Job Title: Commodities Senior Manager

Location: Remote/Hybrid - USA

Reports to: Customer Success Senior Director

Department Name: Account Management

Job Types: Full Time, Exempt

Position Summary

The Commodities Senior Manager is responsible for the relationships with the commodity buying entities that meets both the customers and company operational and financial objectives. This includes project management, sourcing, sales support activities, coaching and development.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities

• Support the Customer Success Senior Director & team to ensure Rubicon provides excellent customer service to both our clients and our partners.
• Sourcing new and existing recycling opportunities.
• Reconcile journal entries and manage adjustments with proper documentation and certify in CieTrade.
• Post journal entries for logistics expense and vendor invoices.
• Perform detailed, analytical review of accounts.
• Prepare and assist with the review of financial statements for recycling customers.
• Data entry of monthly pricing updates in CieTrade.
• Managing Sales Orders/Purchase Orders in CieTrade.
• Work with outlets to correct pricing errors.
• Work with new outlets to collect and submit paperwork for set-up.
• Collect historical data from outlets and summarize the data.
• Create & distribute Letters of Authorization, Award Letters and Cancellation Letters.
• Collaborate with Operations, Finance, IT to bridge portal adoption & digitization.
• This role oversees a team of 4+ team members that manages logistics and transactional tasks associated with these trades.
• Fulfill hiring needs for the Recycle and Reuse department, provide or arrange for training for new team members.
• Plan work assignments, evaluate work performed and provide direction and decisions in handling procedural and technical problems.
• Monitor work outcomes and provide metrics data for management.
• Ensure appropriate oversight documentation is developed, maintained, updated and accessible.
• Ability to travel and/or work onsite as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned or apparent.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This job has supervisory responsibilities.

Experience & Qualifications:

• High school diploma required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of work experience in waste and recycling, supply chain analytics or a data-driven operations role.
• Ability to critically analyze quotes/services and negotiate profitable pricing.
• Experience identifying and executing process improvement.
• Strong leadership and communication skills with the ability to work with a diverse team and to independently advance projects.
• Extensive experience in resolving complex on-holds issues involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Dispute Resolution skills.
• Strong knowledge of PowerBI and MS Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.
• Extensive Technical Skills in Cietrade, AS/400, CRM/EIS, Oracle, Pricing Tools, & Advanced Microsoft Office Tools (V-Lookups, Pivot Tables, Spreadsheets).
• Knowledge of month-end closing, year-end close, reconciliations, cash flow and FP&A.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High degree of accuracy and ability to prioritize.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to supervise, coach, mentor, train, and evaluate work results.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• A strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
• A proactive, can-do attitude with a willingness to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion.
• Travel and/or onsite work will be on an as needed basis

Physical Demands and Working Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• While performing the duties of this job in a home office setting, the employee is regularly required to work on a computer for extended periods of time.
• Frequent use of a computer requires fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
• Ability to sit for extended periods while working from home or a designated workspace.
• Ability to perform tasks that require sustained attention and focus.
• Occasional lifting of materials up to 25 pounds.
• Travel to attend team meetings may be required.
• To facilitate working from home, and as a requirement for this role, the employee must provide reliable internet connection with sufficient bandwidth to execute all job functions and technology setup conducive to remote work. The company laptop will be provided.
• A quiet, distraction-free workspace is required for maintaining productivity.
• Collaboration with team members may occur through virtual meetings and communication platforms.

About Rubicon

Rubicon is a digital marketplace for waste and recycling, and provider of innovative software-based solutions to businesses and governments. Rubicon has created a new industry standard by using technology to drive environmental innovation. The company helps turn businesses into more sustainable enterprises, and neighborhoods into greener and smarter places to live and work. Rubicon helps its partners find economic value in their waste streams and confidently execute on their sustainability goals.

Rubicon is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We also maintain a Drug-Free Workplace.

Rubicon is committed to sustainability and will rely on all employees to serve as an advocate for Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) both internally and externally to help grow the Company’s ESG objectives.

• Environment: Contribute, measurably, to Rubicon’s carbon reduction goal and circular economy efforts
• Social: Support Rubicon’s efforts to cultivate/promote racial and gender equity
• Governance: Advance Rubicon’s commitment to best-in-class governance practices