Commodity Specialist
- Req. Number: R25986
- Posted Date: 12/19/2024
- Address: 3900 Dallas Pkwy
- City, State: Plano, TX
- Postal Code: 75093
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Role Summary:
The Commodity Specialist - Facilities Maintenance is responsible for creating and executing the strategy for Facilities Maintenance, negotiate with current and new suppliers to achieve the best contractual conditions relative to pricing, payment terms, quality, warranty and other Key Performance Indicators. The Commodity Specialist – Facilities Maintenance will utilize standard work and industry related policies to customize a process to guide internal stakeholders through early engagement of the end-to-end RFx process.The individual will work with a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other partners to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develop sourcing strategies, conduct RFx events, assist in negotiating contracts, support spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers, and manage preferred supplier relationships. The ideal candidate will stay informed of macroeconomic/industry trends related to materials and labor that will influence their strategy.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Supports all Cinemark US sites in Facilities and Capex commodity purchasing activities.
- Maintains and negotiate various contracts, including Master Service Agreements, Long Term Agreements, Supply Agreements, etc.
- Lead Contract compliance initiatives to ensure 100% coverage across category
- Develops Cost Reduction Initiatives to meet established KPIs
- Works with Category Management and internal stakeholders to develop commodity strategy for preferred supplier spend, improving key supplier relations focused on Quality, Logistics, Cost and Innovation.
- Works with Category Management and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve pay terms or resolve pay term discrepancies contractually and systematically.
- Drive standard work and create a robust RFx process to foster early internal stakeholder engagement
- Support requestors in establishing RFx and determining supplier selection to ensure standard terms are met or negotiated
- Perform New Supplier set up to include compliance activities, onboarding and supplier management
- Conduct Quarterly Business Reviews with key suppliers to assess performance against critical KPIs
- Perform monthly spend analytics to assess actuals to target and generate ideas to close the gap.
- Perform other relevant duties as assigned.
What You Will Need to Have:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field
- Experience: Minimum 3 years working on the assigned category of spend.
- Strong project management
- Organizational skillsExperience with contract negotiation
