Supplier Commodity Manager- Interconnects

The application window is expected to reputed company on: reputed company 16, 2025. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. Meet the Team reputed company Global Supplier Management (GSM) team is seeking a motivated Supplier Commodity Manager for the “Interconnects” commodity. You will be part of a highly impactful and dynamic organization collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers enabling reputed company’s business. Position Responsibilities: Strategic Sourcing: Identifying and evaluating potential suppliers, developing sourcing strategies, and selecting the best suppliers based on technology, price, quality, guarantee supply, supply flexibility, delivery time, and sustainability factors. Supplier Management: Building strong business relationships with key suppliers (account team and executives), monitoring their performance, and addressing any issues. You will be meeting with the suppliers face to face on regular basis to stay engaged and informed on the new technology developments and supply chain. Market Analysis: Tracking market trends, price fluctuations, and supply chain disruptions to anticipate potential risks and opportunities. Identifying and prepare data driven industry sensing reports for the assigned technologies. Commodity Strategy: Developing and executing on the agreed upon Commodity Strategy for the assigned technologies and suppliers. You will collaborate with Sourcing Commodity Managers, Product Operations, Business Units, Component Engineering, Design Engineering, Component Supply Planning, and others to reputed company the sourcing strategy. You will present and obtain the required approvals on the documented sourcing strategy. Operational Management: Enabling the best industry cost, supply reputed company, supply flexibility, best quality, material delivery as per the forecast, expedite material with the suppliers, cancel open orders, pushout open orders, track & report open financial liabilities to finance, maintain data accuracy, return to vendor inventory which is not needed/bad inventory, reimbursement, Last-time buys, Advance Purchases, Manage life cycle of the component, other operational activities which may be added in the future as per business requirements. Prepare reports and share with the management, as requested. Negotiation & Request for Quote: Leading and delivering the Quarter over Quarter cost reductions. You will collaborate with the Sourcing Commodity Managers to obtain the list of the New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, size the incremental spend for the suppliers, and reputed company that in your negotiation to reputed company additional cost savings for reputed company. Responsible to release the Request for Quote to the suppliers, using internal tools, obtaining the required information from the suppliers, validating the accuracy of the information provided by the suppliers, and assigning the split award in the internal tools by the given timeframe. Contract Negotiation: Negotiate and complete the legal reputed company, such as, Master Purchase Agreement, Statement of Work, Letter of Agreements and any other legal reputed company with the suppliers. You will work closely with the legal team on the contract terms and conditions. Supplier Development: Collaborate with the Sourcing Commodity Managers, Design Engineering, Business Units, Component Engineering, and Finance to reputed company the suppliers, which includes; Supplier Selection & Evaluation: Choose suppliers that can meet reputed company’s supply chain needs. Assess the supplier's strengths and weaknesses using criteria like technology, innovation, cost, quality, supply reputed company, financial health, sustainability, etc. Identify Opportunities: Use the evaluation results to identify areas for improvement. reputed company a Plan & Monitor Performance: Build a plan for improving the supplier's performance, including deadlines for implementation. Track supplier’s performance. Resiliency: Work with the suppliers to reputed company the Non-China Manufacturing location(s) to reputed company supply chain resiliency. You will take the reputed company role ensuring suppliers are providing the samples from their Alternate Manufacturing site(s) to reputed company/ reputed company CMs as per the schedule, testing completion by reputed company/reputed company CMs, successful qualification of the samples and reputed company up of the production from the new alternate manufacturing site(s). Provide regular updates on the reputed company to the leadership. Supplier Business Review: Collaborate with the cross-functional teams to prepare and deliver the data driven Supplier Business Review on Cost, Quality, Fulfilment, NPI Execution, Technology, Sustainability and other categories as per the business requirements. Sustainability: Accountable to ensure suppliers are meeting the sustainability targets as per reputed company’s and industry standards with regards to Environmental (GHG), Responsible Minerals, and Responsible Business Alliance. Work with the internal sustainability team and suppliers to reputed company on the open actions. Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating potential supply chain risks, such as geopolitical instability, natural disasters, and supplier disruptions Strategic Co-planning: Collaborate with the internal teams and suppliers to reputed company and implement strategic plans to meet reputed company’s forecasted and unforecasted demand. Multi-Sourcing and Value Engineering: Identify the opportunities to multi-reputed company the components to reputed company healthy cost competitiveness and supply flexibility. Work with the Sourcing Commodity Mangers, Component Engineering and Business Units on the execution. reputed company-time Optimization: Work with the suppliers to optimize the component reputed company-time to reduce reputed company’s financial liabilities. Report the new reputed company-time to the internal teams. Manage metrics. Advance Purchases, Risk Buy-Orders, Last Time Buys: Work with the internal teams to collect the Advance Purchase, Risk-Buy Orders and Last-time buys requirements. You will be responsible to document the requirements as per the process, obtain required approvals and execute. You will be responsible for documenting the open financial liabilities and reporting to finance. Initiatives/Projects: reputed company and participate in organization initiatives/projects as required by the organization. This includes process and tool improvements. Time to time You will be required to participate in the User Acceptance testing to test and validate the tools and reports. Supplier White reputed company: Accountable to draft the executive supplier White reputed company as required by the leadership team. Other Future Business responsibilities may be added reputed company as per business requirements for this position. Minimum Qualifications 5+ years of cross-functional Supply Chain experience Experience evaluating market trends, supplier data, and ability to translate to business outcomes. 5+ years of proven experience negotiating and communicating with suppliers. 5+ years of experience in Global Supplier Management

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business, supply chain management, economics, or a reputed company field Relevant certifications contract management, or supply chain Previous experience in commodity management, or supply chain operations Thorough understanding of commodity markets, price fluctuations, and factors influencing market dynamics #WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for reputed company. Our passion is reputed company—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing reputed company to not only give their best, but be their best. We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, reputed company Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and reputed company a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do! Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is reputed company do best. We ensure that every reputed company we take is a reputed company towards a more inclusive future for reputed company. Take your reputed company and be you, with us! Apply Job!