Commodity Manager - Blades & Vanes

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Warwickshire

Warwick

Industrial Turbine Company (UK) Limited

Gas Services

Distributed

Full-time

Experienced Professional

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Commodity Manager within our Blades & Vanes team, you will play a critical role in supporting the continued growth of Siemens Energy's Small Gas Turbine business. Focusing on hot blades and vanes coatings, your day will involve working closely with global suppliers, engineering teams, and operational stakeholders to ensure a resilient, high-performing, and cost-effective supply chain.

You'll lead strategic sourcing activities, manage key supplier relationships, negotiate complex commercial agreements, and support risk mitigation initiatives across a technically demanding commodity area. Working in a global environment, you will collaborate across multiple functions to help secure supply continuity and drive long term business performance.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Develop and implement global sourcing strategies for hot blades and vanes coatings to support business growth, supply continuity, and cost competitiveness.
• Lead supplier identification, qualification, and onboarding activities to strengthen and de risk the global supply chain.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships, driving performance improvements, cost optimisation, and operational excellence through regular business reviews.
• Lead negotiations for complex supply agreements, commercial terms, and pricing structures while ensuring compliance with company standards and contractual obligations.
• Proactively identify and mitigate supply chain risks including capacity constraints, geopolitical impacts, and material volatility.
• Conduct market analysis, spend reviews, and total cost of ownership (TCO) assessments to identify cost reduction and value engineering opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain teams to support product development, supplier capability, and manufacturing optimisation initiatives.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex commercial and operational supplier challenges.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience within strategic sourcing, commodity management, or procurement in a technical manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Strong experience managing supplier relationships, sourcing strategies, and complex commercial negotiations.
• Knowledge or experience within coatings, blades & vanes, aerospace, power generation, or high temperature manufacturing processes would be highly advantageous.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with experience conducting spend analysis and cost modelling activities.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills within cross functional and global teams.
• Experience working within international supply chains and managing supply chain risk mitigation activities.
• Professional certifications such as CPSM or CPIM would be advantageous.
• Strong commercial acumen combined with a collaborative and proactive mindset.

About the Team

Our Gas Services division offers low emission power generation through service and decarbonization. We bring together gas turbines, steam turbines, generators, and digital service solutions under one roof. Through modernization, digitalization, and innovative service offerings, we help customers worldwide improve reliability, efficiency, and sustainability across their operations.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With 100,000 dedicated employees across more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably.

Our technologies help drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150 year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Benefits

• 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served
• Access to a flexible benefits portal including private medical cover, cycle to work schemes, and more
• Opportunities for career development and continuous learning
• Exposure to global supplier networks and strategic sourcing initiatives
• The opportunity to support cutting edge gas turbine technology and critical energy infrastructure