Commodity Manager, Procurement

Arconic is currently in search of a Procurement Commodity Manager to join our Rolled Products North America Team based out of Pittsburgh, PA, Davenport, IA, Lancaster, PA or Alcoa, TN.

At Arconic, we take pride in our work and our innovative products and technologies that advance sustainable solutions for a better world. We strive to create a safe, inclusive, and collaborative workplace with competitive benefits, development opportunities and a culture that values and rewards employees on all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Direct responsibility for spend within the respective Indirect Materials and Services Categories assigned.
• Achieve Procurement targets for assigned categories inclusive of cost, innovation, quality, working capital and supplier performance
• Leads collaboration with key stakeholders to define, develop and execute Procurement strategies to arrive at the best total value solution for the company
• Maintains business relationships with representatives of strategic suppliers for Indirect Materials and Services.
• Leads, co-leads, or supports commercial sourcing activity across assigned Indirect Materials and Services categories as required to meet company objectives (e.g. e-Auction, RfX processes)
• Leads, co-leads, or supports non-commercial events as required to meet objectives, including, but not limited to Kaizen workshops, Working Capital/Inventory Workshops
• Executes contract authoring and Terms and Conditions negotiations with suppliers classified in assigned categories and projects by collaborating with internal legal resources and stakeholder teams
• Accountable for Performance areas: Cost Savings (SRT), Supplier performance, challenging of material & service specifications (demand management)
• The candidate will be responsible for contract management of assigned categories and fully accountable for developing Supplier Metric Scorecards and establishing Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR’s) for Indirect Categories, where applicable.
• This position requires travel, up to 25% of the time. Travel will generally be planned well in advance.