Job Description:

? Responsible for identifying, developing and maintaining suppliers and supply-base strategies to support the business objectives for product development.
? Collaborate with Product manager, R&D, and Vendors to develop new products and bring new products to the market or redesign the products to achieve cost competitiveness.
? Act as leader and facilitator among teams in driving projects forward with collaboration with cross function and cross-cultural team to deliver effective results within the expected timeline.
? Track currency, raw materials, labor, transportation and other metrics to aggressively pursue cost reduction opportunities and provide inputs to drive and execute the pricing strategy.
? Maintain effective business relationship with vendors associated with assigned product categories; Understand vendor impact on overall business and product category; Proactively be aware of potential changes with vendors or in related manufacturing industry.
? Identifies and defines problems through the gathering of relevant information leading to the development of alternative solutions and monitors results
? Approaches tasks and projects in a streamlined manner; applied knowledge of processes, product, and resources to optimize working efficiency

Qualifications:

? Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business
? Minimum 10+ years’ sourcing experience, having relevant experience in medical device would be preferred
? Proven leader with the ability to inspire others, build strong relationships
? Well negotiation skill and know how to drive the whole project.
? Detail-oriented and good patience are required. Need to handle various details and follow up with different vendors.
? Good learning ability, can work under pressure, work hardly, smartly
? Collaboration with teams effectively and respectfully
? With the knowledge of cost structure and understand how it affects the pricing
? Can prioritize tasks and projects in order of their importance; effectively able to differentiate between critical, time sensitive, and/or urgent tasks versus those that are less
? Strong written and verbal communication skills in Chinese and English