C

Corning

Specialty glass, ceramics, and tech components

Lead Procurement Operations

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHefei, Anhui, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, operations, finance, or a related field is required.
  • At least 7 years of progressive experience in procurement, purchasing, shared services, or related operational functions.
  • At least 3 years of experience leading, supervising, coordinating, or formally influencing a procurement operations team in a high-volume, complex, matrixed, regional, or shared-services environment.
  • Demonstrated experience in end-to-end procurement operations, including Procure-to-Pay, requisition-to-purchase-order processes, purchasing execution, supplier coordination, purchase-order management, and operational issue resolution.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of procurement policies, approval requirements, internal controls, compliance expectations, process governance, and data-quality requirements.
  • Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders, business teams, and internal customers.
  • Experience using key performance indicators, dashboards, root-cause analysis, and operating reviews to improve service, quality, productivity, compliance, supplier performance, and customer outcomes.
  • Demonstrated experience leading process improvements, standardization initiatives, system or process changes, workflow improvements, and/or automation opportunities.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, including the ability to interpret operational data, identify risks and trends, prioritize actions, and drive issues to resolution.
  • Strong written, verbal, presentation, stakeholder-management, and escalation-management skills.
  • Fluency in written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

  • Lead day-to-day procurement operations execution, ensuring timely, accurate, compliant, and customer-focused support across requisition-to-purchase-order and Procure-to-Pay processes.
  • Lead and coordinate requisitioning, purchase-order creation and changes, approvals, purchase-order confirmations, urgent purchasing requests, and invoice or purchase-order exception resolution.
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for high-impact or urgent procurement issues, including purchase-order delays, policy exceptions, service failures, system issues, and customer escalations.
  • Ensure consistent application of global procurement processes, policies, standard work, approval requirements, delegation-of-authority requirements, and internal controls, partnering with other regional procurement leads to ensure consistency.
  • Monitor procurement key performance indicators and service delivery, and take timely action on backlogs, aged requests, blocked invoices or exceptions, and other customer- or business-impacting issues.
  • Lead performance reviews and root-cause analysis to address service, quality, productivity, supplier, compliance, system, and process issues, and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
  • Identify, assess, and escalate procurement-related compliance, control, system, capacity, and business-continuity risks through established governance processes and to the Senior Manager, Supply Chain Operations, as appropriate.
  • Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and performance management for Procurement Specialists and assigned resources; set objectives, provide feedback, recognize performance, and address capability or performance gaps.
  • Plan and manage team capacity and capability by assigning and balancing workloads, supporting hiring and resource planning, and leading onboarding, training, cross-training, knowledge transfer, and standard-work documentation.
  • Build and sustain a high-performing procurement operations team that demonstrates accountability, customer focus, disciplined execution, data-driven decision-making, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Partner with the Senior Manager, Supply Chain Operations, China on workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, organizational priorities, and resource needs.
  • Identify and lead procurement process-improvement initiatives that simplify work, improve quality, reduce cycle time, strengthen controls, increase productivity, and enhance stakeholder and supplier experience.
  • Partner with the Procurement Center of Excellence and Shared Services to implement and adopt global processes, policy changes, system enhancements, workflow improvements, automation, analytics, and new ways of working.
  • Support audit readiness and control effectiveness through control testing, documentation, audit responses, issue remediation, and implementation of sustainable corrective actions.
  • Build strong relationships with internal business partners to communicate priorities, resolve issues, and improve procurement and customer outcomes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a regional, multi-country, global, or centralized procurement/shared-services operating environment.
  • Experience with SAP/S4HANA, Ariba, PeopleSoft, or comparable enterprise resource planning and procurement platforms.
  • Experience supporting procurement transformation, enterprise resource planning implementation, system enhancements, process harmonization, workflow automation, or shared-services transitions.
  • Experience in a regulated, compliance-intensive, manufacturing, industrial, or complex global business environment.
  • Lean Six Sigma, APICS/ASCM, procurement, project-management, or operational-excellence certification.

About the Company

Corning

Specialty glass, ceramics, and tech components

Corning develops and manufactures specialty glass, ceramics, and related components for a range of industries. Its engineered glass and ceramic materials are produced and integrated into devices and systems such as smartphone screens, high‑performance displays, optical networks, automotive emissions controls, and life‑science equipment. The company differentiates itself with a broad portfolio across multiple markets, material science expertise, reliable supply, and end‑to‑end components and systems. Its goal is to help customers achieve performance and reliability by providing durable, high‑quality materials and connected solutions that scale with growing demand.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Corning, NY
Founded
1851

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Corning

See more jobs