Manager, Category Sourcing

Manager, Category Sourcing

Shanghai, China

China Product Purchasing and Development – Category Sourcing / Full Time / On-site

Job Description

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.
• 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 per sourcing strategy.
• 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 by leverage support from cross functional teams.
• Continually develop supplier base in other countries and draft Category Sourcing Strategy accordingly for implementation.