Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Category Manager - Machinery

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeZhuhai, Guangdong Province, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business is required.
At least 5 years of procurement experience in the high-tech component industry is required.
At least 3 years of progressive leadership experience is required.
Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office, SAP, and related systems, are required.
Strategic category planning knowledge is required.
The role requires the ability to lead and/or work effectively in cross-functional teams.
Strong problem-solving, analytical, and organizational skills are required.
Good written and oral communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

Assist in transforming Procurement's role into a valued business partner while tactically managing the machinery category in Zhuhai.
Optimize existing sourcing strategies and implement new strategies, best practices, and initiatives to improve supplier quality, total cost effectiveness, and service levels.
Execute category sourcing strategies, including developing and executing requests for information and requests for proposals, documenting bid events through supplier correspondence, and developing selection criteria.
Manage day-to-day and ongoing category supplier relationships and performance to identify growth or revision opportunities within the supply base.
Build business cases based on internal analytics, business requirements, industry category trends, and best practices.
Benchmark, track, and analyze annual performance metrics and sourcing trends to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress against strategic objectives.
Implement supplier management programs with key suppliers, including metrics, performance goals, and improvement initiatives.
Lead development and deployment of global category strategies aligned with company and division procurement strategies.
Guide and collaborate with stakeholders toward a common category strategy.
Design key performance indicators, track progress, and adjust strategies to continually improve cost and supply-base performance.
Optimize total cost of ownership using fact-based inputs, including supplier price breakdowns, processing costs obtained through internal calculations, external benchmarking, and market-driven pricing.
Define, collaborate on, and execute negotiation strategies, negotiation schedules, and supplier selection criteria.
Review and adjust strategy in line with company strategies.
Identify supply and cost risks and develop mitigation plans.
Develop a team with commercial, technical, and organizational skills to support supplier selection, approval, negotiations, and performance management.
Develop supply-base and sourcing-staff performance measurements, metrics, and plans; manage results to meet targets and report progress.
Engage engineering, quality stakeholders, and other subject-matter experts to align sourcing strategy with supplier technology and product roadmaps and drive innovation.
Oversee identification, evaluation, and approval of new suppliers that meet company performance standards and compliance requirements, preferably in low-cost countries; lead cross-functional teams including Quality, Operations, and Engineering.
Leverage the current supply base or identify new suppliers to support new product launches and initiatives.
Refresh global or regional contracts and make-versus-buy assessments, and identify outsourcing opportunities.
Drive commodity-level improvement programs for cost, quality excellence, and supplier supply chain.
Develop and maintain a portfolio of cost-saving projects that meet material-cost-reduction targets.

Desired Qualifications

Industry and marketplace understanding is preferred.

Your Job

Indirect Category

Assist in driving a transformational change to evolve Procurement's role to a valued business partner while tactically managing machinery category in Zhu Hai.

Optimize existing and implement new sourcing strategies, best practices, and initiatives to drive significant improvements in supplier quality, total cost effectiveness, and service levels

Execute category sourcing strategies including development and execution of RFIs and RFPs, documentation of bid events through correspondence to suppliers, develop selection criteria

Manage all day-to-day and on-going category supplier relations and performance to seek outgrowth or revision opportunities within supply base

Build business cases based on internal analytics, a deep understanding of business requirements, industry category trends, and best practices

Our Team

Benchmark, track, and analyze annual performance metrics and sourcing trends to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress against strategic objectives

Implement supplier management programs with key suppliers including metrics, performance goals, and improvement initiatives

What You Will Do

Strategy:

·Assume leadership roles in the development and deployment of global category strategies that align with the Company and Division’s overall procurement strategy.

·Guide and collaborate with stakeholders towards the common category strategy.

·Design KPIs, track progress and adjust strategies to ensure continual improvement of Cost and Supply Base performance.

·Optimization on total cost of ownership leveraging Fact-based elements (i.e. supplier price breakdown, including processing cost obtained either through internal calculations, external benchmarking, market driven pricing, etc.

·Define, collaborate and execute negotiation strategy, negotiation schedule and supplier selection criteria.

·Strategy review and adjustment in line with Company’s strategies.

·Identify supply risks to supply/cost and develop plan to mitigate risks.

Leadership:

·Develop a team with a broad range of commercial, technical and organizational skills to ensure high leverage in Supplier selection, approval, negotiations and performance management.

·Develop supply base and sourcing staff performance measurements / metrics and plans and manage results to meet targets and report progress.

·Engage with engineering / quality stakeholders and other subject matter experts to ensure sourcing strategy is aligned to and capitalizes on supplier technology / product roadmaps to drive innovation

Supplier selection & approval:

Overall responsibility for identification, evaluation and the approval process of new suppliers that meet Molex performance standards and compliance requirements, preferable in LCC. Drive cross functional teams including but not limited to Quality, Operations and Engineering in this undertaking.
Leverage current supply base or Identify new suppliers to support new product launches / initiatives.
Global / Regional Contracts / Make vs Buy Refresh cycle or outsourcing opportunities.

·Leverage current supply base or Identify new suppliers to support new product launches / initiatives.

Pricing & Cost:

Drive commodity-level improvement programs on cost, quality excellence, supply chain at suppliers. Develop and maintain a portfolio of cost saving projects that meet Molex targets for material cost reduction.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering /Business (for Indirect)
Minimum 5 yrs. procurement experience in high-tech component industry; 3+ yrs progressive leadership experience
Strong computer skills; Microsoft Office, SAP and relatedsystems
Good written and oral communication skills
Ability to lead and/or work well in cross-functional teams
Strong problem solving, analytical and organizational skills
Strategic Category Planning knowledge

What Will Put You Ahead

Industry & marketplace understanding

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About the Company

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding: $985.2M
Headquarters: Wichita, KS
Founded: 1940

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