Regional Category Manager, Greater Asia

**Job Description Summary**: You will participate in the development and maintenance of leading-edge global sourcing strategies and appropriate supply base for the assigned category. Develop and maintain regional sourcing strategy as appropriate for the assigned category. Works in close alignment and collaboration with global strategic sourcing managers and implementation associates, ensuring that the business requirements of the region are reflected in strategy and implementation activities.

**Who We Are**:
**Job Purpose**:
You will participate in the development and maintenance of leading-edge global sourcing strategies and appropriate supply base for the assigned category. Develop and maintain regional sourcing strategy as appropriate for the assigned category. Works in close alignment and collaboration with global strategic sourcing managers and implementation associates, ensuring that the business requirements of the region are reflected in strategy and implementation activities.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Lead the regional category of Finished Goods procurement - with over $100Million spend/year and increasing rapidly. It is the biggest bucket of direct procurement in Greater Asia.
- Contribute to the global category teams in the development, communication and approval of sourcing strategies, collecting and providing regional business requirements and regional supply market information and supply practices.
- Communication and approval of global and regional sourcing strategies in the region, and responsible for either supplier selection, implementation and supplier management or ensuring appropriate handoff to other regional sourcing associates for regional supplier selection and / or implementation associates for strategy implementation.
- Ensuring that the regional aspects of category strategy(ies) result in and generate three to five year roadmaps of savings and value streams, and where appropriate, innovation opportunities
- Customer relationships with stakeholders for assigned category(ies) within the region
- Continually sensing of internal customers and supply markets for changes within the region that may impact the sourcing strategy.
- Accountable for year-on-year financial impact to assigned category(ies) with respect to price movement
- Participate in global category teams and leading regional category teams through the supplier selection process and for the approval of selected suppliers by stakeholders. The team-based supplier selection process is inclusive of identification of potential suppliers, RFX development and execution, proposal evaluation against business requirements and total cost of ownership, and supplier selection recommendation. Upon stakeholder approval and completion of successful negotiation and contracting, the associate is responsible for coordinating the communication of the supply base to the end user community.
- Contribute to global and conducting regional negotiation planning, negotiation and contracting with suppliers, and ensuring that agreements reflect BD's needs within the region.
- Execute supplier relationship management activities for key assigned suppliers within the region. May contribute to regional supplier management activities for global suppliers.
- Application of the source to pay process, inclusive of customer-centric support content and preferred payment methods, as part of sourcing strategies

**Job Requirements**
- Minimum 8 years of experience in procurement is essential, experience in direct materials, packaging and contract manufacturing procurement are preferred.
- Experience in Category strategy development for regional or global.
- Experience in supplier relationship management and supplier performance development.
- Ability to influence without direct authority.
- Good written and verbal communication skills. Japanese language is not essential but will be merit points.
- Experience in cross cultural negotiation and relationship management is essential. Japanese cultural understanding, experience in Japanese supplier development and relationship management will be merit points.

**Culture and Benefits**

Here at BD, we embrace a growth mindset, building capabilities for the future and helping you become the best version of yourself. We offer our employees a clear direction and career pathway for development. We pride ourselves on our transparent and rigorous talent processes that are inclusive, deeply embedded in trust, aligned with our culture, and enable us to achieve strategic imperatives of the organization. Our leaders are committed, engaged and accountable to making talent our top priority.

**How To Apply**

**Primary Work Location**: SGP The Strategy

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