Commodity Manager - Electrical Components

The role

The Commodity Manager develops and executes commodity strategies to support manufacturing, supply chain, and operational goals. This role manages assigned suppliers, pricing, contracts, performance, and risk for electrical components.

What you will do

• Develop and execute commodity strategies for cost, quality, delivery, inventory, and business continuity.
• Manage supplier relationships including selection, negotiations, performance reviews, and development.
• Lead sourcing, cost reduction, supplier consolidation, dual sourcing, and supply risk mitigation.
• Partner with Procurement, Planning, Operations, Quality, Engineering, and Finance.
• Analyze supplier capacity, lead times, pricing, market trends, demand signals, and supply risks.
• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, lead times, minimum order quantities, and supply agreements.
• Support supplier issue resolution related to defects, delivery delays, and nonconformance.
• Maintain accurate supplier, pricing, contract, and commodity data in systems.
• Perform additional duties as assigned to support the team and organization.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in commodity management, strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or supplier management in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience managing supplier negotiations, supplier performance, sourcing strategies, and cost reduction initiatives.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing supply chains, supplier lead times, material planning, cost drivers, and production support.
• Ability to make practical sourcing and supplier decisions within defined scope without relying on Engineering for every implementation detail.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience with electrical components, switchgear components, controls, relays, transformers, busway, copper, sheet metal, fabricated parts, or related power distribution materials.
• Experience in electrical equipment, power distribution, switchgear, industrial manufacturing, or engineered-to-order manufacturing.
• Experience with supplier development and localization.
• Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems, Microsoft Excel, and supplier performance reporting tools.
• Demonstrated career ambition with a track record of growth and increasing responsibility.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package

About the company

IEM builds electrical distribution systems and delivers solutions for complex power needs. The company has been operating for 75 years.