Indirect Purchasing Supervisor

Every day, we get opportunities to make a positive impact - on our colleagues, partners, customers and society. Together, we’re pioneering the solutions of the future and unlocking the full potential of precious resources. Trusted to act on initiative, we challenge conventional thinking to develop world-leading technologies that inspire progress in vital areas, including energy, food, water and shipping.

As we push forward, the innovative, open spirit that fuels our 140-year-old start-up culture and rapid growth also drives our personal growth. So, as we shape a more resourceful, less wasteful world, we build our careers too.

Who you are:

This person is overall responsible for procurement execution, including PR/PO process, vendor management, data analysis. Work together with central and local team to secure implementation of global polices. Work on various spend categories, aiming to find better deals and more profitable suppliers.

• Support stakeholders' daily purchase requirements and focus on high spend with RFI,RFQ, sourcing and price comparison.
• Handle system issues like PO issue, maintain preferred supplier list and blacklist
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure purchasing policy and process is implemented and followed.
• Reviews purchase orders, selective audit.
• Evaluates vendors based on quality, timeliness, and price.
• Perform Supplier Due diligence check.
• Regular analysis of purchase data to find out deviation and cause
• Researches and evaluates vendors to compare pricing and services.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
• Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers.
• Maintain preferred supplier list and black list.
• Timely periodic review of existing Vendors.
• Travels to vendor locations.
• Keeps up with trends in procurement.
• Works together with central and local team to secure synergies and global policies implementation.

What you know:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Finance, Economics, Logistics or related discipline
• 5-10 years of relevant experience in indirect procurement
• Proactive and self-motivated
• Solid experience in sourcing in categories of real estate, capex and marketing
• Good knowledge and practices in information systems, such as ERP, SharePoint, Office 365, Supplier management systems.
• Able to manage multiple tasks and result oriented.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills, able to manage and work efficiently with various levels of people in matrix organization with diversified culture.
• Demonstrate ability to think strategically, tactically and operationally
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills
• Able to inspire, engage and drive new ideas and innovation
• Fluent English and good communication in both Chinese and English

We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioral traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.