Category Sourcing Manager - Marketing APAC

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Your Team:

Indirect procurement team is accountable and responsible for strategy sourcing and category management for all marketing global spend across Personal Health and Health Systems, ensure contract compliance, best marketing procurement strategy to drive productivity and TCO, sustainability and innovation. The team is here to provide the best Indirect Procurement solutions for Philips to create value with sustainable impact.

We achieve this by:​

• Strengthen Philips competitiveness and maximize impact of indirect spend by co-innovating with our stakeholders & suppliers

• Drive excellence through improved user experience, operational delivery, quality & compliance

• Foster healthy team culture and people development

Your role:

• Accountable end-to-end Sourcing to Pay (S2P) marketing category management for the region

• Responsible for the strategy sourcing for marketing category scope including media, comms &PR, creative, Event, marketing digital engagement, marketing insights, POS, ISP and sponsorship, vendor selection, development, and management of enterprise & strategic supplier relationships, contract management and stakeholder management and performance in a company.

• Responsible for new supplier onboarding approval and PR approval

• Responsible for all E2E sourcing projects and contract management

• External network/benchmarking to ensure that the latest market development is translated into actions

• Partner with business stakeholder to identify the impactful procurement project and drive the tangible procurement and business value

• Supplier Risk Management, Quality and Sustainability

• Be able to work with 3rd party procurement partner to execute the sourcing projects

• Supports and the manages subsequent impact on commodity flow

• Leads contract negotiations

• Demonstrates ability to leverage global contracts

• Builds and maintains up to date knowledge about company’s processes, strategies & industry trends

• Develops working level supplier relationships and supplier performance management

• Conducts complete diagnosis of most business problems, factoring in a strong understanding of inventory management

• Independently identify, design, direct, and perform analyses to resolve complex first‐time inventory issues

• Proactively assess and recommend solutions to supplier‐related problems (e.g. inventory flow problems, related process issues)

• Recommends strategic direction for long term spending plans.

You're the right fit if you have :

• 8 – 10 years of relevant sourcing/procurement background and relevant Marketing services: Media, creative, Marketing insights, POS, Event etc. (other indirect categories is a plus)

• Strong entrepreneurial skills, energy and excellence in execution to her/his work 

• Strong collaboration and Teamwork skills 

• Be strategic partner with enterprise thinking

• Execution focused, able to project manage and own processes with rigor in execution & drive for excellence 

• Manage cross functional/cross business issues and generate impact and results through others 

• Analytical data driven with good excel skills, and problem-solving skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (other languages is a plus) 

• Negotiations skills 

• Category (regional) and Supplier Strategy Development, contract management, risk management skills

• Strong Networking & Influencing skills, strong agility and adaptability

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office-based role.

About Philips
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here.

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