Global Commodity Specialist (Metals - Instruments)

Global Commodity Specialist (Metals – Instruments)

Full time, Llantrisant, United Kingdom, Req ID JR-044012.

Summary: Leading the metals commodity globally for Diagnostic and Life Science instrumentation, partnering with manufacturing, R&D, and business leaders to provide strategic sourcing expertise for day‑to‑day operations and product road-map planning. The role supports the plastics and fluidics commodities as well.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Developing the global preferred supplier network, driving major material‑related productivity projects, and identifying new suppliers.
• Partnering with site procurement teams to drive supplier performance and cultivate redundancy and resiliency across the instrument supply chain.
• Identifying key suppliers, evaluating and negotiating to deliver continuous cost savings.
• Risk management: defining risk and contract concepts and driving risk‑reduction activities including alternative sourcing.
• Supplier management: organizing regular business reviews and rating suppliers on defined KPIs (performance, quality, cost, technology road‑map).
• New product introduction: supporting R&D and manufacturing through pilot to full‑scale production and M&A due diligence.
• Data analysis: compiling spend data by site, supplier and technology and recommending optimization.
• Technical acumen: maintaining deep understanding of fluidics commodity and evaluating alternative vendors and materials.

Basic qualifications:

• BS in Engineering, Supply Chain or a related engineering discipline.
• Prior expertise with metals commodity sourcing.
• Contracting/supply agreement experience.

Preferred qualifications:

• MS in engineering, Supply Chain or a related scientific discipline.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Experience in a biotech organization.
• Good interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Knowledge of SAP and ERP/MRP systems a plus.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Contact: [email protected] if you need more details before applying.