Responsible for the negotiation and management of select commodities.

Responsible for meeting Global Sourcing savings targets as well as serving as an escalation path for delivery, quality, and supplier management issues. 

Ability to manage multiple complex projects and to develop supply base to meet corporate and business unit objectives. 

Evaluates and selects new suppliers along with Engineering, Quality and Regulatory to select strategic partners worldwide. 

Understands global trade, the need for constant change and identification of emerging technologies.

Strong target & result driving skill.

Geography: 

Position to be based in Shanghai, China office, supporting the Shanghai, Salzburg (Austria) and Sunnyvale (USA) Operations and R&D teams.  Domestic travel 5% to 10%, international travel possible (Europe and/or USA).

Key Objectives and tasks:

• Overall strategy and relationship with commodity, subsystem and/or tier 1 suppliers within 1 or more Commodity Categories.
• Manage multiple supplier relationships: New parts; supplier changes; yearly negotiations; pricing and payment terms.
• Define saving opportunities and lead project team to complete saving projects.
• The associate need to be responsible and  hands on deal with the Daily issue with suppliers leading to best cost, quality and delivery

Knowledgeable of the Life Science industry; supplier business condition; and global 

• supply market trends.
• Understanding & ownership of Supplier Selection Processes.
• Owns the overall Commodity spend and is responsible to secure savings in line with annual objectives.
• Works closely with Product Development on new projects to deliver new supplier relationships, technologies, or co-development solutions.

Supports operations procurement teams to deploy global sourcing strategy and help resolve parts supply or quality issues.

Skills and Specifications:

• Experience of lean manufacturing, Toyota Production Systems or continuous improvement methods desirable.
• Commercial skills and contracts composition experience.
• Strong analytical skills, use of data to drive decisions.
• Work under pressure and good time management skill
• 5+ years of Supply Management experience.
• Good negotiator and decision maker.
• Detailed technical and commercial knowledge of commodity category in either: PCBA, Cable assembly, Plastic, Power supply, Electrical Components (others considered).
• International business and multi-cultural experience.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
• Awareness of lean tools desirable, examples: 5S, Standard Work, KANBAN, Policy Deployment, Value Stream Management, Visual Management.
• Driven individual with passion for quality and manufacturing great products.
• Balance of strength to drive results, openness to coaching & ability to enlist help from others.

Bachelors degree or above in Supply Chain, Engineering or Science subject.. 

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