Commodity & Supply Chain Manager ( Hybrid- 3 days a week)- Austin, TX

• Build and maintain market, price, capacity, allocation, and lead-time views across categories such as copper, aluminum, steel, transformers, switchgear, generators, cooling equipment, semiconductors, and technology hardware.
• Develop should-cost models, cost-driver analyses, buy-versus-hedge scenarios, and reusable sourcing plays before commercial commitments are made.
• Translate market and supplier signals into clear hedge, lock, source, qualification, and escalation recommendations.
• Use licensed market sources, supplier engagement, and client purchase-order and quotation history to create defensible decision baselines.
• Use predictive analytics and machine-learning techniques for demand forecasting, price and lead-time scenarios, supplier-risk sensing, anomaly detection, and early-warning indicators.
• Design AI-supported decision workflows with transparent assumptions, source traceability, confidence thresholds, and human approval for material sourcing and commercial decisions.

• Assess supplier capability, capacity, allocation position, quality, and performance.
• Support supplier qualification, competitive sourcing, negotiation strategy, capacity commitments, factory acceptance, and delivery adherence.
• Build supplier scorecards and structured relationship-management practices for critical vendors.
• Help clients secure priority and capacity ahead of the build schedules that depend on them.

• 25% — Commodity intelligence, and AI-enabled decision support: 6+ years of experience in commodity management, supplier relationship, strategic sourcing, supply-chain planning, procurement transformation, operations consulting, or a related field, with deep capability in should-cost modeling, cost-driver analysis, supplier economics, negotiation strategy, competitive sourcing, and buy-versus-hedge decisions. Must be able to combine incomplete market, quotation, supplier, and transaction data into defensible recommendations with explicit assumptions, confidence, and risk.
• 20% — Supplier assurance and commercial execution: Demonstrated experience assessing supplier capability, capacity, allocation position, quality, and performance; leading or supporting qualification, scorecards, competitive events, commercial negotiations, capacity commitments, factory acceptance, and delivery-performance management.
• 20% — Supply continuity and demand–supply planning: Proven ability to identify and mitigate single-source, geographic, tariff, logistics, specification, quality, and qualification exposure; develop dual-source, alternate-supplier, buffer, and contingency strategies; and connect forecasts, build waves, order timing, supplier capacity, and schedule-critical milestones.
• 15% — Client consultancy and change enablement: Demonstrated success advising cross-functional and executive stakeholders in global, client-facing environments. Must be able to facilitate decisions, clarify roles and escalation paths, translate complex analysis into executive choices, establish operating rhythms and measures, create playbooks, train users, and transfer a sustainable capability to client teams.
• 10% — Business development and project delivery: Experience shaping proposals, statements of work, estimates, and RFP responses; translating scope into workplans, milestones, stakeholder inputs, and measurable outcomes; and maintaining delivery quality, commercial discipline, risk escalation, and client trust.
• Analytics and enterprise tools: Working knowledge of SQL, Python, and Excel modeling; SAP Ariba, Coupa, or SAP SCM 09 and Google collaboration tools.

• Professional capabilities and credentials: Strong facilitation, communication, storytelling, analytical, Strong negotiation, and relationship-management skills. Supply-chain analytics, cloud AI

• Education and industry context:

Indigo Slate is a full-service human experience company. We are a digital organization backed by a global engineering leader, and we’re dedicated to helping clients build transformative experiences from start to finish. We create smart experiences that deliver powerful results through a profound intersection of marketing, technology, business, and creative. We understand that brands are no longer judged through their advertising, but through each touchpoint, both internal and external, building strength with every experience.

At Indigo Slate, we harness a mix of skills unique in our industry—equal parts strategic consultancy, creative agency, and technology thought leadership—to build and run some of the best experiences on the planet.