Senior Commodity Specialist

Boeing Boeing · Aerospace · Dallas, TX

This role is for a Senior Commodity Specialist at Boeing, focusing on managing supplier relationships, performance, and supply chain strategies. It involves leading business relationships, monitoring quality and delivery, developing mitigation plans, and analyzing processes for improvement. The role requires significant experience in cross-functional team collaboration, supplier interaction, and project leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Leads supplier/subcontractor business relationships, in-service requirements and performance to contractual obligations and expectations.
  2. Manages and monitors supplier quality, delivery and financial performance.
  3. Leads the development of mitigations plans to avoid risk and resolve issues impacting customers and programs.
  4. Develops and implements supplier base plans to support customer, program and commodity strategies.
  5. Analyzes supplier and business processes and procedures to identify improvement opportunities and incorporate into contracting strategies.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience working with and partnering with cross-functional teams on projects and initiatives
  • 5+ years of experience interacting with suppliers, conducting supply chain management operational performance reviews, and suppliers
  • 3+ years of demonstrated project leadership experience, including identifying key stakeholder project specific requirements and scope, then building and managing project plans and teams

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • 1+ years of experience working with strategic sourcing objectives including supply base optimization, enterprise leveraging, supplier performance improvement and business considerations to develop the company's supplier base