Strategic Commodity Manager: Growth & Solutions

SupplyCore Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks of PTO

14 holidays

Flexible work-life balance

Casual work environment

Education assistance

401K with Safe Harbor contributions

Wellness program

EAP

Medical, Dental, Vision & FSA

Life insurance

Short- & Long-Term Disability

On-site parking

Job summary

SupplyCore Inc. is seeking a Commodity Manager to lead a defined commodity portfolio, shaping category growth, market intelligence, and sales enablement.

You will translate supplier capabilities, market trends, and customer demand signals into actionable growth strategies and pursuit support across BOS and TLS, collaborating with Vendor Management, Sales, Analytics, and cross-functional teams. The role focuses on developing category plans, serving as SME for internal teams, and driving revenue

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in category management, supplier relations, defense, or procurement.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred, or equivalent work/military experience.
• Strong ability to translate supplier capabilities, market trends, product knowledge, and customer needs into practical customer solutions, growth strategies, and sales enablement tools.
• Knowledge of U.S. Government contracting and federal procurement processes is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute commodity/category growth strategies aligned with objectives, customer requirements, supplier capabilities, and priorities.
• Create category business plans, strategic roadmaps, market maps, and growth priorities for the assigned commodity area, with support from Vendor Management and Analytics.
• Serve as internal commodity subject matter expert for Account Managers, Business Development, and cross-functional teams by providing product, supplier, market, customer, and competitive intelligence.
• Translate supplier capabilities and market trends into practical customer solutions, repeatable solution concepts, capability packages, and sales enablement tools.
• Support major pursuits, capture efforts, proposals, supplier-enabled opportunities, demos, customer meetings, technical discussions, and pursuit planning as the category expert.
• Partner with Sales and Business Development to identify customer opportunities, improve customer positioning, increase win probability, and accelerate pipeline development.
• Partner with Vendor Management to identify supplier capabilities, supplier gaps, potential additions or removals, development priorities, and capability investments that support category growth strategies.
• Provide category expertise during supplier evaluations, business reviews, strategic discussions, and capability assessments without serving as the primary supplier relationship owner.
• Conduct commodity mapping exercises to identify whitespace, underrepresented capabilities, emerging OEMs, market gaps, technology trends, and competitive developments.
• Evaluate category performance, pricing dynamics, margin trends, pipeline activity, supplier incentives, and customer demand signals to recommend actions that improve revenue growth and profitability.
• Develop AM enablement materials, category playbooks, opportunity briefs, supplier/product positioning notes, competitive comparison tools, and internal training content.
• Partner with Marketing on supplier/category campaigns, trade show strategy, customer-facing collateral, and content needs.
• Partner with Operations to understand contract requirements, customer pain points, execution constraints, and category-related delivery considerations.
• Support growth across BOS and TLS programs, contract vehicles, customer segments, specified commodities, and strategic initiatives.
• Travel as needed to customer meetings, supplier meetings, industry events, trade shows, and internal planning sessions.

Skills

Category management

Supplier relations

Defense / Federal markets

Procurement

Supply chain

Technical product knowledge

CRM

MS Office

Communication skills

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Salesforce

Microsoft Office

Job description

SupplyCore Inc. is seeking a Commodity Manager to lead a defined commodity portfolio, shaping category growth, market intelligence, and sales enablement.

You will translate supplier capabilities, market trends, and customer demand signals into actionable growth strategies and pursuit support across BOS and TLS, collaborating with Vendor Management, Sales, Analytics, and cross-functional teams. The role focuses on developing category plans, serving as SME for internal teams, and driving revenue