# DM Purchasing Director, China

Welcome to KONE! We are a diverse team of over 60,000 employees, enabling safe, sustainable, and effortless people flow for billions of city dwellers every day. Innovating together across everything we do, we show the way for the good of our planet and its people. Here, you are welcomed as you are, your courage is celebrated, and your impact rewarded. Grounded by our strong roots stretching back over a century, our exciting journey continues - join us and let’s shape the future of cities together! Job Responsibilities: Develops and executes a comprehensive direct materials purchasing strategy that aligns with the company’s strategy and objectives Drives cost optimization through strategic sourcing initiatives Supervises Unit Sourcing Managers and ensures the implementation of sourcing strategy as well as operational excellence efforts Identifies cross-unit/area sourcing opportunities and risks Ensures that business requirements are understood and included in global/area-based or local sourcing plans Leads cross-functional area direct materials spend steering meetings Fosters collaboration between global/area and local sourcing teams Manages area-based stakeholders and their expecta

- **Id**: 1020955
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kone-dm-purchasing-director-china>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Kunshan, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-18T05:42:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T18:53:25Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 54
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3268
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 7398
- **Name**: KONE
- **Domain**: kone.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kone>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 220
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.814
- **Repost share**: 0.027
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 48000
- **Max usd**: 106000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 2174

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 54

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **China** — Iso: CN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-18T05:42:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.609
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 54
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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