Associate Manager, Category Sourcing

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Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, Shanghai, CHN
Hybrid
Senior level
Beauty
The Role
Manage category sourcing strategy, optimize sourcing processes, develop supplier relationships, assess performance, and leverage market intelligence for business growth.
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Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  • 1.   Category Strategy Development and Implementation
  • Identify opportunities to optimize cost and increase perceived value to improve gross margin.
  • Develop Category Sourcing Strategy as a guideline of cross functions to work out their strategy and priorities.
  • Lead or coordinate cross-functional teams and suppliers to well implement strategy.

  • 2.   Process Excellence & Relationship Management
  • Optimize sourcing process to standardize and improve ways of working internally & externally.
  • To perfect Supplier Relationship Management in company level per definition of Sourcing Strategy.

  • 3.   Open Innovation & Supply Market Intelligence
  • Dig out internal business needs and leverage suppliers’ innovation capability as an engine to support business growth.
  • Close to supply market and bring supply market & industry intelligence to support business growth.

  • 4.   Supplier & Risk Management
  • Assess supplier performance and take effective actions to improve with support from cross-functional teams.
  • Continually develop suppliers in other countries to diversify current supplier base.
  • With industry sensitivity to foresee potential delivery risk and cost headwind and take effective solutions to secure production & protect company profits.

Job Requirement:

  •  Degree:Bachelor or above;MBA is a plus.
  •  English level:excellent
  • 5+ years of strategic or commodity sourcing experience in FMCG multi-national corporation.
  • Experienced to develop Category Sourcing Strategy.
  • With experience of Raw Material.
  • Successfully developed or managed oversea supplier base.
  • Successfully worked as a project leader to manage big projects across departments by proven project management skills and influence skills.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree or above, MBA is a plus
  • 5+ years of strategic or commodity sourcing experience in FMCG multi-national corporation
  • Experience developing Category Sourcing Strategy
  • Experience with Raw Material
  • Experience managing overseas supplier base
  • Proven project management skills
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The Company
HQ: Oakland, CA
1,096 Employees
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. stands with every eye, lip, face and paw. Celebrating the beauty of every eye, lip and face is fundamental to our DNA. It’s in our name and inspires us as a company. We are committed to creating a culture internally – and in the world around us – where all individuals are encouraged to express their truest selves, are empowered to succeed and where we do the right thing for people, the planet and animals. Our deep commitment to inclusive, accessible, cruelty-free beauty has fueled the success of the e.l.f. Cosmetics brand online and at retail since 2004. With the 2020 acquisition of the pioneering clean-beauty brand W3LL People, and the new lifestyle beauty brand Keys Soulcare created with Alicia Keys, we continue to strategically expand our portfolio with brands that support our purpose and values. Our brands are widely available online, and at leading beauty, mass-market, and natural specialty retailers.

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