Associate Manager, Category Sourcing
Shanghai, China
China Product Purchasing and Development – Category Sourcing /
Full Time /
Hybrid
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- 1. Category Strategy Development and Implementation
- Identify opportunities to optimize cost and increase perceived value to improve gross margin.
- Develop Category Sourcing Strategy as a guideline of cross functions to work out their strategy and priorities.
- Lead or coordinate cross-functional teams and suppliers to well implement strategy.
- 2. Process Excellence & Relationship Management
- Optimize sourcing process to standardize and improve ways of working internally & externally.
- To perfect Supplier Relationship Management in company level per definition of Sourcing Strategy.
- 3. Open Innovation & Supply Market Intelligence
- Dig out internal business needs and leverage suppliers’ innovation capability as an engine to support business growth.
- Close to supply market and bring supply market & industry intelligence to support business growth.
- 4. Supplier & Risk Management
- Assess supplier performance and take effective actions to improve with support from cross-functional teams.
- Continually develop suppliers in other countries to diversify current supplier base.
- With industry sensitivity to foresee potential delivery risk and cost headwind and take effective solutions to secure production & protect company profits.
Job Requirement:
- Degree:Bachelor or above;MBA is a plus.
- English level:excellent
- 5+ years of strategic or commodity sourcing experience in FMCG multi-national corporation.
- Experienced to develop Category Sourcing Strategy.
- With experience of Raw Material.
- Successfully developed or managed oversea supplier base.
- Successfully worked as a project leader to manage big projects across departments by proven project management skills and influence skills.
