Commodity Manager (Energy)

Join a manufacturing leader with over 50 years of excellence, where every role contributes to building reliable transportation solutions that people depend on everyday across the United States and Canada. At ENC, we prioritize safety, quality, innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth – creating vehicles our teams can take pride in. Founded in 1975, ENC (ElDorado National – California) is a leading U.S. transportation manufacturer specializing in design, engineering, and end-to-end production of heavy-duty buses, shuttles, and cargo vehicles through a custom-build, mixed-model assembly process. Each vehicle is produced in our purpose-built facility in Riverside, California supporting public agencies and private transportation providers nationwide. We offer one of the industry’s widest portfolios of power options, including 100% battery-electric, diesel-electric hybrid, CNG, and clean diesel. ENC is committed to revitalizing American manufacturing through innovation, customer focus, and the delivery of high-quality vehicles that keep communities connected, supported, and moving forward. Commodity Manager (Energy) Location: Riverside, CA Salary Range: $121,100 - $140,520 Position Summary The Commodity Manager(Energy) reports to the Director of Strategic Sourcing and owns the end-to-end strategy, sourcing, commercial performance, supplier portfolio, and risk profile for assigned HV Battery commodities for application in BESS and EV across the product lifecycle. This role converts business and product roadmaps into executable category strategies; leads make-versus-buy decisions, Sourcing Council governance, competitive sourcing, negotiations, contracting, and supplier quarterly business reviews; and delivers measurable cost, cash, quality, delivery, capacity, innovation, and resilience outcomes. The Commodity Manager leads cross-functional work with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, Program Management, Planning, Legal, and suppliers to support new product introduction, stable production, and long-term enterprise value. Key Responsibilities This list of essential duties is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties, as management may deem necessary from time to time. The team member must be able to perform each essential job duty identified below satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties of this position unless doing so would create an undue hardship. Own and execute a multi-year commodity strategy aligned with product, technology, operations, sustainability, financial, and regional roadmaps; define preferred suppliers, sourcing waves, negotiation levers, and value targets. Create fact-based spend and market intelligence covering demand, cost drivers, supply-demand dynamics, capacity, technology shifts, raw-material indices, regulatory trends, geographic exposure, and supplier financial health. Lead make-versus-buy analyses with Operations, Engineering, and Finance, comparing internal investment and capacity, fixed and variable cost, quality, intellectual property, speed, scalability, and continuity risk; document assumptions, sensitivities, recommendations, approvals, and post-decision results. Prepare and lead Sourcing Council reviews with complete sourcing cases, alternatives, weighted supplier evaluations, total-cost economics, risks, recommendation, implementation plan, and approval record; do not place business before required cross-functional and delegated-authority approvals are complete. Lead requests for information, quotation, and proposal; supplier due diligence; technical and commercial evaluation; negotiation; nomination; contracting; and transition using transparent requirements and competitive tension. Apply total cost of ownership, should-cost and clean-sheet models, cost breakdown analysis, benchmarking, index-based pricing, design-to-value, and value analysis/value engineering to ide…

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