The Senior Manager, Commodity Insights, Surety of Supply supports efforts to reinvent who we partner with and how we work collaboratively to drive surety over longer time horizons. Support our partners to establish cost transparency and fact-based analysis for commodity trends. Uses in-depth understanding of component pricing to provide commodity-based opportunities and lead our journey on centralized commodity tracking. You will report to the Director of Surety of Supply, Commodity Insights.
About Walmart Surety of Supply :
The Surety of Supply team accelerates and scales Walmart’s efforts to build supply resilience for key categories. We work across all business units in close collaboration with merchants and Sourcing Managers as well as teams in Private Brands, sustainability, technology, manufacturing, and beyond.
What you'll do :
- Be the expert on commodities for assigned business units and sourcing hub
- Help sourcing team he supports to understand costing and commodity impacts on the products we source
- Support the sourcing team to establish more transparent costing structures so they can better navigate and negotiate with suppliers, provide fact based levers and insights
- Support any needs from the sourcing team in areas of cost profiling, cost book, should cost, commodity
- Regular touch base with sourcing run teams
- Attend run team staff meetings to share insights
- Attend factory visits / supplier meetings as required by sourcing run teams
- Weekly, monthly, quarterly commodity insights content creation
- Support buy trips content specifically on commodity insights
- Supplier cost increase assessment and validation
- Maintain powerBI dashboards, centralized tools created for commodity and item level should cost insights
- Demo and train new tools and processes to sourcing run teams
You’ll Sweep Us off our Feet if you have….
Outstanding communication & interpersonal skillsStrong analytical and data interpretation skillsStrong problem-solving skills4+ years of experience in raw material & manufacturing or commodity analyticsExcellent relationship management and influence skillsGood retail and general business acumen