Sourcing Global Commodity Leader - SMR Machining & Fabrication

Sourcing Global Commodity Leader – SMR Machining & Fabrication

The Sourcing Global Commodity Leader – SMR Machining & Fabrication is responsible for developing and executing the global commodity strategy for critical large-scale fabricated and machined components supporting Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programs, including reactor pressure vessels, reactor core internal components, and large heat exchangers. This role leads strategic sourcing initiatives across a complex global supply base to secure long-term capacity, optimize cost, mitigate supply and commercial risk, and deliver strong customer value across all SMR projects.

This leader partners closely with Sales & Operations Planning, project commodity leaders, fulfillment leaders, engineering, quality, and project teams to align supply chain strategies with demand signals, execution realities, and customer-specific requirements. The role requires deep commercial acumen, strong analytical capability, executive-level communication skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority. Success in this role depends on building global market insight, negotiating sophisticated long-term agreements, developing suppliers, and translating enterprise commodity strategies into actionable plans across project execution teams.

The Sourcing Global Commodity Leader – SMR Machining & Fabrication will:

• Develop and lead the global commodity strategy for SMR machining and fabrication categories, with primary responsibility for large, complex, and heavy equipment components.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the global supply market for heavy fabrication and precision machining.
• Gather, analyze, and communicate market intelligence to inform strategic sourcing decisions.
• Assess and proactively manage risk across the commodity portfolio.
• Partner closely with the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process to understand current and future demand profiles and integrate demand visibility into long-term sourcing and capacity strategies.
• Translate demand forecasts into actionable sourcing strategies that ensure the availability of long-term supplier capacity in support of business growth, project execution requirements, and customer commitments.
• Collaborate with project commodity leaders and fulfillment leaders to gather real-time supplier and execution performance data and apply these insights to strengthen broader commodity strategies and strategic decision-making.
• Work cross-functionally with sourcing, engineering, quality, legal, finance, manufacturing, project management, and commercial teams to ensure sourcing strategies are aligned with business priorities and are practical for execution.
• Partner with project leaders to understand customer-specific technical, commercial, and schedule requirements and adjust strategic sourcing levers accordingly to optimize supply chain outcomes.
• Develop sourcing strategies that appropriately balance cost, capacity, quality, technical capability, delivery performance, risk, customer-specific needs, and total landed cost.
• Lead the negotiation and execution of complex commercial agreements, including long-term agreements, capacity reservation agreements, supply agreements, cost-out frameworks, co-investment arrangements, and new supplier development agreements.
• Structure commercial agreements that secure strategic outcomes, including long-term capacity access, improved cost competitiveness, supply continuity, risk mitigation, supplier capability development, and enhanced customer value.
• Identify, assess, and develop new suppliers capable of meeting long-term SMR program requirements, including technical, quality, commercial, and capacity expectations.
• Support supplier development initiatives designed to strengthen supplier capability, improve quality systems, enhance delivery performance, and advance commercial readiness.
• Drive total landed cost optimization through the evaluation of global sourcing alternatives, logistics considerations, duty and tariff impacts, localization opportunities, and broader cross-border supply chain tradeoffs.
• Establish scalable commodity strategies that can be deployed…