Global Commodity Manager - EMEA Indirect

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Adapts to change quickly, is open to new ideas, takes on new responsibilities, handles pressure, adjusts plans to meet changing needs, direction and new challenges.
• Understands and exhibits a working knowledge of own duties and responsibilities, has necessary job, product and customer knowledge, has necessary technical skills, understands company mission/values, keeps job knowledge current, is in command of critical issues.
• Targets and achieves results, sets challenging goals, prioritizes tasks, overcomes obstacles, accepts accountability, sets team standards and responsibilities, provides leadership/motivation.
• Meets all team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, shares knowledge, helps co-workers to meet goals, makes the most of individual strengths, welcomes newcomers, promotes a team atmosphere, and actively seeks out perspectives different from your own to get to the best solutions.
• Has broad expertise or unique knowledge.
• Uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals.
• Applies technical skills to resolve complex technical issues.
• Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.
• Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Interacts with internal and external contacts at all levels of the organization to resolve significant issues.  Proficiency in French or German language is preferred.
• Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups.
• Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments.
• May supervise the activities of others.
• Develops methods and techniques based on strategic project objectives.
• Plans, develops and manages key projects, business process or strategic objectives.
• Impacts short-term financial/operational results and on-going relationships with customers.
• Typically requires a minimum of 10 or more years of related experience.
• Multilingual skills required: English
• Desirable language skill:  French, German, Hungarian, Italian
• Bachelor or Master Degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering or relevant field is preferred.