Job Title: Sr. Category Manager, Logistics
Location: Shanghai
Responsibilities and Scope:
The Sr. Category Manager is responsible for logistics spend for APAC region. Responsibilities include supplier scouting, selection, supplier management, price & contract negotiation and working capital management. The Sr. Category Manager will develop and execute a category strategy that supports the company’s profitable growth plans. She/He will be the primary owner of cost savings and working capital improvements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the team to deliver financial results for field, corporate and plants
- Engages key influence network to build sponsorship for change
- Supports team's decisions in the face of uncertainty
- Creates strategies to achieve long term goals across business
- Coaches team for their development, improves team capability and skillset
- Build integrity culture
- Develop logistics category strategy by category cluster, implement category strategy in sourcing decision of Logistics spend
- Optimizes and rationalize the supply base
- Supplier account management for selection of suppliers
- Manage supplier performance and organize regular business reviews with suppliers of responsibility.
- Negotiation and maintenance of contracts and supply conditions
- Insights to supply base market intelligence & dynamics, scouting new suppliers to support the business growth
- Build significant process muscle in VAVE, which will increase profitability
- Deploy a global preferred supplier strategy to improve supplier quality, delivery and cost
- Drive year-over-year improvement in logistics spend through supplier negotiation
- Drive year-over-year improvement in working capital through supplier DPO management
- Monitor and support procurement productivity improvement projects complete on schedule
- Report monthly operation result by category cluster
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain management, or related business degree. MBA is a distinct advantage
- At least 5 years’ sourcing/procurement experience and at least 5 years’ experience in logistics operation management, and 3 years’ experience in team management
- Excellent negotiation skills, being able to build a compelling case and convince others, familiar with contracting
- Experience in market investigation, purchasing strategy establishment and implementation, familiar with cost reduction methods and tools
- Good interpersonal skills to enable and manage strategic relationships
- Adaptable towards a rapidly changing environment
- Experience in working in multi-cultural teams
- Experience in working in multifunctional development teams
- Preferably experience in an innovative but also cost-driven environment
- Experience in international trade
- Honest and Integrity
- Fluent in English
- Willing to travel