Associate Manager, Procurement
Typical Accountabilities:
Purchasing & supply
Responsible for procuring all indirect materials(opex + capex) , including Equipment, MRO, utilities, FM, laboratory-related items, and professional services. 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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