Senior Indirect Commodity Manager

At Delta Faucet, we are committed to transforming everyday experiences with water through innovative products and exceptional service. As a leader in the plumbing industry, we take pride in our dedication to quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our mission to create solutions that inspire and elevate the lives of all our customers. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us on this journey toward inclusivity and excellence.

Your Role at Delta Faucet

Do you enjoy developing new and creative ways to drive vision and improvement through strategies and initiatives around service, quality, and cost? If you do, Delta Faucet Company (DFC) has an excellent opportunity for you to join our Indianapolis corporate Supply Chain team!

The Senior Commodity Manager leads high impact sourcing activities with cross-functional team members to build commodity strategies and then implements to achieve / exceed desired goals and initiatives. In addition,isresponsibletomaintainrelationships with the company’s indirect material and service suppliers andevaluateshow those relationships fit into the overall supplychainshort and long-termobjectives. Leads the contracting process to support Delta Faucet’s business initiatives and collaborates with senior stakeholders both within the business unit and across the Masco enterprise.

Have a complete understanding of the supply base for specified commodities and understanding of all the cost drivers in the specific commodity.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Commodity Manager within DFC, you will have responsibility for sourcing strategies deployed globally to enable elite service, cost,qualityand working capital returns. Candidate will have professionalexpertisein Sourcing, processes, and systems. Responsible for developing and leading complex/large spend commodity strategies, contract negotiations, and supplier relationships.

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management

• Establishing the vision of the commodity(s) throughdevelopmentofobjectivesand strategies.

• Works closely with cross-functional areas of sales, engineering, marketing, operations,tradeand finance to ensure alignment and execution of market testing and new spend projects via RFP.

• Implements cost savings using various approachessuch as:value management, bidding, analytical modeling, supplier development, tail spend management and continuous improvements (Lean / Six Sigma).

• Adherence to compliance and department standard work.

• Performs special projects, stretch assignments, ad hoc managementrequestsand continuous improvement initiatives autonomously.

• Identify cost-saving opportunities and drive value through data-driven sourcing initiatives

Contract Negotiation & Supplier Relationship Management

• Ability to negotiate complex supplier agreements and implement solutions to business issues.

• Lead the full contract lifecycle for assigned Delta or Masco enterprise spend areas

• Builds and sustains relationships with suppliers to deliver products that consistently meet or exceed Delta’s supplier performance goals and compliance standards

• Lead Q ’s to ensure alignment between our business stakeholders and vendors

• Implement and lead SRM programs to drive continuous improvement and innovation

• Ensure alignment with procurement policies and organizational objectives

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate willpossessa bachelor’s degree with an emphasis in Purchasing, Operations, Supply Chain, IT, or related field.

• 8+ years of working experience in related fields above (proven success in sourcing and manufacturing organizations preferred).

• Demonstrated results leading supplier performance improvement projects.

• Excellent communication skills – ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.

• Continuous Improvement approach – take initiative toidentifystrategy gaps, lead change, and successfully implement results.

• Exhibit leadership skills and be a role model/mentor to develop others within the group and overall business.

• Proficient use of SAP (or equivalent ERP), Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams,PowerBI), Supplier portal solutions (GEP, Ariba), Project…