APAC Operational Excellence Head and China Robotic Sourcing Advisor

• MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Coordinate the local service delivery of operational processes

• Coordinate the local service delivery of one or more operational processes in the assigned country or countries, provided by the Global Services Centres or third party providers.
• Ensure that globally provided services, processes and tools are being implemented in a standardized, efficient and compliant way to the benefit of the end-user community.
• Partner with category teams, Global Service Centres and Global Process Owners and a strong business partnering with department Heads and CFOs.
• Ensure close business partnering with the country stakeholders regarding all operational processes including compliance.
• Lead country and NGSC implementation, change management and adoption of global procurement systems, standards, processes and procedures.
• Drive standardization, continuous improvement and simplification.

• Explore opportunities across clusters/towers to drive projects to enhance impact

• Generate analysis with strong business insights to lead relevant projects to improve both productivity and region other KPIs
• Given working in dynamic market, the role is requested to go beyond global to drive best practice and innovation

• Single Source of Information and Data Hub

• Reliable information hub and data hub for APAC region, proactively collect and share region business insights to drive productivity.
• Work as APAC internal consultant for further improvement.

• Market intelligence/ study China robotics market to provide reliable/high quality vendors and support global sourcing.

• Strong business knowledge and insights on China robotics industry
• Manage global senior stakeholders to drive projects improvements

• Rich experience in managing countries/regions so that the role can well understand countries needs then initiate effective OE solutions
• Excellent service orientation for End Users in the following areas:

• Process & System rollouts,
• Trainings & Communications
• Service Catalogue and Hands Free Procurement

• Continued automation of the procurement environment.
• Improved Content Enablement capability.
• Effectively lead region projects to support countries to achieve KPIs

EDUCATION:

• Master’s degree/Advanced degree in Business, Organization development, Human resource management or similar is required.
• Additional qualifications (CIPS, Project Management, etc.) or similar professional qualifications are preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• > 10 years of relevant business experience (industry specific experience).
• Preferably > 5 years of experience in Procurement or other related experience within the Pharmaceutical industry, preferably in category management, supplier management, or related area, with a focus in with a focus in the <Category or area> domain.
• Strong project management or other leadership experience.

Excellent spoken and written English and Chinese.