Senior Commodity Manager

Senior Commodity Manager

Location:

Malaysia - Penang

Veeco touches the lives of every person, every day. From smartphones to cloud-based services, high-speed wireless communication, and computing power for artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, gaming, and more, our technology is all around us. We design, develop, manufacture, and service highly complex, cutting-edge machines used by customers to create the essential devices that drive the digital age, connect the world, and improve the human experience.

We're looking for material difference-makers to join our growing team.

This position is responsible for ensuring the development, execution, and management of commodity strategies in support of business objectives for the commodities assigned. The person will need to apply skills in understanding business, technical and supply chain requirements, performing market research, and effectively working across business units, functions and with suppliers to create and execute commodity strategies that best leverage supplier capabilities and the company's procurement spend and meet corporate objectives of quality, cost, delivery and customer service.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership in and develops an understanding of and insight into the market for the commodities assigned; including industry trends, cost drivers, global pricing, lead-times, technology and manufacturing capability of company suppliers and suppliers in the market that best meet expectations and objectives.
• Create, execute, maintain, and continually improve upon commodity strategies for the commodities assigned; focused on current and future alignment of technology requirements, and achieving objectives in terms of total cost, lead-time, capacity, inventory management, risk mitigation, and over all supply chain effectiveness.
• Lead cross business unit and cross functional teams to create and execute commodity strategies, continuous improvement and supply projects; facilitating medium size groups effectively; designing and managing working sessions; involving and communicating to management as necessary.
• Anticipate, recognize, analyze and solve complex supply problems; communicating to and involving colleagues, management and stakeholders as necessary.
• Manage supplier relationships and performance to meet company expectations and objectives. Capable of managing the most complicated and difficult supplier relationships and performance issues.
• Negotiates best in class price, quality, delivery, payment and delivery terms, and customer service requirements that align with business objectives. Capable of negotiating and writing contracts as needed to purchase goods and services.
• Lead, coordinate and support on-site supplier visits, assessments, audits and continuous improvement opportunities to improve upon total cost and address issues with supplier performance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business; preferably Supply Chain or a related field. MBA is a plus.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in purchasing. Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in supply chain / strategic sourcing - APICS or CPM Certification highly desired.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communications skills
• Strong negotiations skills
• Complete knowledge of all aspects of purchasing including but not limited to:
  Source selection, price / cost analysis, negotiation, purchase justification and documentation
• Must be highly detailed and able to work multiple tasks independently with little direct supervision in a fast-paced environment
• Understands purchasing law as it applies to the purchasing function
• Electro-mechanical experience is a plus
• Experience in the vacuum and semi-conductor market place is desired
• Experienced in working within a contract manufacturing model is preferred
• Technical competence (understanding prints/spec's and manufacturing processes) is required

Veeco is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected characteristics. Veeco is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.