Global Commodity Management Professional

Job Location: Westminster, Colorado or Dayton, Ohio

Are you a visionary commodity management professional ready to shape the future of global technology? Join Trimble's Corporate team to lead high-impact commodity strategies that bridge the gap between innovative design and world-class manufacturing, ensuring our life-changing products reach the global market with precision and scale.

About Us

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress.

What Makes This Role Great:

In this position, you won't just manage vendors-you will be a strategic architect of Trimble's supply chain. You have the unique opportunity to influence the entire Product Life Cycle, from initial NPI design to end-of-life, while nurturing executive-level supplier relationships and driving global cost-reduction initiatives that directly impact our bottom line.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Architect Commodity Strategies: Develop and communicate a strategic vision that provides best-in-class pricing and material support flexibility across global regions.

• Champion Innovation: Partner with Product Development and NPI teams to ensure technology roadmaps converge, meeting critical time-to-market and performance requirements.

• Cultivate Strategic Alliances: Nurture high-level executive relationships with suppliers, driving performance through sophisticated scorecarding and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Optimize Global Impact: Lead complex negotiations and cost-reduction initiatives through global leverage, design optimization, and yield improvements.

• Ensure Supply Resilience: Proactively identify risks and implement creative contingency plans, including buffer stock and VMI programs, to guarantee uninterrupted continuity of supply.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven Expertise: 4+ years of progressive experience in Supply Chain and Commodity Management, supporting product lifecycles from NPI through production.

• Strategic Communicator: Ability to articulate vision and strategy to cross-functional Design and Product teams as well as executive management.

• Negotiation Powerhouse: Demonstrated history of delivering cost-reduction results through global leveraging and specification optimization.

• Foundational Knowledge: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or a business-related field preferred; however, equivalent professional experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.

• Analytical Proficiency: Expert-level skills in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with Quality methods like process capability and statistical process control.

Bonus Points For

• Professional certifications such as CPM or CPIM.

• Experience managing LCR (Local Content Requirement) transitions in accordance with cost and timing goals.

Logistics

• Location: Westminster, CO or Dayton, OH.

• Travel Requirement: 20% (10% Domestic / 10% Global).

About Your Location

We truly believe that connecting in person makes a big difference for our team. By being together in the office it helps us connect easily for quick chats, informal conversations, and all-around better teamwork. This role is a key part of that as you'll be joining us in the office at least four days a week. In this capacity, you'll work with your manager to figure out a flexible schedule that helps you make the most of your in-office time.

Our Westminster, Colorado office is nestled in the heart of the Rocky Mountain region, with a campus that is a hub of innovation with over 800 employees. We've created a space that inspires creativity, with bright open workspaces, modern labs, and excellent wellness facilities. Our commitment to sustainability is evident in everything we do, including the impressive 1.7-megawatt solar array that supports 49 EV charging stations. When you're not collaborating with our dynamic teams, you can enjoy the blue sky and beautiful surroundings, including a scenic golf course that wraps around the campus. At Trimble, we believe in a strong work-life balance, giving you the freedom to advance your career while living the best of the Colorado lifestyle.

(If based in Dayton, OH, you will join our established team in a region known for its rich history in aviation and manufacturing innovation, offering a high quality of life and a collaborative professional environment.)

Why You'll Love Working With Us

At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"-we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact. We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow. You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership.

Global Commodity Management Professional, Commodity Management, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Leadership, NPI Sourcing, Local Content Requirements, LCR, Supplier Relationship Management, Contract Negotiation.

Compensation: Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Bonus Eligible?

Commission Eligible?

Benefits: Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the 'Apply Now' button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Applications could be accepted until at least 30 days from the posting date.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values-Belong, Innovate, and Grow-we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under "Corporate Governance."

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