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Optimize Global Supply Chains and Cost Efficiency as our Next Associate Commodity Manager!
Are you ready to make a tangible impact on global supply chains using data-driven insights and strategic sourcing? Trimble is looking for a passionate problem-solver like you to drive cost reduction, ensure continuity of supply, and build key supplier relationships in a dynamic, multinational technology environment.
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 role, you'll be at the forefront of optimizing Trimble's global supply chain networks, directly influencing key financial outcomes and securing material continuity for cutting-edge hardware products. You will have a unique dual impact, blending strategic global commodity management with advanced data analytics to design and implement innovative sourcing strategies that shape our manufacturing resilience worldwide.
Key Exciting Responsibilities:

• Drive strategic cost reduction initiatives with the supply base to achieve quarterly targets and present financial results to executive management.
• Spearhead cross-functional projects to resource or dual-source critical materials, mitigating production risks and optimizing total cost.
• Collaborate with Design Engineering and Program teams during new product introductions to implement robust global sourcing strategies.
• Act as the global data analytics champion, utilizing advanced reporting tools to evaluate supplier forecasting, material float, and buffer stock agreements.
• Cultivate high-level relationships with global suppliers while conducting executive performance reviews and scorecard cadences.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of progressive experience in purchasing, direct procurement, and commodity management across the product lifecycle.
• Advanced expertise with data tools including Excel, Google Sheets, SmartSheets, and ERP systems like Oracle or Agile.
• Proven capability in negotiating pricing, supply agreements, long-term agreements, and statements of work.
• Exceptional communication and team-building skills with a track record of presenting to multinational cross-functional groups.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering (BSEE/BSME) or Business with technical experience.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience acting as an internal super-user for analytics systems such as Cognos or DOMO.
• Background managing complex electronic or mechanical manufacturing commodities in a global environment.

Logistics:

• Location: Westminster, CO or Dayton, OH - in office 4 days per week
• Travel Requirement: 15%

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. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.
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. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.
Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."
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.
Hiring Range
$67,700.00-$93,200.00
Pay Rate Type
Salary
Bonus Eligible?
Yes
Commission Eligible?
No
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: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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."
Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.
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