Job Purpose:
The Regional Sourcing Manager for Smiths Detections APAC based businesses will oversee all Sourcing activity for all parts of the business in the APAC region. The role holder will be the focal point for all sourcing activity within the region.
Duties:
- Working with the category Management organization ensure that Sourcing strategies are aligned to business requirements and are focused on extracting maximum value from our supply base employing a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) mind set.
- Build plans that will localize supply for target categories within the Johor facilities spend portfolio.
- Build year over year cost reduction plans that consistently deliver TCO improvement for the APAC business.
- Leads business reviews with major regional suppliers to drive operational excellence and ensure strategic relationships are successfully developed
- Working with the Category Management organization optimize the number of strategic vendor partnerships across area of responsibility and drive low volume spend into preferred higher value agreements.
- Be the focal point of Sourcing activity in the APAC region providing guidance and mentorship to the category management and Sourcing team members in the region.
- Identify supplier risks via single sourcing and vulnerable supply lines and develop plans with our colleagues in P&T to mitigate these risks.
- Work with the P&T teams to ensure that our designs are cost effective for the APAC Regional and that a product lifecycle approach is taken in line with our aftermarket strategy.
- Implement global standard cost recovery process within the APAC business ensuring supplier COPQ levels are recovered from non-performance with clear supplier causality.