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Commodity & Supply Chain Manager – Hybrid, 3 days a week
Indigo Slate. Help clients manage critical commodities and long-lead equipment from market insight through commercial commitment and delivery .
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Demonstrates expertise in commodity management, supplier relationship management, and strategic sourcing, with a strong focus on should-cost modeling, supplier qualification, and risk mitigation strategies. Proficient in leveraging predictive analytics and machine learning for demand forecasting and decision-making in complex supply chain environments.
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Should-Cost ModelingSupplier QualificationPredictive AnalyticsNegotiation StrategySupply Chain Planning
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Hard Skills
Should-Cost ModelingCost-Driver AnalysisSupplier EconomicsSQLPythonExcel ModelingSupply-Chain AnalyticsMachine Learning TechniquesCapacity CommitmentsCompetitive Sourcing
Soft Skills
FacilitationCommunicationStorytellingAnalytical SkillsRelationship Management
Tools & Technologies
SAP AribaCoupaSAP SCM 09Google Collaboration Tools
Industry Keywords
Commodity ManagementSupplier RelationshipProcurement TransformationOperations ConsultingLong-Lead Equipment
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudPythonSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Help clients manage critical commodities and long-lead equipment from market insight through commercial commitment and delivery
- Build and maintain market, price, capacity, allocation, and lead-time views across critical commodity and equipment categories
- Develop should-cost models, cost-driver analyses, buy-versus-hedge scenarios, and reusable sourcing plays
- Translate market and supplier signals into hedge, lock, source, qualification, and escalation recommendations
- Use licensed market sources, supplier engagement, and client purchase-order and quotation history to create defensible decision baselines
- Apply predictive analytics and machine-learning techniques for demand forecasting, price and lead-time scenarios, supplier-risk sensing, anomaly detection, and early-warning indicators
- Design AI-supported decision workflows with transparent assumptions, source traceability, confidence thresholds, and human approval
- Assess supplier capability, capacity, allocation position, quality, and performance
- Support supplier qualification, competitive sourcing, negotiation strategy, capacity commitments, factory acceptance, and delivery adherence
- Build supplier scorecards and structured relationship-management practices for critical vendors
- Help clients secure priority and capacity ahead of build schedules
- Work with procurement, planning, engineering, construction, finance, and suppliers to turn market intelligence into practical decisions and measurable outcomes
- Establish governance and operating rhythms that enable client teams to sustain commodity-management capabilities
Requirements
What you’ll need- 6+ years of experience in commodity management, supplier relationship, strategic sourcing, supply-chain planning, procurement transformation, operations consulting, or a related field
- Deep capability in should-cost modeling, cost-driver analysis, supplier economics, negotiation strategy, competitive sourcing, and buy-versus-hedge decisions
- Ability to combine incomplete market, quotation, supplier, and transaction data into defensible recommendations with explicit assumptions, confidence, and risk
- Experience assessing supplier capability, capacity, allocation position, quality, and performance
- Experience with supplier qualification, scorecards, competitive events, commercial negotiations, capacity commitments, factory acceptance, and delivery-performance management
- Ability to identify and mitigate single-source, geographic, tariff, logistics, specification, quality, and qualification exposure
- Ability to develop dual-source, alternate-supplier, buffer, and contingency strategies
- Ability to connect forecasts, build waves, order timing, supplier capacity, and schedule-critical milestones
- Success advising cross-functional and executive stakeholders in global, client-facing environments
- Ability to facilitate decisions, clarify roles and escalation paths, translate complex analysis into executive choices, establish operating rhythms and measures, create playbooks, train users, and transfer sustainable capability to client teams
- Experience shaping proposals, statements of work, estimates, and RFP responses
- Experience translating scope into workplans, milestones, stakeholder inputs, and measurable outcomes
- Experience maintaining delivery quality, commercial discipline, risk escalation, and client trust
- Working knowledge of SQL, Python, and Excel modeling
- Experience with SAP Ariba, Coupa, or SAP SCM 09 and Google collaboration tools
- Strong facilitation, communication, storytelling, analytical, negotiation, and relationship-management skills
- Knowledge of supply-chain analytics and cloud AI
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, procurement, engineering, operations, finance, economics, data science, or a related discipline
- Experience with long-lead, capital-intensive, or schedule-critical categories is required
- Datacenter experience is advantageous
Benefits
Comp & perks- Comprehensive benefit package for all full-time employees
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Open environment encouraging brainstorming and creative thinking
- Time-out activities
- Offices designed to foster creativity and communication