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WuXi Biologics

Vice President, Head of Global Sourcing and Procurement

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Job Purpose


This position provides high-level strategic direction and leadership in critical areas of Global Sourcing and Procurement Management. Being responsible for developing sourcing strategy including develop category strategies and supplier management frameworks to ensure supply security and effectiveness, improve procurement efficiency and stakeholder experience, as well as performance management, capability building and enhance operation excellence

. Consistently works with abstract ideas or situations across regions and business. Through assessment of intangible variables, identifies and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas.


Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement global sourcing and procurement strategies to integrate and streamline resources across different regions and business, aim to build up an agile strategic sourcing and procurement organization to improve supply chain capability and resilience to cope with increasing supply chain complexity and support business growth.

• Deeply participate into corporate strategy and business planning, as well as budgeting, to overall plan the operation of global sourcing and procurement, build robust S2P processes globally and regionally.

• Be responsible for procurement whole life cycle cost control and supplier management, including savings, OTD, quality, ESG etc., to build up strategic global vendor eco system.

• Design and roll out global sourcing and procurement digital platform and key initiatives, deploy AI and effective tools, to improve process compliance, efficiency and data governance for global sourcing and procurement.

• Detailed daily responsibilities including overseeing various functions of sourcing and procurement including category management, procurement delivery, drive productivity (COGS, OPEX) through strategic partnership, scale, value engineering and M&A synergies; closely collaborate with Global SCM and balance cost and service levels

• Build up capable global sourcing and procurement organization through talent pipeline build up, talent upskilling and reskilling, as well as critical organizational capability development and mechanism building.


Qualifications

• Ability to develop and implement long term strategies that align with organizational goals.

• Demonstrated success in supplier management, strategic sourcing, cost reduction projects, LEAN, on-time delivery, supplier sustainability, strategic SCM or experience in a mature industry/healthcare industry/consulting.

• Demonstrates the ability to manage by the numbers but not lead by the numbers. Able to drill down into financial details but ensure business success by leading people

• Excellent business, financial and negotiating skills are required along with knowledge of quality systems, lean manufacturing processes and project management knowledge

• Customer focused, able to listen, adaptive, and action oriented to meet business needs while maintaining a positive, professional outlook.

• Strong analytical skills that allow the successful candidate to extract core data from a variety of sources, draw conclusions and insights, and translate those insights into actions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with requisite interpersonal skills to partner, collaborate and build relationships with business partners, suppliers, and global teams.

• Visionary and core-value driven, lead team endeavor and be success during transformation.

• Embrace a global footprint, and passion for connection and collaboration.

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