Indirect Commodity Manager - Professional Services

Hexion; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturing company is seeking an Indirect Commodity Manager to lead the sourcing and supplier management of professional services including HR, IT, and legal. The role requires strong analytical skills and over 7 years of experience in strategic sourcing. This remote position offers the opportunity to guide savings initiatives and enhance supplier performance across various corporate functions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in strategic sourcing or category management.
• Proven experience managing global categories like legal, consulting, HR services.
• Strong understanding of service contract structures and pricing models.

Responsibilities

• Lead global sourcing and supplier management of key third-party services.
• Develop and execute a global category strategy for professional services.
• Identify and execute cost savings opportunities through competitive sourcing.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Supplier management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Commercial acumen

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance or related discipline

Tools

Coupa

Icertis

Job description

Indirect Commodity Manager - Professional Services (US Remote)-US-OH,Columbus

Date: Oct 6, 2025

Location: Columbus, OH, US

Company Overview

Imagine Everything. Build the Future with Hexion.

At Hexion, we push boundaries, rethink possibilities, and create real impact. We activate science to deliver progress—developing breakthrough solutions that strengthen industries, protect communities, and drive a more sustainable future.

This is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.

We don’t follow the status quo—we challenge it, disrupt it, and improve it.Every role at Hexion is part of something bigger.

We invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development—equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.

Your Future Starts Here.

If you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong.

Anything is possible when you imagine everything.

Job Summary:

This is a remote position and can be located anywhere in the US.

We are seeking a strategic and commercially focused Indirect Commodity Manager – Professional Services to lead the global sourcing and supplier management of key third-party services across HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Consulting, and Contractor Services. With global responsibility for approximately $100M in indirect spend, this role is instrumental in delivering cost savings, optimizing supplier performance, and enabling best-in-class service partnerships across multiple corporate functions.

This individual will operate as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and functional leaders, managing sourcing initiatives from planning through contract execution. The role includes ownership of selected supplier relationships and requires strong commercial, analytical, and interpersonal skills to influence and deliver in a complex, centralized enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Category Strategy & Spend Management

• Develop and execute a global category strategy for professional services, covering HR, IT, Finance, Legal, Consulting, and contractor labor.
• Conduct global spend analysis, supplier segmentation, and market intelligence to identify cost reduction, performance improvement, and consolidation opportunities.
• Build and maintain multi-year sourcing roadmaps aligned to functional priorities and procurement objectives.

Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Advisory

• Lead RFx processes using Coupa, ensuring transparency, competitiveness, and business alignment.
• Support stakeholder teams as a commercial advisor throughout supplier selection, proposal evaluation, and negotiation phases.
• Structure pricing models and contracting approaches to reflect the nature of services (e.g., fixed fee, hourly, milestone-based).
• Partner closely with corporate stakeholders in HR, IT, Legal, and Finance to drive early engagement, budget alignment, and sourcing planning.
• Own and manage key supplier relationships where appropriate, driving performance, accountability, and value delivery.
• Facilitate quarterly business reviews and performance evaluations with high-priority suppliers and internal sponsors.

Contract Lifecycle Management & Risk Mitigation

• Use Icertis to manage the contract lifecycle, including contract drafting, redlining, execution, and renewal tracking.
• Collaborate with Legal and stakeholders to negotiate and execute robust contracts with clearly defined deliverables, SLAs, pricing, and risk terms.
• Ensure supplier compliance with contract terms and manage escalations or disputes as needed.

Cost Optimization & Performance Management

• Identify and execute cost savings opportunities through competitive sourcing, vendor rationalization, rate benchmarking, and demand management.
• Define and track supplier performance metrics and ensure alignment with service-level expectations.
• Support annual budgeting, cost forecasting, and function-level savings target tracking in collaboration with Finance.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

Metric

• Annual cost savings / cost avoidance
• Supplier on-time delivery or service adherence
• Spend under preferred supplier contracts
• Stakeholder satisfaction (survey or scorecard)
• SLA compliance and issue resolution cycle time
• Contract lifecycle compliance (via Icertis)

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, or a related discipline
• 7+ years of experience in strategic sourcing or category management with a strong focus on professional services
• Proven experience managing global categories such as legal, consulting, HR services, IT services, and contractors
• Strong understanding of service contract structures, pricing models, and risk terms
• Experience with Coupa (for sourcing) and Icertis (for contract lifecycle management)
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across centralized corporate functions
• Strong analytical capability, including cost modeling and supplier performance analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or master’s degree in Procurement, Finance, or Business
• Experience operating in a global or matrixed environment with centralized procurement governance
• Familiarity with SOW development, contingent labor compliance, and vendor performance management
• Knowledge of supplier consolidation strategies and professional services procurement best practices

Other

We are an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, pregnancy, race, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or military status, status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other characteristic protected by law.