Position Description

This position reports directly to HDE Global Procurement Director focusing on supporting the North America and Europe business sourcing needs in China region.  While based in China, this position works closely with global Commodity Managers as well as China local procurement team to make sure sourcing decisions are well aligned within the organization. 

Responsibilities span the entire strategic and tactical procurement process from new supplier identification, source selection, contract implementation, and portfolio optimization. The Commodity Manager will be responsible for supporting multiple commodities including manifolds, fabricated steel components, casting, PetroChemicals, machining parts, fans and fan drives, extrusion and other related items, including equipment sourcing.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Sourcing:

• Acquire and maintain deep insight into the market for commodities assigned, including industry trends, cost drivers, global pricing, lead-times, technology and manufacturing capability of suppliers in the market that best meet business expectations and objectives
• Lead supplier discovery, evaluation, selection, and sourcing
• Facilitate Request For Quote (RFQ)’s for new product programs and other sourcing initiatives

• Develop and implement global sourcing strategies to meet strategic objectives as well as program timing, cost, quality, and delivery requirements.

Cost Savings: 

• Develop and support supply base management strategies both regionally and globally that lead to lowest total cost in terms of quality, lead time, delivery, service and unit cost

• Facilitate Value Analysis / Value Engineering (VA/VE) activities and use data analytics in order to drive product cost savings and process improvement initiatives to achieve budget performance
• Partner with Product Managers and Procurement Analytics to perform ongoing price / rate benchmarking as well as other analytical modeling to ensure market competitiveness

• Use business analytics logic and skill to identify cost savings opportunities

Supply Continuity Assurance: 

• Support new product launch initiatives

• Working with the Supplier Fulfillment team to support escalations as needed with suppliers
• Work cooperatively with Supplier Quality Engineering, Product Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering to assess the quality capabilities of new and existing suppliers to ensure that all purchases meet defined quality standards.
• Identify critical supply disruption points in upstream value chain and formulate effective mitigation strategies

Commercial Precision:

• Manage the supplier onboarding process

• Prepare, negotiate, implement and manage purchasing agreements including pricing, terms and conditions, and expected supplier performance
• Ensure ERP system accuracy in terms of part price and purchasing documents

Required Education & Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 7 years of purchasing experience managing related components with increasing levels of responsibility in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with purchasing fabricated metal and complex assembly components required.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
• Solid working knowledge of financial principles and product cost structure analysis.
• Solid working data analytics skills.
• Time zone flexibility and ability to travel
• Self-motivated and ambitious on career development
• History of continuous improvement responsibility with measurable results.

 EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor degree in Supply Chain, Materials Management, Operations, Business Management, Engineering or other technical field.
• MBA preferred.