Senior Commodity Manager - Electronics

Ontic, a global leader in the licensing and manufacturing of complex engineered parts for the aerospace and defence industries, is seeking an experienced Senior Commodity Manager to join our Global Supply Chain team. This pivotal role supports Ontic’s continued growth and success by driving strategic sourcing excellence, strengthening supplier partnerships, and ensuring supply chain resilience across our global operations.

About the Role

We’re looking for a highly experienced Senior Commodity Manager to join our Global Supply Chain team. In this critical leadership position, you’ll drive strategic sourcing, supplier management, and stakeholder alignment across multiple sites and geographies. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping long-term sourcing strategies that deliver measurable value achieving the best total cost, quality, and performance outcomes for our global business.

As a change agent and strategic leader, you’ll influence and implement global supply chain strategies, manage key supplier relationships, and lead a high-performing sourcing team to deliver excellence across all facets of procurement and supply management.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute commodity strategies that include sourcing plans, spanet analysis, supplier capability assessments, and risk management.
• Lead multi-site sourcing and negotiations to secure best-in-class agreements for assigned commodities and services.
• Build and lead a global sourcing team, coaching them to achieve critical sourcing KPIs and business goals.
• Analyse global supply spanets, cost drivers, and economic trends to identify opportunities and risks.
• Drive supplier performance and innovation, ensuring alignment with company objectives and compliance with regulatory and sustainability standards.
• Partner with Product Line and PMO teams to support sourcing transitions and program objectives.
• Oversee global supplier selection, evaluation, and performance management frameworks.
• Travel globally to evaluate supplier capabilities, strengthen relationships, and support Ontic operations (up to 20).

About You:

You’re a seasoned supply chain professional with a strategic mindset, strong leadership acumen, and global perspective. You thrive in complex, matrixed environments and excel at building relationships, leading transformation, and delivering tangible results.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field (MBA preferred).
• 15 years of progressive experience in global sourcing, procurement, or supply chain management, with at least 7 years in senior leadership roles.
• Strong background in operations, project management, finance, and strategic planning for business and product category development.
• Proven experience as a business executive with a focus on metric-driven performance and strategic execution.
• Demonstrated success in negotiating and managing complex global supplier agreements and partnerships.
• Experience in strategic sourcing of commodities, raw materials, and finished goods (preferred).
• Proven ability to deliver continuous improvement and year-over-year performance gains.
• Success in agile, matrixed environments with global stakeholder engagement.
• Skilled in team building, leadership, and management of direct and indirect reports.
• Experience in multicultural negotiations, contracting, and supplier management across geographies.
• Strong financial acumen with expertise in developing and managing budgets, forecasts, and business cases.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and influencing skills with a global mindset.
• Strategic thinker capable of driving transformation initiatives and achieving measurable results.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally (up to 20).

Benefits 

At Ontic we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this, we care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance. 

Our benefits package highlights include: 

• Up to 29 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• 10 hours paid volunteering time 
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees 
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers 

Best place to work 

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so: 

• We were ranked 9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback 
• 72.5 of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic 

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, youll enjoy a career with us!

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, youll enjoy a career with us!