Associate Manager, Category Sourcing

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.