职位描述
Key Responsibilities:
• Provide business insights and opportunities from daily stakeholder engagement, improve the end-to-end sourcing experience, proactively identify and develop opportunities where GSS can drive greater value realization for business.
• Drive initiatives to improve the investment efficacy by analyzing stakeholder’s behavior, benchmarking market landscape and providing actionable insights.
• As an enabler to bring change and new innovation to leverage needs, identify new business opportunities to drive topline.
• Define and implement Category Sourcing cluster – GCO multiple commercial categories sourcing and supplier strategies for the allocated spend, ex. MICE, Professional Service Category, Media Buy, IT etc.
• Manage the local supplier relationships, performance and contracting based on clear spend analysis, targets and ongoing strategic review meetings with key suppliers.
• Define and deliver a strong savings contribute to GSS China annual saving target by assessing sourcing (Price) and demand (Quantity) initiatives. Conduct negotiation roadmaps with suppliers by applying corresponding strategies and best practices.
• Deploy global strategies and projects as well as bring local best practice to global.
Must have Qualifications:
• Purchasing knowledge: sourcing process, commodity management and analysis, supplier management and development, pricing theory and policy, negotiation, supply chain, make or buy.
• Degree qualification in business or equivalent or equivalent
• Purchasing related training
• Negotiation (at least 1 course)
• 3-5 years Purchasing experience in a profit driven and international environment
• (Project) Management experience (team or direct)
• Experience with tendering processes, supplier negotiations and contracting
• Experience with ERP
• Computer skills (MS-office environment)
• Fluency in English, both in oral and written communication
Preferred Qualifications:
• Business process related training
• Experience in either leading or participating in Six Sigma projects.
• 3 years Business Process related experience in a Pharmaceutical or similar environment
• Fluency in multiple languages
• Experience in presenting to senior management team
Professional Competencies:
• Technical
CatMan methodology: Understands CatMan methodology and contributes as team member
eSourcing: Basic user skills - understands how eSourcing tools work and the benefits from using them
Managing Supplier Relationships: Skilled manager of supplier relationships. Ensures consistent quality and supplier performance.
Category knowledge: Has some knowledge of several categories, especially as pertains to the home country
Planning, prioritizing and goal setting: Effectively plans and manages activities at the local level. Coordinates with others as needed. Delivers quality work on time
Negotiation: Advanced negotiator - drives cross-functional negotiation planning and frequently ensures win-win situation
Procurement processes: Promotes adherence to procurement processes, systems and policies to facilitate compliance with supplier agreements in-country
IT tools: Skilled user of MS tools: creates spreadsheets for analytical use on projects and prepares good presentations (informative /convincing)
English language skills: Speaks and writes English confidently
Project Management: Ability to lead and manage cross functional projects
• Behavioral
Interpersonal effectiveness: Handles conflict at working team level. Engenders enthusiasm.
Align, engage and mobilize stakeholders: Effectively implements communications programs within the organization.
Communication: Communicates good ideas frequently and effectively in most settings. Confidently delivers presentations, discusses basic issues well.
Stakeholder relationships: Is highly respected by the stakeholders. Develops good relationships with middle managers in other functions.
Results orientation: Focus on delivering against GSS targets.
Corporate perspective: Understands contribution of own work to corporate goals and objectives.
Analytical / conceptual thinking: Rigorously and logically identifies issues covering entire problem. Creatively uses data sources to develop fact base where data is hard to access. Suggests alternative approaches to solving the problem.
Business acumen: Familiar with at least one function outside of GSS; can explain the contents of a company annual report.
Amgen values: Adheres to Amgen values.