What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Commodity Manager position at Mission Critical Group?
Description
Position Summary
The Senior Commodity Manager is responsible for leading strategic sourcing and commodity management across the enterprise, driving cost optimization, supplier performance, and supply continuity within a complex manufacturing or industrial environment. This role provides strategic and operational leadership across sourcing, procurement, planning, logistics, and supplier engagement to improve margin performance, working capital efficiency, and service levels.
The position plays a critical role in enterprise value creation by aligning supply chain execution with commercial demand, production capacity, and financial performance objectives. The Senior Commodity Manager partners closely with executive leadership and stakeholders to deliver scalable operational improvements and sustainable competitive advantage.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications
Position Summary
The Senior Commodity Manager is responsible for leading strategic sourcing and commodity management across the enterprise, driving cost optimization, supplier performance, and supply continuity within a complex manufacturing or industrial environment. This role provides strategic and operational leadership across sourcing, procurement, planning, logistics, and supplier engagement to improve margin performance, working capital efficiency, and service levels.
The position plays a critical role in enterprise value creation by aligning supply chain execution with commercial demand, production capacity, and financial performance objectives. The Senior Commodity Manager partners closely with executive leadership and stakeholders to deliver scalable operational improvements and sustainable competitive advantage.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise-wide supply chain strategy across sourcing, procurement, logistics, planning, and distribution.
- Drive cost optimization initiatives and margin improvement at scale across strategic commodity categories.
- Own supply chain P&L performance, working capital efficiency, and enterprise inventory strategy.
- Oversee supplier negotiations, vendor consolidation, and contract management to improve commercial commodity performance and reduce risk.
- Implement disciplined inventory management processes aligned with commercial forecasts and production capacity.
- Improve service levels, fill rates, and on-time delivery across multiple manufacturing and distribution facilities.
- Establish and maintain commodity management data integrity across ERP and supply chain systems.
- Lead digitization initiatives for spend classification, analytics standardization, and enterprise visibility of procurement data.
- Develop structured taxonomy and classification frameworks for commodity spend to support strategic sourcing and financial reporting.
- Build scalable analytics to support cost modeling, supplier performance measurement, and sourcing strategy execution.
- Build and lead high-performing supply chain teams and develop succession pipelines.
- Partner with executive leadership and private equity stakeholders on commodity operational value creation initiatives.
Qualifications
- 10 years of progressive supply chain leadership experience.
- Proven P&L ownership within complex manufacturing or industrial environments.
- Demonstrated track record of cost optimization and operational improvement at scale.
- Experience operating within a private equity-backed or performance-driven environment preferred.
- Strong ERP and supply chain systems expertise, including data governance and analytics platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; MBA or advanced business degree preferred.
- Strategic Sourcing and Commodity Management Strategies
- Financial acumen and margin management
- Supplier negotiation and contract strategy
- Commodity data governance and spend analytics
- S&OP\SIOP integrated commodity business planning (e.g., raw material, semi-finished, and finished goods).
- Operational transformation and continuous improvement
- ERP data integration and MRP planning and data governance
- Executive stakeholder engagement
- Organizational leadership and talent development
- Sustainable cost reduction and margin expansion
- Working capital and inventory optimization
- Supplier performance and risk mitigation
- Improved service level and delivery performance
- Enterprise commodity data integrity and spend visibility
- Digitized and standardized procurement classification frameworks
- Scalable supply chain processes and systems