Associate Manager, Procurement

Typical Accountabilities:

Purchasing & supply

• Make sure all processes/activities in this category are fully compliant to GMP GIA S404 requirements and company policy.

• Contribute the good reputation and maximum benefit for company

• Work closely with end users to understand their needs expectation and manage stakeholders well

• Ensure Suppliers qualification who supply to AZ.

• Follow Regulations(GMP GSP Labor law etc) in daily purchasing activities

• Forecast and demand management

• Monitor the Daily procurement compliance and activities

Sourcing & supplier management

• Make sure meeting AZ CR requirement in supplier sourcing & selection.

• SHE requirements are fully implemented in site service.

• Research and analyze marketing intelligence to set up potential supplier database and ensure AZ have the enough procurement power during negotiation

• Well understand supply market of materials used for production

• Monitor suppliers performance to ensure the good performance delivered.

• Annual contract & price review with key suppliers.

• Meet with key suppliers on a regular basis find improvement opportunities.

• Use procurement network outside AZ

• Networking with global category team

• Work with end user to improve service quality.

• Supplier PE for the key business

• Achieve individual targets and KPIs

• Lead important projects

• Collaborate global team to align strategy

Stakeholder Relationship Development

• Marketing intelligence Sharing Regular

• BCP & BRM for business awareness and analysis

• Value added service for end user capability lift up

Project management

• Support the new business development

• Stakeholder and supplier collaboration

• Lead relevant projects for value delivery

Payment

• Follow with open GR/IR timely track the exception issue Clear the overdue payment

Organization & People development

• Regular staff coaching

• Team meeting and knowledge sharing

Category management

• Owning and developing local category strategy.

• Providing market insights and savings targets

Education Qualifications Experience and Capabilities

• 7 years working experience in MNCs and at least 5 years in Sourcing

• Good personality and responsibility

• Fluent in spoken and written English

• MS office including Word Excel Powerpoint.

• SAP is preferred

• Project leadership capability

• Good communication skill

• Team work

• Basic GMP&GSP knowledge

• Fast learning on GMP&GSP to identify the improvement area to meet compliance requirements

• Basic Finance knowledge: To identify potential supplier risk and meanwhile to deliver value by understand supplier cost/quotation background

Date Posted

Closing Date

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