Associate Manager, Procurement

Typical Accountabilities

Purchasing & supply

Make sure all processes/activities in this category are fully compliant to GMP, GIA, S404 requirements and company policy.

Contribute the good reputation and maximum benefit for company

Work closely with end users to understand their needs, expectation and manage stakeholders well

Ensure Suppliers’ qualification who supply to AZ.

Follow Regulations(GMP, GSP, Labor law etc) in daily purchasing activities

Forecast and demand management

Monitor the Daily procurement compliance and activities

Sourcing & supplier management

Make sure meeting AZ CR requirement in supplier sourcing & selection.  

SHE requirements are fully implemented in site service.

Research and analyze marketing intelligence to set up potential supplier database and ensure AZ have the enough procurement power during negotiation

Well understand supply market of materials used for production

Monitor supplier’s performance to ensure the good performance delivered.  

Annual contract & price review with key suppliers.

Meet with key suppliers on a regular basis, find improvement opportunities.

Use procurement network outside AZ

Networking with global category team

Work with end user to improve service quality.

Supplier PE for the key business

Achieve individual targets and KPIs

Lead important projects

Collaborate global team to align strategy

Stakeholder Relationship Development

Marketing intelligence Sharing Regular

BCP & BRM for business awareness and analysis

Value added service for end user capability lift up

Project management

Support the new business development ,

Stakeholder and supplier collaboration

Lead relevant projects for value delivery

Payment

Follow with open GR/IR , timely track the exception issue, Clear the overdue payment

Organization & People development

Regular staff coaching

Team meeting and knowledge sharing

Category management

Owning and developing local category strategy.

Providing market insights and savings targets

Education, Qualification,s Experience and Capabilities

7+ years working experience in MNCs and at least 5 years in Sourcing

Good personality and responsibility

Fluent in spoken and written English

MS office including Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

SAP is preferred

Project leadership capability

Good communication skill

Team work

Basic GMP&GSP knowledge     

Fast learning on GMP&GSP to identify the improvement area to meet compliance requirements

Basic Finance knowledge: To identify potential supplier risk and meanwhile to deliver value by understand supplier cost/quotation background

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