Assistant Manager / Senior Sourcing Executive (1 year Contract) at Samsung in Mapletree Business City, Singapore, Singapore

Job description

• Your main responsibilities will be to act as a primary champion for local sourcing. You will lead the local potential supplier discovery, evaluation and promotion of potential suppliers to internal stakeholders. You will act as Program lead during the development process while ensuring the procurement compliance policies and regulations of respective countries. To achieve this objective, you will have to work closely with internal stakeholders from HQ, regional offices and global factories. This is an Individual Contributor role.

Responsibilities

• Identify potential Singapore base companies capable of supplying to consumer electronics industry
• Buildup of potential supplier pool database to enhance local sourcing
• Evaluate potential suppliers capabilities against internal benchmarks to assess suitabilities
• Support the evaluation of suppliers based on Samsung’s global procurement strategy
• Evaluate technological readiness and niche capabilities of potential local companies (e.g. advanced manufacturing, precision engineering, materials, sensors etc.)
• Assess and identify opportunities for development and test bedding of innovative solutions projects between our internal engineer teams and potential suppliers
• Act as the primary advocate for qualified Singapore-based companies, actively promoting their capabilities and value propositions to internal stakeholders (R&D, NPI, and Global Procurement).
• Bridge the gap between local potential companies and internal teams by facilitating technical discussions, pilot projects, and factory audits.
• Overcome internal resistance by building strong business cases for local suppliers, ensuring they are successfully integrated into the Approved Vendor List (AVL)

Requirements

• Degree in Business/Engineering (Electronics/Electrial/Mechanical).
• Proven experience in strategic sourcing, supplier development, procurement or technology NPI, preferably within the consumer electronics or high tech manufacturing industries
• Exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills, with a proven track record of driving cross functional alignment (R&D, Quality and Procurement)
• Strong ability to evaluate electronics components, manufacturing technologies and engineering capabilities.
• Familiarity with Singapore’s manufacturing ecosystems and technologies capabilities landscape is a plus
• Experience or knowledge in SAP and Tableau is a plusUse of computer & tools like MS Office, with advance skills in MS Excel & Power Point Presentation. A team player with good interpersonal and Communication Skills (Written, Verbal and presentation)

Skills

Required

• Strategic sourcing
• Supplier development
• Procurement
• Technology NPI
• Interpersonal skills
• Influencing skills
• Cross-functional alignment
• Evaluate electronics components
• Evaluate manufacturing technologies
• Evaluate engineering capabilities
• MS Office
• Advanced MS Excel

Preferred

• SAP
• Tableau