Responsibilities and Scope:

The Sr. Category Manager is responsible for logistics spend for APAC region. Responsibilities include supplier scouting, selection, supplier management, price & contract negotiation and working capital management. The Sr. Category Manager will develop and execute a category strategy that supports the company’s profitable growth plans. She/He will be the primary owner of cost savings and working capital improvements.  

Key Responsibilities:
    Drive the team to deliver financial results for field, corporate and plants
    Engages key influence network to build sponsorship for change
    Supports team's decisions in the face of uncertainty
    Creates strategies to achieve long term goals across business
    Coaches team for their development, improves team capability and skillset
    Build integrity culture
    Develop logistics category strategy by category cluster, implement category strategy in sourcing decision of Logistics spend
    Optimizes and rationalize the supply base
    Supplier account management for selection of suppliers
    Manage supplier performance and organize regular business reviews with suppliers of responsibility.
    Negotiation and maintenance of contracts and supply conditions
    Insights to supply base market intelligence & dynamics, scouting new suppliers to support the business growth
    Build significant process muscle in VAVE, which will increase profitability
    Deploy a global preferred supplier strategy to improve supplier quality, delivery and cost
    Drive year-over-year improvement in logistics spend through supplier negotiation
    Drive year-over-year improvement in working capital through supplier DPO management
    Monitor and support procurement productivity improvement projects complete on schedule
    Report monthly operation result by category cluster

Qualifications:
    Bachelor’s degree in engineering, supply chain management, or related business degree. MBA is a distinct advantage
    At least 5 years’ sourcing/procurement experience and at least 5 years’ experience in logistics operation management, and 3 years’ experience in team management
    Excellent negotiation skills, being able to build a compelling case and convince others, familiar with contracting
    Experience in market investigation, purchasing strategy establishment and implementation, familiar with cost reduction methods and tools
    Good interpersonal skills to enable and manage strategic relationships
    Adaptable towards a rapidly changing environment
    Experience in working in multi-cultural teams
    Experience in working in multifunctional development teams
    Preferably experience in an innovative but also cost-driven environment
    Experience in international trade
    Honest and Integrity
    Fluent in English
    Willing to travel