· Manages global category spend for approximately $350M.
· Responsible for building and executing category strategy for Copper and Aluminum material which optimizes affordability, availability, agility, and innovation. Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective global supply markets, competitors, and product innovations.
· Establishes a cross-functional network and fosters collaboration with suppliers, wider supply chain organization, engineering, quality, and product management
· Owns the vendor performance data and reports metrics to leadership
· Manages external relationships with suppliers and assumes responsibility for all internal activities and decisions associated with the assigned categories and suppliers, including contract negotiations, new products development, approved vendor lists, re-sourcing, dual qualification, pricing changes, quality, and capacity.
· Develop the commodity management team to drive global performance in collaboration with regional commodity teams and the Center of Excellence team.