Commodity Manager

Alliance Laundry Systems, LLC is ideally located in a beautiful, recreationally rich, and family friendly environment that offers a wealth of home purchase options that allow you to have a much better work/life balance than you may have today. Our office environment is team-based and our commercial laundry is recession resistant. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package to include 6% 401(k) Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Company-Paid Dental, Company-Paid Disability, and much more. Alliance Laundry Systems LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.

The Commodity Manager is responsible for helping to develop and implement strategic commodity strategy through analysis of current spend, processes and practices, managing projects through to completion, maintaining and monitoring assigned suppliers, procurement administration and supplier sourcing.

Position Responsibilities:

  • Primary Duties:
    • Implements cost, delivery, and quality improvement programs in the procurement of raw materials and finished components.
    • Manages supplier development, sourcing, and relationships, and manages the contract administration for procurement.
    • Accountable to drive execution and implementation of assigned project(s) & programs for Procurement and provides routine updates to the organization on the progress and issues associated with Product launches for projects assigned.
    • Accountable for ensuring that there are no unidentified technical issues from a supplier from a manufacturing capability and capacity perspective and that the supplier can meet all project or program schedules as a result of source selection.
    • Works on complex problems/projects where analysis of situation or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors and timely communication.
    • Provide leadership within Procurement to drive timely activities to enable development of new or low performing suppliers.
    • Conducts research to identify new sources, evaluate current suppliers, prepares reports and manages supplier relationships for assigned areas.
    • Evaluates current and potential suppliers for cost, quality and ability to maintain inventory levels as established by Company standards.
    • Ensures supplier relationships are conducted in an ethical and business-like manner.
    • Facilitates cross-functional work groups to select new suppliers using cost based methods.
  • Secondary Duties:
    • Keeps up to date and assesses procurement trends by maintaining affiliations with successful companies who practice effective procurement management, attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, and participating in professional associations.

Position Requirements:

  1. Knowledge/Experience:
    • Minimum of three years of experience preferably in a manufacturing environment.
  2. Skills and Abilities:
    • Highly proficient in the use of Excel, extremely strong database skills
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Strong negotiation skills
    • Proficient investigation and research skills
    • Excellent material planning and inventory management skills
    • Demonstrated cross-functional team leadership and facilitation skills.
    • Experience working with global suppliers
    • Excellent project management skills are required.
  3. Education:
    • Bachelor's Degree in business, accounting, operations management or related field required.
    • MBA, ISM or APICS certification preferred
  4. Physical Requirements
    • Position involves sitting long periods, standing, manual dexterity, stooping, bending and minimal lifting.

Alliance Laundry Systems offers a competitive salary and benefits package. Please send your resume along with salary requirements to:

Email: applyALS@alliancels.com (please include position applying for in subject line)

Mail To:
Alliance Laundry Systems LLC
Attn: HR Department
Shepard Street, PO Box 990
Ripon, WI 54971

Alliance Laundry Systems LLC is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action Employer

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