Manager, category - machinery

Your Job Indirect Category Assist in driving a transformational change to evolve Procurement's role to a valued business partner while tactically managing machinery category in Zhu Hai. Optimize existing and implement new sourcing strategies, best practices, and initiatives to drive significant improvements in supplier quality, total cost effectiveness, and service levels.

Execute category sourcing strategies including development and execution of RFIs and RFPs, documentation of bid events through correspondence to suppliers, develop selection criteria. Manage all day-to-day and on-going category supplier relations and performance to seek outgrowth or revision opportunities within supply base. Build business cases based on internal analytics, a deep understanding of business requirements, industry category trends, and best practices.

Our Team Benchmark, track, and analyze annual performance metrics and sourcing trends to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress against strategic objectives. Implement supplier management programs with key suppliers including metrics, performance goals, and improvement initiatives.

What You Will Do

Strategy:

• Assume leadership roles in the development and deployment of global category strategies that align with the Company and Division’s overall procurement strategy.
• Guide and collaborate with stakeholders towards the common category strategy.
• Design KPIs, track progress and adjust strategies to ensure continual improvement of Cost and Supply Base performance.
• Optimization on total cost of ownership leveraging Fact-based elements (i.e. supplier price breakdown, including processing cost obtained either through internal calculations, external benchmarking, market driven pricing, etc.).
• Define, collaborate and execute negotiation strategy, negotiation schedule and supplier selection criteria.
• Strategy review and adjustment in line with Company’s strategies.
• Identify supply risks to supply/cost and develop plan to mitigate risks.

Leadership:

• Develop a team with a broad range of commercial, technical and organizational skills to ensure high leverage in Supplier selection, approval, negotiations and performance management.
• Develop supply base and sourcing staff performance measurements / metrics and plans and manage results to meet targets and report progress.
• Engage with engineering / quality stakeholders and other subject matter experts to ensure sourcing strategy is aligned to and capitalizes on supplier technology / product roadmaps to drive innovation.

Supplier selection & approval:

Overall responsibility for identification, evaluation and the approval process of new suppliers that meet Molex performance standards and compliance requirements, preferable in LCC. Drive cross functional teams including but not limited to Quality, Operations and Engineering in this undertaking. Leverage current supply base or Identify new suppliers to support new product launches / initiatives. Global / Regional Contracts / Make vs Buy Refresh cycle or outsourcing opportunities.

Pricing & Cost:

Drive commodity-level improvement programs on cost, quality excellence, supply chain at suppliers. Develop and maintain a portfolio of cost saving projects that meet Molex targets for material cost reduction.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering /Business (for Indirect).
• Minimum 5 yrs. procurement experience in high-tech component industry; 3+ yrs progressive leadership experience.
• Strong computer skills; Microsoft Office, SAP and related systems.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to lead and/or work well in cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem solving, analytical and organizational skills.
• Strategic Category Planning knowledge.

What Will Put You Ahead

Industry & marketplace understanding. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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