Global Commodity Manager, Plastics, Chemicals and Packaging

Summary:

The Plastics, Chemicals and Packaging Global Commodity Manager shall develop sourcing strategy for all goods and services. Negotiates and manages contracts and relationships with vendors. Implements policies and metrics to ensure that savings goals are realized. Works with technical buyers, engineers, product managers, development teams and upper management to identify new product needs.

Identifies new partners to best meet business requirements.  Has responsibility for quality control of vendor products.  The Global Commodity Manager shall execute and grow the vendor strategy to align PerkinElmer with best-matched vendor-partners to support each of our production sites and distribution centers.

A successful candidate should have good time management skills and prioritizing abilities and have the ability to multi-task between daily administration and operation tasks.  The candidate will need to have a balance of solid business acumen as well as a technical depth of knowledge for PCBA and Electrical components and assemblies

Responsibilities :

• Driving and analyzing RFI / RFP’s.
• Maintain Global Vendor relationships with ownership to costs, quality and compliance to PerkinElmer Policy and applicable law.
• Drive strategy of vendor selection for the production sites and the distribution centers.
• Strong Alignment to the R&D teams.
• Coordinating with R&D, Purchasing, Operations and Logistics to prepare and review standard cost reports.
• Ability to take calculated risks and reduce the non-value add and ensure a design-to-cost (DtC) mindset.
• Coordinating projects such as new business and new products to optimize the Business model, Engineering Material, Logistics and Manufacturing process.
• Overseeing the development of product cost for various component, systems and modules as well as coordinating interior resource to generate automatic standard cost system and database;
• Provide coaching and mentorship to all team members

Key Capabilities Requirements :

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply chain / Engineering / Business Management or any related discipline
• 8+ years of Procurement, Sourcing, Supply Chain Management or Engineering
• Strong Project Management skill set and experience in supporting NPI Development
• Proficient knowledge of Plastics, Chemicals and Packaging sourcing (and other) commodities
• Good organization, project management, communications, and negotiation skills
• Advanced skills in MS Excel and PowerPoint and SAP
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables, and projects.

The position is based in Singapore.