Commodity Readiness Leader

Responsibilities:

• Partner with the Central Readiness team to learn and implement the readiness process within the assigned Commodity & External Suppliers.
• Develop relationships within the commodity, sites, suppliers & part family.
• Build commodity specific models of capacity at various stages of the value chain to visualize the constraints in a quantitative way.

Accountability:

• Lead teams and create accountability around action plan execution to ensure programs stay on track.
• Engage the commodity leadership team & major stakeholders in regular cadence around readiness and drive action plan execution with the Supplier Teams & the suppliers themselves to grow capacity.
• Support daily management processes & standard work for your commodity.

Communication and Improvement:

• Communicate source constraints to be incorporated in S&OP rhythms to respond to demand changes.
• Interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products, processes, or services.
• Communicate complex messages and negotiate internally and externally with others to adopt a different point of view.