Jr. Commodity Manager

We value: Safety, Integrity, Ownership, Collaboration, Service, Sustainability

Moses Lake Industries, Inc. (MLI) is a rapidly growing producer of ultra-pure chemical products, serving the semiconductor and flat-panel screen industries worldwide. We deliver world‑class products to the leaders of the industries we serve.

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, onsite, Moses Lake, WA

• Development & Deployment:
  New sourcing strategies to improve quality, total cost, availability and drive competition. Identify new suppliers, create simplicity through supplier rationalization / optimization (Grow, Limit, Maintain, Phase Out), develop emerging market strategies, develop full lifecycle sourcing strategies (Pathfinding, NPD, R&D, HVM, Production, EOL). Link to Production, Commercial & Engineering while supporting transitions (test, ramp, EOL). Sustain business continuity plans (BCP), performs project management of strategic initiatives
• Savings Initiatives:
  Cost savings & roadmaps, inventory reduction. Design for Engineering (DFE) to drive lowest total cost, utilizing creativity and best practices. Negotiates contracts, identifies sourcing opportunities, keeps abreast of industry trends, understands material market movements and effects on commodities, P&L leader of commodity owned. Delivers save (PPV) and cost avoidance to set goals
• Quality:
  Supplier deep dive & due diligence (D&B, Z-score, etc.), supplier qualifications, change horizon, quality improvement plans, continuous improvement roadmap, audits, process maps / flows, SOP’s/WI, root cause analysis, 8D, CAPA, postmortems, scenario planning, risk assessments, business continuity planning (BCP)
• Supplier Relationship Management:
  Set strategic and operational direction for supplier, acts as escalation point, lead business reviews & executive business reviews, proliferates organizational initiatives/systems, supplier scorecards, generate non-binding forecasts. Project management & performance against schedule (PAS). Category / Commodity plans & reviews, maintain & analyze key commodity data, metrics and indicators (CSI/KPI)
• Supplier Contract Management:
  Supplier survey, selection, debrief & award, including RFI, RFP, RFQ, NDA, contracting, negotiation. Negotiate with suppliers to support save, contract penetration and other deliverables for contracts. Lead Stakeholder reviews and approvals for supplier contracts, monitors, assesses & re-bids/re-negotiates. Monitors supplier and company/facility contract compliance and performance

• Supply Chain degree preferred, minimum four-year business degree
• Commodity/Category Manager or related work experience preferably in chemical supply chain in R&D and high-volume-manufacturing (HVM) environments
• Semi-conductor or high-tech experience, preferred chemical background & experience
• Prefer certification as an APICS’ “Certified in Production and Inventory Management” (CPIM), “Certified Supply Chain Professional” (CSCP) and/or Institute of Supply Management (ISM) Certified Professional Supply Management (CPSM)
• Prefer LEAN, Six Sigma Yellow belt or Greenbelt
• Prefer Lead Audit certified, preferably ISO
  9001:2015 or supplier audit experience
• Analytical skills, planning, and problem-solving skills
• Previous experience with business acumen in global chemical supply chains
• Critical thinking, scenario planning, & risk mitigation techniques and systems
• Ability to work effectively with high tolerance of ambiguity
• Customer service, ability to work through others, teamwork
• Ability to influence, cross-organizationally & upward
• Self-starter with initiative and assertive, sets and meets goals
• Effective time manager that can balance competing priorities
• Ability to prioritize and plan operational workload, balance competing priorities
• Detail oriented, influential, working through others, negotiation, teamwork and strong customer orientation (internal/external)
• Resourceful & results oriented
• High organization & managing competing priorities
• Strategic thinker, scenario planner and risk mitigation
• Written and verbal communications, including presentation skills, in English
• Advanced working knowledge of computers and MS Office…