Sr Category Manager, Logistics APAC

Job Title: Sr. Category Manager, Logistics

Location: Shanghai

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