Commodity Manager

Company: Agilent
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: October 8, 2021

Job Description:

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Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance the quality of life. We provide life science, diagnostic and applied market laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications and expertise. Agilent enables customers to gain the answers and insights they seek -- so they can do what they do best: improve the world around us. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.

The Commodity Manager assures the procurement and inventory management of high technology or life sciences production and/or non-manufacturing materials, equipment and/or services in accordance with supply chain optimization and management objectives.

Responsibilites include:

• Coordinating material sourcing for new product introduction (NPI) projects, in collaboration with R&D
• Establishing and managing supplier relationships including negotiating contracts and prices, monitoring supplier performance, selecting/analyzing the supply base and developing and executing the site supplier strategies and commodity plans
• May directly lead suppliers or manufacturer or original design manufacturer relationships to ensure inventory optimization
• May be responsible for contributing to or leading process improvement efforts, such as in new product introduction (NPI), resourcing, cost reduction, compliance and/or quality
• May have global responsibility and/or support multiple sites
• Reducing broad concepts, business strategies into structured projects
• Leading the design/ delivery of new processes/ programs; is the key technical contributor
• Solving complex, high impact procurement process/ program design/ development problems

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