Sourcing Manager (Indirect Purchasing, Transportation)

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is an international courier company

Responsibilities

• Serving as Procurement Professionals
• Develop, maintain and share thorough knowledge of local Japan
• Develop local and contribute to regional and global category sourcing strategies and initiatives
• Prepare & lead strategic supplier negotiation with local suppliers
• Prepare, conduct and lead tenders (incl. E-sourcing)
• Ensure effective implementation of our group comany's Procurement contracts
• Ensure (sourcing, purchasing, company) policy adherence of regional / local Business Partners
• Conduct local & regional supplier management and identify new best in class regional suppliers
• Manage local budgets and contribute to regional targets
• Acting as Influential Partners
• Establish close relationships with regional/country BPs to ensure actual / future knowledge of demand and service quality; build and maintain solid understanding of respective business needs
• Ensure strong working relationship & cooperation with (in addition to Business Partners):Region/country and corporate sourcing / category managers, strategic suppliers, external partnerships locally (other organizations)

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in procurement general management
• Proven experience in leading negotiations of mid/large volume, high impact and with different degrees of complexity
• Leading diverse and remote teams
• Experience with mid-sized project management
• Language : Japanese - native, English - Business

 
 

Salary

7 - 10 million yen

Location

Tokyo