Commodity Trader Resume Examples

Enthusiastic Commodity Trader with expertise in new revenue streams sales and marketing and corporate presentations. Talented in leading cross-functional project teams while maintaining positive and productive working relationships across a broad range of groups. Demonstrated ability to work within a team environment serving both internal and external customers’ requirements.

• Analyze spend in each indirect spend category to determine opportunity
• Develop and management of strategic commodity strategy and global commodity policy
• Guide the selection development and management of preferred strategic suppliers to meet cost and performance goals
• Manage the RFP process; lead negotiation and completion of contracts with preferred strategic suppliers
• Oversee the development and execution of sourcing strategies within span of control including targets timelines and resource plans
• Serve as the primary interface to Business Unit leaders to align procurement activities with BU operating priorities to achieve defined financial objectives
• Assess the current spend tools and develop enhancements in the areas of commodity coding front-end requisitioning tools and improved data integrity
• Set corporate commodity strategy for short- mid- and long-term through analysis of key cost drivers / current and future marketplace conditions

• Responsible for analysis of indirect spend categories to determine opportunity for improvements
• Established the global corporate policies within commodities and implemented them working with individual Business Units
• Determined what spend areas ÛÏE-CatalogÛ systems were appropriate for and developing systems
• Handled global preferred suppliers to control costs
• Supervised RFP’s supplier selection and long-term contracts with selected suppliers
• Tracked total spend within commodity against budgets and baselines at corporate level and by BU

Certified Commodity Trader – City, State Society of Security Analysts Inc.