Materials Project Manager - San Diego

Overview:

We have been driving innovation in analytical instrumentation for over 60 years now. Today, more than 8,500 employees distributed across 90 locations around the world continue to delight our customers with innovative solutions.

Divisions within BNANO include Bruker AXS, Bruker Nano Analytics, Bruker Nano Surfaces and Metrology, Fluorescence Microscopy, and Canopy.

In the realm of Sustaining Engineering, you'll lead supply chain enhancements, resolve end of life issues, and maintain optimal performance for production test equipment. If you're ready to make your mark in electrical manufacturing within the Bruker AFM family, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

The Commodity Manager is responsible for the development, execution, and management of commodity strategies along with the associated global sourcing for commodities, goods and services to support our manufacturing and business operations. This position supervises a team of buyers to identify, qualify and manage a global supply base to provide the team’s assigned commodities.

Responsibilities:

• Forecasts and communicates engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers. Provides input to outsourcing decisions by performing make versus buy analysis. Coordinates demand signals through MRP to minimize inventory exposure.
• Coordinates and provides product development process deliverables through matrix management of buyers. Collaborates with engineering team to interpret engineering requirements.
• Under some supervision, creates, releases and updates new project materials strategy.
• Sourcing: Assists in supplier price and delivery negotiations; under direct supervision may negotiate contracts as necessary. Utilizes the preferred supplier selection and assessment process when selecting suppliers. Completes supplier risk assessment on critical and unique parts. Monitors supplier performance (delivery, quality, cost).
• Materials: Coordinates activities around source selection, specification creation and price negotiation with appropriate team members.
• Executes commercialization and transition plans.
• Meets cost objectives and resolves quality issues. Generates and publishes Key Process Indicators. Tracks total landed costs targets.
• Works with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long-lead parts and inspection requirements. Assists in developing supplier and commodity road maps to engineering. Utilizes value analysis on build-to-print components in support of Should Cost analysis.
• Actively mediates and partners with quality and engineering teams to resolve supplier quality issues for assigned product groups. Escalate issues to Commodity Managers when necessary.

• Has knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market

• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience; may lead small projects with manageable risks and resource requirements

• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspective on existing solutions; exercises judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information

• Impacts a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams; works within broad guidelines and policies

• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, engineering, business, or related field (Engineering strongly

• 7-10 years work experience in purchasing or supply chain
• Minimum of 5 years of strategic supplier sourcing analyses and execution
• APICS or CPM Certification strongly preferred
• Strong working proficiency with Microsoft Office, including expert level functionality with Excel
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working within and between ERP systems (SAP preferred), and

• Knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; is aware of the competition and

• Strong technical and business knowledge of, and experience in buying and sourcing in the segment

served (i.e., electrical commodities / machined parts, sheet metal, mechanical assemblies, optical components

• Broad understanding of supply management and the commodities assigned; looked to as the “go-to

• Highly motivated and self-driven with a focus on successfully delivering results for the team and

meeting overall company goals. Demonstrated capacity acting as a resource for colleagues with less

• Extremely organized and detail-oriented with the ability to manage large amounts of data from

• Demonstrated initiative and capability to manage multiple tasks independently with little direct

• Strong interpersonal, persuasion, influencing and collaboration skills required, working to build

consensus with the ability to lead cross-business unit and cross-functional teams to create and execute

• Expert negotiation skills: ability to negotiate attractive business terms (e.g., pricing, SOI/VMI) with

• Demonstrates flexibility and the ability to multi-task and balance competing priorities constantly and

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to anticipate and identify issues or

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Ability to create written communication that is

properly structured providing clear, concise messages that draw well supported conclusions. Verbal

• Demonstrates in-depth understanding of the financial aspects of Supply Chain operations and

• Ability to anticipate, recognize and solve complex supply problems; takes a new perspective on

• Agility to work within broad guidelines and policies in order to impact a range of customer, operational, project or service activities within own team and other related teams.

Full-time employees may also be eligible for a performance-related incentive in addition to a full range of benefits including 401(k) with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, medical and dental plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, employee assistance program and paid time off including vacation, sick time and holidays, and more.

Bruker is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

Certain positions at Bruker require compliance with export control laws and as a result, all interviewed candidates for all positions will be screened pre-interview to determine their eligibility in light of export control restrictions.

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