Strategic Commodity Manager – Sourcing & Cost Reduction

Constellium SE; Muscle Shoals (AL); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Constellium Muscle Shoals seeks a procurement expert specializing in maintenance, MRO spare parts, and packaging materials. The role aims to minimize warehouse inventory value while ensuring plant operations run smoothly.

Responsibilities include driving the buying cycle, fostering competitive purchasing, and leading strategic sourcing projects from inception to execution, with strong cost-control measures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field required.
• 3-5 years’ manufacturing experience preferred.
• Solid working knowledge of SAP.
• Ability to present business case and show cost reduction.
• Team player with proactive approach.

Responsibilities

• Place a procurement mind set in front of the buying cycle.
• Bring a competitive environment to the purchasing area.
• Provide local input for global consolidation.
• Maximize all opportunities nationally; manage and prioritize critical demands.
• Prepare RFP/RFQ and lead projects from inception to execution.

Skills

Procurement mindset

Cost reduction

Team player

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in related field

Tools

SAP

Job description

Leading subject matter expert for assigned commodities such as but not limited to MRO spare parts, maintenance, petro-chemical, packaging, and consumables. In addition, focused experienced on reducing warehouse inventory value.

Responsibilities:

• Place a procurement mind set in front of the buying cycle
• Bring a competitive environment to the purchasing area
• Provide local input for global consolidation
• Maximize all opportunities nationally
• Manage and prioritize critical demands, verify scope and spec of project to keep plant operational.
• Prepare RFP/RFQ and lead projects from inception to execution following strategic sourcing methodology
• Issue purchase orders once requisition is issued by Project Manager, applying sense of urgency when critical equipment parts or services are required
• Streamline amount of existing purchase orders (c.a 3000 / year) and benefit from leverage spend and blanket orders as opposed to fire drill approach.
• Ensure strong cost control and governance with internal stakeholders
• Ensure leveraging maximization, best practices sharing and promote procurement influence and control process

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field
• Three to five (3-5
• ) years’ experience in a manufacturing environment
• Solid working knowledge of SAP
• Loves the action, and practice it
• Ability to present business case and show cost reduction from previous state
• Team player

Constellium Muscle Shoals is a major aluminum sheet supplier for the packaging and automotive markets. The plant has ~1,200 employees and more than 100 acres under room, including five casting units, hot and cold rolling mills, and a slitting and finishing center. Muscle Shoals produces aluminum sheet for use in all three components of beverage cans (body stock, coated end stock, tab stock) and has the capacity to produce over 1 billion pounds per year of finished aluminum coils. The plant also produces aluminum automotive coils to be processed at our CALP line in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Muscle Shoals’ world-class recycling center is able to recycle the equivalent of 20 billion aluminum cans per year.

Constellium is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.