Strategic Sourcing Manager
- Shanghai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Build strategic and long-term relationships with suppliers in China
- Improve Kerry's competitive advantage
- Capture and share competitive market insights with the technology teams (Clean Label Preservation and Bio-Fermentation)
- Secure the supply of key ingredients from Chinese suppliers supporting the differentiation of Kerry product in the marketplace
- Confirm our suppliers in China are following Kerry-approved food safety and quality guidelines as well as manufacturing consistent fit-for-purpose material in line with our specifications
- Understand the dynamics of our supply partners (e.g., raw material, upstream and downstream technical know-how)
- Ensure the communication flows well to enable a strong supply chain, regulatory and quality assurance programs
- Strengthen and expand marketplace knowledge by understanding the supply base and the economic and business dynamics (e.g., cost/price models).
- Build a network of potential strategic supply partners and understand their business model, their current and future capabilities, and their competitive or complementary market position to Kerry.
- Cultivate relationships with strategic supply partners with the goal of facilitating and/or architecting creative means toward securing supply or strengthening the value proposition of Kerry's technology.
- Serve as the key point of contact for Kerry to these strategic supply partners, coordinate with procurement on negotiations and contracts, and support with key stakeholder communications.
- Challenge and enhance the competitive advantage of Kerry by proposing innovative and enterprising ideas through working with strategic supply partners.
- Study the market dynamics and risk consideration for the key ingredients including supply & demand fundamentals, capacity evolution, regions of expertise, and end-to-end competitive activity.
- Participate as a key member of the Bio Fermentation Pillar team and understand the business growth strategies. Working closely with Project Management, Procurement, RDA, Supply Chain, Quality, and IO.
- Communicate effectively and timely with the key stakeholders within the business team to support the growth initiatives, competitive advantage, strategic platform, and customer excellence.
- Connect with Business Development to understand the direction of the marketplace and the technical specifications needed from ingredients. Collaborate with RDA in creating market-relevant products with the sourced ingredients.
- Assess the “clean label” marketplace in China and provide insight into creating a larger market share for Kerry within China. Define and execute a Kerry FPP strategy in China.
- Bachelor's or master's degrees as a food major.
- Minimum of 5 years of purchasing experience with an impressive track record of accomplishments and continuous improvements Technical/science background prefer knowledge of fermentation process.
- Focused, results-oriented and able to challenge the status quo to achieve both the medium term to long-term KPI level and implement the global strategy.
- Excellent interpersonal communication, relationship management and good influencing and stakeholder management skills to be able work across all levels within an organisation.
- Travel: Minimum 20% of the time.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines. Acts with drive, determination and resilience.
- Delf-motivated and career driven with strong sense of enthusiasm and commitment.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills.
- Be able to speak Chinese and English fluently.