Manager, Category Sourcing
E.L.F. BEAUTY
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Shanghai • China
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About the role
- Proactively identify category opportunities and business needs to build Category Sourcing Strategy as a guideline of entire supply chain from the product innovation to the end of the lifecycle. Deploy proactive supplier management to mitigate risk and continuously improve supplier pool’s capability and performance.
- Drive opportunities to optimize total value based on business needs balancing cost, speed and quality.
- Develop Category Sourcing Strategy as a guideline of cross functions to work out their strategy and priorities.
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams and suppliers to well implement strategy.
- Lead sourcing process optimization to standardize and improve ways of working internally & externally.
- To implement Supplier Relationship Management in company level per requirements of Sourcing Strategy
- Dig out internal business needs and leverage suppliers’ innovation capability as an engine to support business growth.
- Close to supply market and bring supply market & industry intelligence to support business growth.
- Continually develop supplier in other countries to diversify current supplier base.
- With industry sensitivity to foresee potential delivery risk and cost headwind, and take effective solutions to secure production & protect company profits.
Requirements
- Degree: Bachelor or above; MBA is a plus.
- English level: excellent
- 7+ years of strategic or commodity sourcing experience in FMCG multi-national corporation. From cosmetics industrials is a plus
- Experienced to develop Category Sourcing Strategy.
- With experience of OEM/ODM sourcing
- With experience to develop or manage oversea supplier base
- Successfully worked as a project leader to manage big projects across departments by proven project management skills and influence skills.
- Strong communication skills with internal stakeholders and influence skills with suppliers.
- Good capability to manage complexity and with knowledge on problem solving, strategic thinking.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- retirement savings plan
- gender neutral parental leave
- unlimited paid time off
- annual company-based performance bonus
- equity
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Category Sourcing Strategysupplier managementsourcing process optimizationOEM sourcingODM sourcingproject managementstrategic thinkingproblem solving
Soft Skills
communication skillsinfluence skillsleadershipcross-functional coordinationcomplexity management
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBA