Senior Global Commodity Manager

General Motors; Warren, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation benefits

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Global Commodity Manager to direct global strategy for key commodities from Warren, Michigan, with hybrid work expectations. The role focuses on cost competitiveness, supply resilience, and innovation, leading supplier engagements and cross-functional collaboration to deliver procurement excellence.

You will guide teams, drive strategic sourcing, manage contracts, and ensure compliant, efficient procurement processes across direct and indirect commodities,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; 10+ years in global purchasing/procurement.
• Demonstrated track record leading teams (4–5+ people) and driving results.
• Strong negotiation, supplier management, and analytical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive commodity strategy.
• Lead global teams to develop sourcing recommendations across regions.
• Collaborate with engineering, logistics, legal, and other functions to drive cost reduction.
• Oversee procurement activities, sourcing strategy, and contract negotiations.
• Ensure capacity alignment and compliance with regulations (FTA, IRA).
• Provide guidance for successful program execution and development of new products/processes.

Skills

Global procurement

Negotiation

Supplier management

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Travel planning

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

SAP

Power BI

Job description

Job Description

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to the Warren, Michigan location at least 3 times a week (or other frequency dictated by their manager). The Senior Global Commodity Manager will lead the global strategy for critical commodities, driving cost competitiveness, supply resilience, and innovation across a dynamic, multi-tier network. Your decisions will shape the future of mobility and electrification worldwide. This role offers the opportunity to influence industry standards, develop strategic supplier partnerships, and lead initiatives that transform the industry. The Senior Global Commodity Manager is responsible for conducting purchasing activities to support sourcing, contract and supplier management activities in line with departmental strategy and objectives. As a leader, you will provide technical guidance to the team for successful execution of commodity strategies for our indirect or direct commodities as well as lead the development of new products, processes, standards, or operational plans. You will also be responsible for leading a team, fostering employee development and training, driving performance management, and maintaining an efficient organizational structure.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Develop and execute a comprehensive Business Plan and commodity strategy
• Lead business plan/tactics to reach overall global targets on a day-to-day basis
• Lead global teams in all regions in developing commodity strategies and sourcing recommendations for specified commodity, considering regional specifics this also includes early Supplier Engagement and Strategic Sourcing
• Oversee, monitor and coach employees in different locations and build effective global team
• Collaborate with Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Legal, Corporate Development and other internal partners to develop procurement strategies, clarify prerequisites and to drive cost reduction
• Analyze and apply appropriate tools, i.e. cost models, benchmarking, global competitive sourcing, value chain analysis, supplier negotiations, engineering change cost containment, technical cost reduction, part/system reuse, etc.
• Responsible for managing the overall procurement activities, development of sourcing strategy, negotiation of contracts and execution of budget from cradle to grave
• Develop and execute capacity assessment of components to match GM demand with supplier capacity, with a focus on compliance requirements (FTAs, IRA, as applicable)
• Provide technical and business process guidance to the team for successful execution of programs
• Lead on the development of new products, processes, standards, or operational plans.
• Support for the organization's business strategies with a direct impact on business and function overall results.
• Lead Supplier relationships and operational Issues

Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 10+ years of experience in global purchasing or procurement
• Proven track record of directly leading teams with a minimum of 4-5 people, driving results, and personal accountability with oneself and team
• Demonstrated Negotiation, Supplier Management, Team Orientation, Informative Communication and Analytical Thinking Skills
• Strategic Orientation, willingness to learn, adapt & be agile, comfort in challenging norms, dealing with ambiguity
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to lead diverse/cross-functional teams as well as mentor, motivate and elicit work output from peers and other team members
• Ability to travel 10-20% of the time Domestically + Internationally

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience Developing and Negotiating Contracts
• Knowledge of SAP
• Developed skillset with respect to data management tools: Power BI, Excel, TMS, AI, etc.
• Finance and Cost Engineering experience
• Strategic planning and execution
• Negotiation skills

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.).

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