General Motors

Senior Global Commodity Manager

General Motors

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Warren • Missouri • United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Execute the vision and direction for Tier-N resilience for the assigned motors and critical minerals portfolio, leading, coaching, and engaging a team of professionals to deliver strong business outcomes.
  • Apply and maintain SMT Purchasing risk frameworks for your portfolio, including risk identification, evaluation, and prioritization, ensuring timely mitigation and accurate reporting within established governance.
  • Manage strategic relationships with central resilience, enterprise risk management, and other key stakeholders to ensure CT priorities for your portfolio are reflected in resilience data, tools, and technology roadmaps.
  • Define and track key performance metrics for Tier-N planning, design, and supplier execution within your scope; use insights to recommend actions and inform leadership decisions and trade-offs.
  • Oversee Tier-N CT strategies for your portfolio, including component timing, cross-program read-across, escalation pathways, and supplier audit inputs to proactively manage risk.
  • Implement and continuously improve standardized, scalable processes that drive consistency across your team, embedding lessons learned and corrective actions into day-to-day operating mechanisms.
  • Provide clear updates to senior leadership on resilience and continuity status for your portfolio, including goals, plans, progress, risk/impact analysis, and recommended actions.
  • Develop and manage supplier relationships at a senior level to understand their risk management strategies, influence their investments in resilience, and ensure alignment with GM’s expectations.
  • Support and deploy innovative supply chain risk management solutions within your area, contributing to business cases, aligning cross-functional partners, and leading pilots and implementation for your commodities.
  • Develop talent and organizational capability, including day-to-day coaching, performance management, and career development for team members, ensuring alignment with GM values and behaviors.

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree required (or equivalent related experience)
  • Experience: 10+ years of experience in global purchasing or procurement. (any internship or co-op experience will not be considered)
  • Proven track record of people leadership experience directly leading teams with a minimum of 4-5 people, driving results, and personal accountability with oneself and team
  • Functional Skills: Proven negotiation, supplier management, and analytical skills applied to complex, high-impact business decisions.
  • Demonstrated success operating in a multi-stakeholder environment, setting expectations, aligning stakeholders, and following through on commitments.
  • Strong project/program management capability, driving initiatives to completion under tight deadlines and competing priorities.
  • Leadership & Behavioral Skills: Strong verbal and written communication, with the ability to distill complex issues into clear, concise messages for diverse audiences.
  • Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with a track record of leading and influencing cross-functional and global teams.
  • High comfort with ambiguity and autonomy, making sound decisions with incomplete information and appropriate escalation.
  • Strong drive for results and change leadership, effectively leading others through challenges to deliver measurable outcomes.
  • Demonstrated continuous improvement and innovation mindset, consistently challenging and improving processes within their scope.
  • Proven people leadership skills, including performance management, coaching, feedback, and talent development.
  • Travel: Ability to travel 10–20% of the time, domestically and internationally.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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