Sourcing Global Commodity Leader - SMR Structures & Modularization
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The Sourcing Global Commodity Leader – Structures and Modularization is responsible for developing and executing the global commodity strategy for critical large-scale structural steel, heavy civil modules, and prefabricated assemblies supporting Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programs, including reactor building structural modules and modularized structural building sections.
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This role leads strategic sourcing initiatives across a complex global supply base to secure long-term capacity, optimize cost, mitigate supply and commercial risk, and deliver strong customer value across all SMR projects.
As a strategic individual contributor, this leader partners closely with Sales & Operations Planning, project sourcing leaders, fulfillment leaders, engineering, quality, and project teams to align supply chain strategies with demand signals, execution realities, and customer-specific modular construction requirements. The role requires deep commercial acumen, strong analytical capability, executive-level communication skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority. Success in this role depends on building global market insight, negotiating sophisticated long-term agreements, developing specialized modular fabrication yards, and translating enterprise commodity strategies into actionable plans across project execution teams.
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
· Develop and lead the global commodity strategy for SMR structures and modularization categories, with primary responsibility for heavy structural steel, modularized building assemblies, composite structures, heavy civil components, and large-scale pre-fabricated plant modules.
· Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the global supply market for heavy structural fabrication and modular construction yards, including capacity, regional capabilities, technical specialization, lifting/transportation logistics constraints, quality maturity, nuclear compliance readiness, cost competitiveness, and relevant geopolitical factors.
· Gather, analyze, and communicate market intelligence to inform strategic sourcing decisions, including industry capacity trends, raw material (steel/plate) cost drivers, modular yard financial health, regulatory and trade developments, lead-time risks, and emerging supplier opportunities.
· Assess and proactively manage risk across the commodity portfolio, including capacity limitations, geographic concentration, logistics and heavy transport challenges, commercial and contractual exposure, cross-border sourcing risk, and supplier quality and delivery performance.
· Partner closely with the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process to understand current and future demand profiles and integrate demand visibility into long-term sourcing and capacity strategies.
· Translate global demand forecasts into actionable sourcing strategies that ensure the availability of long-term modular fabrication capacity in support of business growth, project execution requirements, and customer commitments.
· Collaborate with project sourcing leaders and fulfillment leaders to gather real-time supplier and execution performance data and apply these insights to strengthen broader commodity strategies and strategic decision-making.
· Work cross-functionally with sourcing, engineering, quality, legal, finance, manufacturing, project management, and commercial teams to ensure sourcing strategies are aligned with business priorities and are practical for execution.
· Partner with project leaders to understand customer-specific technical, commercial, and schedule requirements and adjust strategic sourcing levers accordingly to optimize supply chain outcomes.
· Develop sourcing strategies that appropriately balance cost, capacity, quality, technical capability, delivery performance, risk, customer-specific needs, and total landed cost.
· Lead the negotiation and execution of complex commercial agreements,