Sourcing / Commodity Manager

Parker Aerospace; MacGregor Park (NC); Presencial; USD 100.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Parker Hannifin is seeking a Commodity Manager to lead global sourcing strategies for a defined business segment and manage the supply base. You will oversee a team of Sourcing Agents and drive negotiations, RFQ processes, and supplier awards to meet technical and cost targets.

The role emphasizes Total Cost of Ownership, risk reduction, and supply chain performance, with travel up to 30% to support strategy development and supplier evaluations. Based in Cary, NC or Erie, PA.

Formación

• 8–10 years of sourcing experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering.
• Experience with direct contract and price negotiations.
• Demonstrated past success in global sourcing and value analysis with external suppliers.
• Understanding of MRP Systems, specifically supply chain transactions and master data.
• Microsoft 365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint)

Responsabilidades

• Directly, and/or via their team, coordinates development, communication and implementation of commodity and negotiation strategies on a global basis.Strategies will focus on Total Cost of Ownership, Risk Reduction and current corporate and regional metrics.
• Responsible for negotiating complex business agreements and other contractual instruments with a global supply base.
• Drives all key sourcing decisions on global supply base for the defined business segment within the Division.
• Identify, evaluate, and select suppliers that meet technical, quality, cost, delivery, and capacity requirements, including coordination of material samples required by the technology team.
• Lead supplier RFQ processes, cost analysis, negotiations, and supplier award recommendations to support business and project objectives.
• Drive supplier readiness activities, including capacity planning, lead-time validation, risk assessment, and production ramp-up support.
• Support the transition from development sourcing to production purchasing, ensuring clear handoff and ongoing supply chain ownership.
• Responsible for communicating and managing changes in demand and/or material costs for raw materials by maintaining close communications with the Sourcing Agents, supply base, sales, technology and manufacturing entities.Management of these changes includes expansion/contraction of supply base and insource/outsource of manufactured products.
• Identification and management of issues related to flow, turn, and economic order quantities, length of supply chain, storage requirements, and obsolescence.
• Development and implementation of risk reduction activities for the defined business segment within the Division.
• Travel to global manufacturing facilities and suppliers to facilitate strategy development/implementation, negotiations, development of global relationships and supplier manufacturing site evaluations.Travel may be up to thirty (30) percent of the time.

Conocimientos

Sourcing experience

Contract negotiations

Global sourcing & value analysis

MRP systems understanding

Educación

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering

Herramientas

Microsoft 365

Descripción del empleo

Position Summary

The Commodity Manager is responsible for sourcing strategies and supply base performance for a defined business segment within that Division. The development of strategies and management of that supply base are achieved directly by the Commodity Manager, or may include leading a team of Sourcing Agents that are responsible for individual commodities.

This role can be locating in Cary, NC or Erie, PA.

Responsibilities

• Directly, and/or via their team, coordinates development, communication and implementation of commodity and negotiation strategies on a global basis.Strategies will focus on Total Cost of Ownership, Risk Reduction and current corporate and regional metrics.
• Responsible for negotiating complex business agreements and other contractual instruments with a global supply base.
• Drives all key sourcing decisions on global supply base for the defined business segment within the Division.
• Identify, evaluate, and select suppliers that meet technical, quality, cost, delivery, and capacity requirements, including coordination of material samples required by the technology team.
• Lead supplier RFQ processes, cost analysis, negotiations, and supplier award recommendations to support business and project objectives.
• Drive supplier readiness activities, including capacity planning, lead-time validation, risk assessment, and production ramp-up support.
• Support the transition from development sourcing to production purchasing, ensuring clear handoff and ongoing supply chain ownership.
• Responsible for communicating and managing changes in demand and/or material costs for raw materials by maintaining close communications with the Sourcing Agents, supply base, sales, technology and manufacturing entities.Management of these changes includes expansion/contraction of supply base and insource/outsource of manufactured products.
• Identification and management of issues related to flow, turn, and economic order quantities, length of supply chain, storage requirements, and obsolescence.
• Development and implementation of risk reduction activities for the defined business segment within the Division.

• Travel to global manufacturing facilities and suppliers to facilitate strategy development/implementation, negotiations, development of global relationships and supplier manufacturing site evaluations.Travel may be up to thirty (30) percent of the time.

Qualifications

Required

• Eight (8) to ten (10) years of sourcing experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in one of these academic focus area:Business, Supply Chain, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering.
• Experience with direct contract and price negotiations.
• Demonstrated past success in global sourcing and value analysis with external suppliers.
• Understanding of MRP Systems, specifically supply chain transactions and master data.
• Microsoft 360 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint)

Preferred

• Five (5) to Eight (8) years of chemical sourcing experience dealing with chemical commodities
• Three (3) to Eight (5) years of direct report management experience
• Certified Purchasing Manager
• ASQ or IASSC Green/Black Belt

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Aff…; U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations. (“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)

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Drug-Free Workplace

In accordance with Parker’s policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.