Staff Commodity Business Manager

(Hybrid: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday in Office)

The Staff Commodity Business Manager is responsible for managing strategic sourcing activities to ensure continuous supply to production and NPI.  Including spend analytics, savings and initiative tracking, sourcing tool configuration and application. Candidate will focus on end-to-end sourcing process, including supply base analysis, supplier selection, RFP preparation and analysis and KPI development/tracking. The ideal candidate should demonstrate sound knowledge of negotiation strategies and extensive experience in a similar role.

What You’ll Be Doing 

• Developing and implementing key commodities roadmaps (Life Science preferred).


• Negotiating Master Supplier Agreements (MSA) with key suppliers, including costs and terms of supply, service, and quality.


• Develop supplier selection strategy per category such as plastics (tips and trays), packaging, chemicals needed for manufacturing, and capital equipment distribution channels.


• Prepare and execute RFI/RFPs and lead bid analysis and evaluation.


• Estimating risks and applying risk minimizing techniques focusing on business continuity as well as reducing Sole and Single sources.


• Maintaining strategic sourcing relationships and developing strong partnerships.


• Uphold internal and external policies, regulations and laws.


• Follow regulatory and ISO 13485.

What You’ll Bring to the Team 

• Bachelor’s degree required, or related field or equivalent work experience in Life Science


• Experience in Life Science industry and/or Reagents commodities, plastics and equipment management background preferred.


• 5+ years’ experience as a Global Sourcing leader or in a similar position creating and deploying RFx, contracts negotiations, supplier and/or commodity strategies, and program management.


• Experience managing suppliers in a rapidly growing life sciences or high-technology manufacturing environment. 


• Experience developing programs, processes, and procedures to enable an effective scale-up of the supply chain function. 


• Commodity strategies development.


• Experience with RFQ implementation and execution.


• Superb communication skills.


• Advanced ability to collaborate and negotiate.

• Organizational and time management skills.


• Analytical and strategic thinking abilities.


• Willingness to travel to develop, promote, and maintain strategic sourcing relationships.


• Able to analyze, prepare, and deliver presentations to management. 


• Proficient with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. SAP knowhow preferred.