Senior Specialist, Raw Materials

Manage one category of Asia regional Raw Materials purchasing.  The success of sourcing the raw materials is critical to business success.   The job includes strategy development, strategy alignment with global and regional business, contract negotiation and supplier relationship management.

Manage one or more major raw materials for Asia including strategy development, strategy alignment with business, supply market analysis, contract negotiation and strategic supplier relationship management to obtain and maintain competitive cost advantage.  Major materials include but not limited to ethanol, butanol, utilities, etc.;

Provide strategy framework and market evaluations including supply/demand, production economics, competitive forces, etc.;

Interface with business lines, and other key functional stakeholders to ensure alignment with business strategies;

Seek for innovative ways and Lead strategic sourcing projects relate to the materials in charge, which reduce cost, enhance revenues, operational efficiency, EHS performance and new product development;

Negotiate raw material contracts and spot buys across Asia sites with global and local suppliers with the overall goal to provide raw material to businesses at favorable conditions;

Ensure security of supply for all Asia sites and Prepare rolling price forecast for the materials in charge;

Achieve productivity target and continuously create value for the business;

Supervise “Supplier Quality Management” process and handle external and internal audits;

Other tasks assigned by the manager.

Required Experiences:

A university degree (business based preferred)

Approximately more than 5 years of relevant career experience for the role (Sourcing / Business / Commercial / S&OP)

Skills Required:

• Strategic thinking and problem solving. Align initiatives with Enterprise strategy.​​
• Deep business acumen.
• Strong negotiation/influencing skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.​ Align teams across regions, bringing global supplier insights to drive a global strategy.
• Excellent communication and relationship skills (internal clients, external suppliers); Build collaborative relationships​ to deliver value​​.
• Data analysis skills: Ability to analyze complex problems & ambiguous situations and design/implement solutions.
• High level of understanding of Supply Chain fundamentals.
• Good understanding of Finance fundamentals.
• Agility to move quickly as a team and make bold decisions when the context changes​.