Join our Sourcing Excellence Team as a Specialist, Strategic Sourcing in Guangzhou, China. This full-time role focuses on managing source-to-pay activities, supplier negotiations, and data analysis to support business goals.
Requirements
Bachelor degree in business, supply, procurement or related field
Fluent in English
More than 3 years of procurement experience
Strong skill on Power BI and data analysis
Preferred: Tech-savvy with a strong desire to learn and a passion for developing supplier relationships
Skills & Responsibilities
Power BI and data analysis: Provide insights to category teams regarding supplier performance and ad hoc purchasing trends using strong analytical tools.
Contract negotiation: Conduct negotiations and supplier relationship management for in-scoped categories to secure price, capacity, and service levels.
Risk management: Ensure effective supply base risk management through robust contracts and monitoring of financial and operational KPIs.
Stakeholder management: Collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements and establish relationships to understand needs.
Potential transition routes: People from procurement coordinator or buyer roles may bring vendor management and negotiation skills, alongside meeting the required 3+ years of procurement experience.
Job description
Job Description:
What are we looking for?
Bachelor degree in business, supply, procurement or related field
Fluent in English
Ideally tech savvy, with a strong desire to learn.
A passion for developing strong relationships with supplier and cross functional stakeholders.
>3 years of procurement experience, with good stakeholder interaction skills Would be a great stepping stone for a high quality Procurement Operations Associate
Strong skill on Power BI and data analysis
What will be your key responsibilities?
1.Provide sourcing activities from S2P process:
Contracting to be aligned to category strategies managed by category team.
Provide the first line of escalation on issues between suppliers and the business
Conduct negotiations and supplier relationship management for in scoped categories and spend thresholds for requisitions.
Secures price, capacity & service levels in line with commitments to the business.
Ensures effective risk management of the supply base, through robust contracts and monitoring of financial and other KPls, implement corrective actions as appropriate.
Establishes & maintains relationships with key stakeholders and their teams to ensure understanding of their needs and to facilitate the appropriate level of challenge.
Complies with policies, systems & controls.
Communicates business risk & opportunity.
2.Provide support to key stakeholders:
Collaborate with business stakeholders on defining business requirements to be incorporated into SOWs.
3.Participate in providing continuous improvement:
Provide insights to category team regarding supplier performance and opportunities within ad hoc purchasing trends
Collaborate with MCS S2P managers, content team and category managers to develop optimal buying channels to transact with supply base
Identify system process improvements with systems and process for FE assessment
