Commodity Manager, Wire Harness/Electronics

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries. 9/80 work schedule available for most U.S. and Canada employees Commodity Manager (Wire Harness/CCA) L3HARRIS WESCAM Division Waterdown, Ontario Primary Responsibilities  Strategic Sourcing: Define, develop and implement strategy for the assigned commodity, including management and optimization of the supplier panel. Lead the negotiations process including timelines and facilitate the decision making process. Negotiate best contract (commercial and technical package) for Procurement requirements. Ensure commercial gatekeeping during implementation. Work with NPI Engineering team during early stage of design to influence cost and lead time. Promote standardization, modularization, and upstream integration. Support the Bids & Proposal teams with specific market intelligence on supplier for future business pursuits and RFP support. Direct the Business Analyst on bid BOM evaluation, target cost, RFx, and identification of procurement risks. Drive cross-functional team to perform Supplier capacity/capability assessments. Commodity Management: Work with critical and/or challenged suppliers to improve On Time Delivery and First Pass Yield to target levels. Act as an escalation point for the Production Buyers, and manage critical supplier recovery schedules to meet organization’s demand requirements. Understand and track performance of the organization’s spend, supply market, costs, and tiers of suppliers. Conduct and evaluate competitive intelligence, market reports, trade periodicals and sales promotion materials and visit trade shows, showrooms, factories and product design events. Support development of business cases and track supplier performance and cost savings. Manage the business review process with suppliers to ensure that market trends, supplier performance and the future business needs of the sectors are aligned. Required Capabilities  Excellent communication and negotiating skills Effective at managing competing priorities Demonstrated initiative to investigate problems, develop solutions and obtain results Advanced presentation skills and proficient use of MS Excel Multi-lingual capabilities are highly preferred Able and willing to travel to global locations (expected travel about 10-20%) Desired Education and Experiences  Experience in a highly regulated industry. Aerospace & Defense is preferred Bachelor or Masters in Business Administration, Engineering or Finance Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in either Fabricated metal parts, Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS), Optical assembly or Systems / Sub-systems integration Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a manufacturing environment Solid understanding of ERP/MRP and production planning principles Working knowledge of export controls and Offsets is considered an asset PMP and/or CSCP designation is considered an asset.