Senior Purchasing Manager-Steeling &Tooling (Famous US Auto. Parts Company)
上海协程商务信息咨询有限公司
- 公司规模：少于50人
- 公司性质：合资(非欧美)
- 公司行业：专业服务(咨询、人力资源、财会)
职位信息
- 发布日期：2012-09-07
- 工作地点：上海
- 招聘人数：1
- 工作经验：五年以上
- 学历要求：本科
- 语言要求：英语良好
普通话良好 - 职位类别：采购经理
职位描述
Reports to Purchasing Director - China
Role purpose:
- To identify potential suppliers, select suppliers and negotiate long-term procurement contracts.
- To monitor supplier performance to ensure continuous supply.
- At the commencement of manufacturing, to consider alternative suppliers and improve the supplier base to ensure Company remains competitive in China.
- To understand, manage and communicate risks associated with the establishment a new supplier base.
- To identify purchasing opportunities for the global business.
- To recruit, develop, up-skill and support people within the purchasing team.
Procurement Strategy:
- Formulate strategy for the procurement of products and commodities in line with broader business strategy, e.g. low cost country sourcing
- Develop 3 year longer term purchasing strategy
- Develop a detailed 12 month purchasing plan and communicate progress against this plan
- Through extensive search, identify, assess and select capable suppliers
- Determine products and commodities that are conducive to low cost sourcing
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of product costs and associated cost breakdowns
- Match supplier capability to Company purchasing requirements
- Play a key role in implementing purchasing plan for commodities,
- leveraging opportunities with suppliers to reduce costs
Establish Sustainable Purchasing Function:
- Establish a team of people with the right cultural fit for the Company China
- Develop purchasing systems and processes to support quantitative and accountable decision making processes
- Set up appropriate relationships with suppliers
- Work with Plant GMs and Plant Management teams on local subtleties regarding pricing and service considerations
Financial Management:
- Ensure cost negotiations are managed and approved by the Purchasing team
- Manage any risk associated with additional input into the negotiation process
- Develop payments plans to optimise contractual payment terms
- Manage creditor expectations
- Develop and implement cost reduction initiatives
- Undertake financial modelling to assess purchasing / supplier alternatives, e.g. low cost country sourcing
- Support buyers in meeting new program budgets by identifying costs / products that align with targets
- Verify supplier cost changes and challenge / justify prior to approval
- Determine leveraging opportunities in order to minimise impact of cost increases
- Disseminate comprehensive cost information to all reports and gather team input
- Prepare and monitor monthly financial reports
- Ensure adherence to the business' financial systems & processes
People Management & Development:
- Develop the purchasing team to operate as a financial business unit
- Build purchasing team capability
- Ensure all people have objectives and performance plans in place
- Ensure the use of an effective performance management and tracking system
- Provide growth opportunities and ensure the development of a sound pool of people for future succession
- Ensure competency gaps within the purchasing team are promptly addressed
- Ensure effective resource management and optimisation across the purchasing team
- Ensure strong communication of direction, progress, initiatives and potential issues
- Ensure purchasing team adhere to compliance procedures and minimise financial risk.
Supplier Relationship Management:
- Handle supplier issues escalated by buyers
- Sponsor proactive discussions and negotiations with suppliers
- Interprets broad supplier capabilities and attributes
- Ensure the business understands who the key suppliers are and what their capabilities are
- Proactively anticipate supplier issues and takes action to address these / manage repercussions
- Manage supplier crises to ensure supply continuity
- Determine impact on suppliers of awarding / removing business
- Identify gaps in supplier performance and work in collaboration with supplier development to rectify this
- Provide supplier feedback
- Build effective networks that prove valuable to the business from a local and global perspective
- Ensure a process is in place for the proactive escalation of significant supplier issues
Business Partnering:
- Act as a trusted business advisor to the program teams regarding purchasing issues
- Act as a trusted business partner to Managers across the Company China
- Advise, coach and mentor on cost, supplier development and quality systems related issues
- Attend design reviews, provide input regarding pricing and product sourcing implications
- Provide support to the business regarding business case preparation
Business Optimization:
- Collaborate with Program teams to optimise program purchase costs during the product development cycle, e.g., design change timelines / cost, tooling timelines/ cost
- Manage supplier contracts to ensure the long-term continuous supply of products / services to minimise risk of price changes during term of supply
- Leverage global supplier relationships
- Advise team on risk management strategies including impact and likelihood of risks
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- University education of Engineering related course, preferably majoring in Industrial or Mechanical with degrees of BS or above.
- About 5 years related experience preferably in automotive industry.
- Strong negotiation skills; Good oral and written skills both in Mandarin and English and inter-personal skills.
- Good knowledge in PC, preferably in ERP etc.
- Result oriented. Good interpersonal relations to effectively interact with internal and external customers and suppliers.
- Travel availability and work schedule flexibility.
Role purpose:
- To identify potential suppliers, select suppliers and negotiate long-term procurement contracts.
- To monitor supplier performance to ensure continuous supply.
- At the commencement of manufacturing, to consider alternative suppliers and improve the supplier base to ensure Company remains competitive in China.
- To understand, manage and communicate risks associated with the establishment a new supplier base.
- To identify purchasing opportunities for the global business.
- To recruit, develop, up-skill and support people within the purchasing team.
Procurement Strategy:
- Formulate strategy for the procurement of products and commodities in line with broader business strategy, e.g. low cost country sourcing
- Develop 3 year longer term purchasing strategy
- Develop a detailed 12 month purchasing plan and communicate progress against this plan
- Through extensive search, identify, assess and select capable suppliers
- Determine products and commodities that are conducive to low cost sourcing
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of product costs and associated cost breakdowns
- Match supplier capability to Company purchasing requirements
- Play a key role in implementing purchasing plan for commodities,
- leveraging opportunities with suppliers to reduce costs
Establish Sustainable Purchasing Function:
- Establish a team of people with the right cultural fit for the Company China
- Develop purchasing systems and processes to support quantitative and accountable decision making processes
- Set up appropriate relationships with suppliers
- Work with Plant GMs and Plant Management teams on local subtleties regarding pricing and service considerations
Financial Management:
- Ensure cost negotiations are managed and approved by the Purchasing team
- Manage any risk associated with additional input into the negotiation process
- Develop payments plans to optimise contractual payment terms
- Manage creditor expectations
- Develop and implement cost reduction initiatives
- Undertake financial modelling to assess purchasing / supplier alternatives, e.g. low cost country sourcing
- Support buyers in meeting new program budgets by identifying costs / products that align with targets
- Verify supplier cost changes and challenge / justify prior to approval
- Determine leveraging opportunities in order to minimise impact of cost increases
- Disseminate comprehensive cost information to all reports and gather team input
- Prepare and monitor monthly financial reports
- Ensure adherence to the business' financial systems & processes
People Management & Development:
- Develop the purchasing team to operate as a financial business unit
- Build purchasing team capability
- Ensure all people have objectives and performance plans in place
- Ensure the use of an effective performance management and tracking system
- Provide growth opportunities and ensure the development of a sound pool of people for future succession
- Ensure competency gaps within the purchasing team are promptly addressed
- Ensure effective resource management and optimisation across the purchasing team
- Ensure strong communication of direction, progress, initiatives and potential issues
- Ensure purchasing team adhere to compliance procedures and minimise financial risk.
Supplier Relationship Management:
- Handle supplier issues escalated by buyers
- Sponsor proactive discussions and negotiations with suppliers
- Interprets broad supplier capabilities and attributes
- Ensure the business understands who the key suppliers are and what their capabilities are
- Proactively anticipate supplier issues and takes action to address these / manage repercussions
- Manage supplier crises to ensure supply continuity
- Determine impact on suppliers of awarding / removing business
- Identify gaps in supplier performance and work in collaboration with supplier development to rectify this
- Provide supplier feedback
- Build effective networks that prove valuable to the business from a local and global perspective
- Ensure a process is in place for the proactive escalation of significant supplier issues
Business Partnering:
- Act as a trusted business advisor to the program teams regarding purchasing issues
- Act as a trusted business partner to Managers across the Company China
- Advise, coach and mentor on cost, supplier development and quality systems related issues
- Attend design reviews, provide input regarding pricing and product sourcing implications
- Provide support to the business regarding business case preparation
Business Optimization:
- Collaborate with Program teams to optimise program purchase costs during the product development cycle, e.g., design change timelines / cost, tooling timelines/ cost
- Manage supplier contracts to ensure the long-term continuous supply of products / services to minimise risk of price changes during term of supply
- Leverage global supplier relationships
- Advise team on risk management strategies including impact and likelihood of risks
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- University education of Engineering related course, preferably majoring in Industrial or Mechanical with degrees of BS or above.
- About 5 years related experience preferably in automotive industry.
- Strong negotiation skills; Good oral and written skills both in Mandarin and English and inter-personal skills.
- Good knowledge in PC, preferably in ERP etc.
- Result oriented. Good interpersonal relations to effectively interact with internal and external customers and suppliers.
- Travel availability and work schedule flexibility.
公司介绍
Shanghai XieCheng Consultancy Co., Ltd. was established in July 2000 as one of the earliest professional personnel service agency in the city of Shanghai, which focuses on talent recruitment and executive search.
In November of 2002, XieCheng was granted the business license by Shanghai Municipal Government which made the company one of 202 licensees so far in Shanghai. All the relative business in executive searching, contingency selection and information consulting are legitimate and protected by law.
We have accumulated rich experience and knowledge during the process of cooperating with international companies and extensive human resource networks, which enable us to recommend the most qualified candidates to our clients.
Key Focus:
Automotive Parts
Mechanical
Electronics & Electric
Energy Industry
Aerospace
Pharma.
FMCG
In November of 2002, XieCheng was granted the business license by Shanghai Municipal Government which made the company one of 202 licensees so far in Shanghai. All the relative business in executive searching, contingency selection and information consulting are legitimate and protected by law.
We have accumulated rich experience and knowledge during the process of cooperating with international companies and extensive human resource networks, which enable us to recommend the most qualified candidates to our clients.
Key Focus:
Automotive Parts
Mechanical
Electronics & Electric
Energy Industry
Aerospace
Pharma.
FMCG
联系方式
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