Regional Commodity Manager, Service Parts Logistics

Overview:
Want to join a world-class global procurement organization where you can drive change while building a long-term career? Dell’s procurement organization offers the opportunity to learn industry leading skills through our in-house training programs and top of the line career development courses. Recognized for our world-class processes, as a member of the Worldwide Procurement team you will have an opportunity to support Dell’s transformation strategy, develop your career, and partner with a diverse team of talented procurement experts.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Senior Advisor, Commodity Management on our Commodity Management Team in Austin, Texas.

What you’ll achieve

You will be part of the Global Freight, Logistics and Trade (GFLT) procurement organization and work as a Regional Commodity Manager, reporting to the Procurement Director, responsible for regional execution of our global procurement strategy for Services Logistics.

You will:

• Deliver cost improvement through the execution of regional sourcing plans and managing RFI/P, as appropriate, via e-procurement tools (Keelvar)

• Proactively manage regional contractual expiry and compliance tied to the global category strategy

• Enable the implementation of our global procurement strategy for Service Logistics in your region by driving alignment across the procurement and regional stakeholder/supply base

• Remain abreast of procurement trends and new developments in the market-space for assigned categories and providing these regional insights in the development of future category strategies

• Leverage analytics to identify spend trends and outliers and eliminate any un-necessary leakage

Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain or related field

• 5+ years of procurement experience as a category manager or similar role or 2+ years of procurement experience as a category manager with MBA or post graduate degree

• Able to leverage advanced negotiation techniques to progress the sustainable achievement of cost, contractual and service level goals

• Strong analytical capabilities including report development and analysis (Power BI) as well as making data-driven recommendations and decisions

• Strong presentation and persuasion skills with an ability to clearly communicate across all levels of the organization

Desirable Requirements:

• Able to storyboard concisely, articulate key messaging clearly and deliver effectively to enable influence and buy in to desired outcome

• Strong influencing skills and ability to build lasting relationships internally & externally and influence across multiple layers of the organization