products serving the aerospace, defense, and other high-reliability markets. The role requires strong commercial judgment, technical sourcing experience, and the ability to balance strategic initiatives with immediate business and production needs.

COMPENSATION RANGE

The expected compensation range for this position is $130,000 - 160,000.00 annually.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Commodity Strategy: Spend Analytics Develop commodity strategy framework, supplier strategies. Implement major commodity strategies aligned with business objectives, customer requirements, and manufacturing needs. Manage supplier relationships and performance, improve lead time, mitigate supplier/supply risk. Identify and execute cost-reduction, productivity, value-engineering, and working-capital improvement opportunities. Identify opportunities for supplier base optimization.
• People Management and Development: Lead, coach, and develop a team of commodity professionals, establishing clear priorities, performance expectations, and development plans. Establish and monitor key performance indicators for cost savings, lead time reduction, risk mitigation. Jointed ownership with Material Management team for purchase-price variance, delivery, lead time, and risk reduction. Maintain hands-on involvements: SRM. Critical supplier selection, negotiations, contracting, cost analysis, and resolution of critical supply issues. Partner with Engineering and Operations to support supplier transitions and make-versus-buy decisions.
• Continuous Improvement: Collaborate across Spectrum Control locations to standardize commodity practices, leverage enterprise-wide spend, and improve supply-chain performance. Automation and AI-actively seek opportunities to introduce new tools and automation. Establish and implement KPIs, best practice commodity framework and processes.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field; advanced degree or professional certification is preferred.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, commodity management or supply-chain management, including 2+ years of direct people management experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing sourcing, procurement, or commodity-management professionals.
• Experience sourcing technical components, materials, or manufacturing services within aerospace, defense, electronics, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
• Strong background in supplier negotiations, contract development, cost analysis, commodity strategy, and supplier performance management.
• Ability to understand technical requirements, drawings, specifications, bills of material, cost drivers, and manufacturing processes.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Program Management.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage strategic priorities while responding effectively to urgent production and supplier-related challenges.
• Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems, Microsoft Office applications, and data-analysis or business-intelligence tools.
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 30%.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This position may be based at Spectrum Control's facility in Marlborough, MA, or Philadelphia, PA. The role operates in a professional office environment with regular interaction on the manufacturing floor and at supplier facilities. Approximately 30% travel is required to Spectrum Control locations, supplier sites, and other business-related destinations. The role requires frequent collaboration across multiple locations and functions.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER/PROTECTED VETERANS/INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

Spectrum Control combines engineering expertise, innovation and manufacturing excellence to enable mission-critical solutions. Designed to solve complex problems in signal modulation and transmission, Spectrum Control solutions enable high quality product performance in the military and government, space, commercial, aerospace, security, medical, industrial and communications industries. Through proven experience and innovation, Spectrum Control delivers reliable solutions for the most rugged environments in the world - and beyond. Our team works to understand each customer’s needs at every level, which leads to long-term partnerships with our customers that transcend transactions and projects, helping to drive ongoing value at all levels of an organization. Spectrum Control operates by the following guiding principles: safety, integrity, respect, ethics, trust and continuous improvement. Spectrum Control is dedicated to delivering highly-engineered, reliable products that help save, enhance and protect lives. The company employs a secure, trusted, innovative, empowered and resilient environment to collaborate across the organization to deliver impactful results to our customers. Founded in 1981, Spectrum Control brought together the power of several trusted brands and formed a uniquely capable partner for RF/microwave, electromagnetic, and security solutions. Over the past 70 years, the company's engineers and technologists have led the way in creating high-quality solutions for demanding environments everywhere. Today, Spectrum Control's team includes 1,300+ people working across 14 design/manufacturing centers in North America and Europe.