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The Senior Global Commodity Manager is responsible for ensuring quality materials and services, while procuring them at competitive market pricing. The role oversees suppliers to continuously improve quality, delivery and price to support supply chain operations.

This position reports to the Sr Manager Global Procurement and is part of the Global Procurement Team l ocated in Indianapolis, IN and is an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead a global category strategy implementation managing suppliers to support Quality, Cost, Cash, Service, Risk

• Support internal customers including up to 10 global Operations organizations and R&D/ New Product Introduction

• Lead RFQ and quote analysis, evaluating vendors' capability, quality, reliability and price competitiveness

• Achieve year over year savings including cost negotiations, value engineering programs, contracting, competitive bidding, should costing

• Manage projects with agility changing direction according to business dynamics

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years procurement/sourcing experiences in supply chain or Masters degree with 5+ years experience

• Proven experience with procurement concepts, principles, and practices as well as strong results negotiating with suppliers on master supply agreements, inventory agreements, part costs, etc.

• Experience with project management working with team members globally and contributing materially to specific programs and projects with significant scope that impact organizational schedules, resources and costs

• Demonstrated skills utilizing a variety of technical concepts, standards, and practices in global commodity material pricing, category manufacturing process knowledge, general procurement quoting, supplier measurement and strategy development tools.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 15% including global

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Supply chain or operations experience in Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices or Healthcare industries

• Exposure to and/ or understanding of ISO 13485, Good Manufacturing Practice, In Vitro Diagnostic or similar quality system certifications

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