Mission:
Manage the operational sourcing activities to support the business, innovation, and performances for L’Oréal Suzhou Plant
Key Job Accountabilities
- Analysis business needs and challenges demand: Anticipate major evolution of needs, propose the most valuable option involving internal and external network/resources.
- Secure business for Suzhou plant.
- Leverage Sourcing Activities to achieve best competitiveness result for P&L
- Implement Category strategy is aligned with Business needs
- Optimizes costs: Capture breakthrough ideas coming from the suppliers, and leverage market opportunity to deliver the best cost module.
- Anticipates business activity and acts proactively: competitiveness and that the strategy is implemented successfully and use breakthrough sourcing strategies to create value
- Value Analysis: perform value analysis with collaboration with R&I, Product Development Team, and category sourcing team (in China) to optimize total value of ownership.
- Operates according to internal control principles and legal rules: Develop a competitive advantage (exclusivity, group strategy, innovation, CSR, …)
- Evaluates and manages risks: Define and implement risk management policy and manage the risk exposure
- Manages Performance: Be accountable for purchasing performance and reporting, including but not limited to PPV (purchase price variance), Trend, Budget, etc.
- Manages stakeholders’ relationships and drive the same goal.
Job Requirements:
Education Qualifications:
- Chemistry/food/pharmaceutical or supply chain/business background
- Bsc./Msc. Chemistry/Pharma will be preferred
Experience:
- Experience of raw materials sourcing in chemical / Personal care / Food / Pharmaceutical industry will be preferred,
- Significant sourcing operation/supply chain management experience is highly preferred, e.g. experienced in chemicals international/trading company
- Capable of developing and implementing the purchasing strategy.
Soft skills:
- Self- motivated
- Result driven, leading problem solving
- Strong communication and project management skills
- Resilient, agile, working under high complexity and pressure
- High level of analytical skills
- To be fluent in English