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Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity-driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.\nThe Global Commodity Specialist provides operational and day-to-day support for assigned commodity categories within Ciena's global supply chain organization. This role is responsible for supporting supplier management activities, improving supply continuity, maintaining commodity data accuracy, enabling procurement compliance, and driving effective execution across supplier-facing processes.\nThe successful candidate will act as a key liaison between suppliers and internal stakeholders including Commodity Management, Planning, NPI, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Finance, and Operations. 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process approved cost changes, and ensure alignment with contractual agreements and procurement policies.\nCoordinate RFQs for new business opportunities, engineering changes, dual-source initiatives, and cost reduction projects.\nConsolidate supplier quotations, perform preliminary commercial analysis, and support sourcing recommendations.\nSupport the preparation of supplier business reviews, scorecards, KPI dashboards, delivery performance metrics, cost analysis, capacity assessments, and risk evaluations.\nMonitor supplier contract compliance, pricing agreements, service levels, delivery commitments, and sourcing governance requirements.\nSupport execution of commodity strategies by maintaining supplier profiles, commodity dashboards, spend reports, and market intelligence.\nAssist with supplier risk assessments, sourcing projects, engineering changes, and New Product Introduction (NPI) activities.\nIdentify opportunities for process improvement, automation, digitalization, and operational efficiency across procurement and supplier management processes.\nParticipate in cross-functional continuous improvement and transformation initiatives.\nThe Must Haves:\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Operations Management, or a related field.\nExperience: 3+ years of experience in supply chain, procurement, sourcing, commodity management, supplier management, or related functions.\nExperience supporting global suppliers within a high-technology manufacturing environment.\nExperience working within cross-functional and global organizations.\nDemonstrated experience managing supply shortages, supplier engagement, and delivery performance challenges.\nKnowledge of RFQ processes, quotation analysis, procurement operations, and supplier management activities.\nStrong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.\nProficiency with Microsoft Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, and 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Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. 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