Job Purpose:
The role is focused on driving excellence in Category Management processes within our Electronics spend across all of Detection business in the APAC Region, ensuring that all parts of the business are aligned to category strategy. Driving improvements in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and speed to market across the category area via excellent supplier relationship management and execution within the wider Smiths stakeholder group.
Duties:
- Develop CM processes with the Global Category Manager for Electronics across the APAC Region with value stream thinking at the heart of process design.
- Ensure key strategic sourcing processes become imbedded within our manufacturing facilities and service hubs.
- Ensure long term approach is taken and category strategy is developed with all key stakeholders within geographical remit. This will include but is not limited to Senior Technology and Operations leaders.
- Ensure the electronics equipment category strategy is developed, socialised, understood within responsibility area.
- Ensure that business with key supplier partners is awarded on a TCO basis considering, Cost, Working Capital, COPQ, VOTD.
- Relentlessly drive lead time improvements via close collaboration with stakeholders in SCM & IBP.
- Via our matrix organisational structure ensure excellence in strategic sourcing processes is developed with direct material category managers within our sourcing teams.
- Working with the Global Category Manager Electronics manage supplier segmentation / panel management approach that will serve as the platform for the SRM level to be deployed into each electronics equipment vendor.
- Ensure excellence in SRM is executed across the electronics equipment supply base within remit delivering improved performance and incumbency with key supplier partners.
- Execute Low Cost Country Sourcing efforts reducing Detections TCO within category responsibility.
- Ensure key strategic sourcing processes become embedded when both selecting and managing our supplier partners.
- Working with the Global Category Manager Electronics ensure strategies are aligned to Smiths Group direction and policies.
Ensure excellence in SRM is executed across responsibility area delivering improved performance and incumbency with key supplier partners.