Sr. Commodity Buyer

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
- Negotiate contracts and agreements. Develop strategies for goods and services based on an understanding of market knowledge, business requirements and balance leveraging with competition
- Develops negotiating strategy with input from internal customers, acts as key commercial expert during negotiations, acts as primary contact for target suppliers.
- Negotiate legal and commercial terms to achieve optimal business results. Identify key contract risks and the associated mitigation strategies
- Challenge operational procedures.
- Develop the negotiations plan. Work closely with Operations and Planning to develop and refine the negotiations strategy and plans of the region
- Manage relationships across all department lines. Professionally communicate and interact with all levels of management both inside and outside of Procurement.
- Create strategic alliances with vendors. Develop and maintain long-term supply partnerships with the...