Commodity Buyer

Location: Novi, MI or Shorter, AL

Primary Responsibilities

Will be responsible to function as a principle commodity buyer for the Americas. The overall role of this position is to participate in the development of and execution of commodity strategies as well as manage the overall strategic and transactional relationships with the suppliers. He or she will lead all initial sourcing and resourcing actions in support of the sourcing selection process for these commodities by using the lowest delivered cost method. The nominee is also responsible to deliver cost savings for existing suppliers, lead/support strategic supplier business reviews, and lead roadmap discussions with preferred suppliers.

Typical Duties

• Commodity Strategy development
• Sourcing selection
• Conduct supplier benchmarking exercises and commercial analyses
• Send RFQ's to preferred suppliers based ...