Commodity Leader

At Bose Corporation, we believe sound is the most powerful force on earth — and for over 60 years, we have been a company built on innovation, excellence, and independence. Privately owned, fiercely customer-focused, and driven by our values, we continue to lead industries and transform lives through sound. 

Today, Bose Corporation is entering an exciting new era. Across multiple global Business Units and Global Functions, we are shaping the future of audio technology, automotive, luxury, and premium experiences. We invite you to join us in this transformation. 

• Lead the development and implementation of global sourcing strategies and global supplier network capabilities for Plastics and Metals to achieve key business goals: Time to Market, Cost Reductions, Lead Time Reduction and Supplier Business Continuity in ramp-up and ramp-down situations
• Communicate commodity strategies across the organization, the Business Units and NPI Operations to ensure sourcing decisions and product development aligns with strategic supplier selections
• Formulate negotiation strategy to proactively drive cost reduction with suppliers in a complex, high/ low volume environment to meet strategic, operational and financial performance targets, including leveraging CIE (Continuous Improvement Engineering)
• Own end-to-end commodity management, including oversight of tiered suppliers and contract manufacturer relationships, aligned with business needs, global supply strategy, and specific commodity strategies. Proactively engage the supplier market by identifying, evaluating, pre-selecting, and negotiating with new or alternative suppliers for assigned product groups or lines of business.
• Lead and manage negotiations of tooling agreements with suppliers encompassing key program specifications & EOLs.
• Responsible for total supplier performance: measure and manage vs. key targets, compliance to agreements and implementing improvement plans to address gaps
• Lead QBRs (Quarterly Business Reviews)  and  EBR (Executive Business Reviews) with suppliers & be able to effectively communicate with executive teams. Transform multiple and complex streams of information into simple, clear and concise terms to be presented to stakeholders
• Partner with Product cost engineering to develop and maintain predictive cost models and standards for sub-assemblies and components. Enhance cost models and forward costing analysis tools. The models should include risk profiles, ranges with associated probabilities and trade-offs & market sensitivity analysis.
• Develop Total Cost of Ownership calculations.
• Establish strong partnerships with the Contract Manufacturing procurement teams & lead oversight of product supply chain from an escalation stand point  including capacity analysis, safety stock, flexibility & distribution network.
• Domestic and international travel up to 15%
• Lead market Intelligence and report on current market and economic trends, including raw materials, currency, productivity, labor inflation, tariffs, volume shifts, etc.
• Routinely perform supply risk assessments, and drive mitigation plans accordingly, including setting up and working out of secondary and/or alternative supplier routes regarding the purchasing of strategically important and critical components.

Qualifications:

• 5 -7 years of professional relative experience within a global supply chain & operations environment, preferably automotive.
• 5 years of experience in Plastics and Metals manufacturing or similar technology manufacturing environment
• Demonstrated track record in early product cost estimation, either during concept development or idea generation phase, of product development cycle.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to handle multiple competing tasks and demands
• Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers.
• Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings/specifications & Bill of Materials
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Supply Chain Management or Equivalent.

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