Commodity Lead – Strategic Procurement
We’re looking for a senior procurement professional to lead commodity strategy across materials, components and tooling. The role focuses on developing robust sourcing strategies, managing strategic suppliers and ensuring supply chain resilience that supports both new product introduction and ongoing production.
You’ll shape long‑term commodity plans, drive competitive cost outcomes and ensure sourcing decisions balance quality, delivery, capability, sustainability and risk. The position also plays a key role in supplier readiness for new programmes, commercial negotiations and proactive risk management across the global supply base.
Key focus areas:
• Developing and executing long‑term commodity sourcing strategies
• Leading RFQs, supplier selection and commercial negotiations
• Managing strategic supplier relationships and performance
• Delivering cost‑reduction targets and managing inflation/raw material exposure
• Ensuring supplier readiness for new product introduction and launch
• Identifying and mitigating supply chain risks (capacity, geopolitical, logistics, single‑source)
• Ensuring compliance with procurement governance, ethical sourcing and sustainability requirements