As a Sourcing Associate, you will be in charge of:

61 The Indirect Purchasing for IBA China, and all IBA sites based in China during installation support.
61 The Sourcing of some spare parts for IBA China. Those spare parts might be commercial parts, or parts defined from drawing and/or technical specification.

You will report to the Country Manager China, with a dotted line to the Sourcing Manager in Belgium.


Your role will be:
61 To perform sourcing marketing to identify potential suppliers.
61 To prepare RFQ (Requests for Quotations) and send them to identify, or research new suppliers
61 To prepare, challenge and negotiate with the suppliers.
61 To establish and manage contractual relations with suppliers.
61 To ensure the quality of the purchased items in collaboration with the Business Unit and Suppliers Development Engineers team.
61 To build up and secure the milestone management plans and production capacities of the suppliers.
61 To identify critical solutions, organize technical reviews and post-mortem analysis with suppliers.
61 To identify and implement collaborative actions to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and deploy continuous improvement actions.
61 To coordinate purchasing activities with system owners as well as the whole supply chain.
61 To lead recurrent meetings with your dedicated Procurement Associate and Supplier Development Engineer (SDE) to follow issues, action plans, and improvements related to your purchased commodities.
61 To define, get approval on and implement sourcing strategies for your commodities of products.

Requirement:

61 You have a *** experience in technical purchasing and/or indirect purchasing.
61 You have excellent negotiation, networking and persuasion skills.
61 You are a driven and result-oriented individual and you can organize your work autonomously.
61 You are a flexible and stress resistant person with effective organizing and problem-solving skills.
61 You are a team player with excellent oral and written communications skills, both in Chinese and in English.
61 You have experience of selecting, qualifying and managing solutions suppliers based in a Quality Management System.
61 Knowledge of MS Office and SAP (MM) is a must.