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Danaher Corporation Strategic Sourcing Manager, Japan in Inashiki-gun, Japan
Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation. As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world.
Pall is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.
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As a Strategic Sourcing Manager is responsible for the Strategic Sourcing activities related to Pall’s direct and indirect requirements for the Japan facility in Tsukuba. These activities will include, but not limited to significant interaction with Sales, Engineering and Operational functions to provide Global Sourcing, Outsourcing, Insourcing and overall Sub Contract Management in line with corporate strategy. The role will require interaction with other Strategic Sourcing/Category Managers, both regionally and globally.
The Sourcing Manager will be responsible to assist in the creation and implement such strategies while supporting overall strategy of Pall’s Global Strategic Sourcing organization. This individual will be held accountable for various Strategic Sourcing KPI’s; including but not limited to Contract price, Purchase Price Variance, Cost Reduction/Margin Enhancement, DPO/Supplier Payables, Global Value Engineering (VAVE) / LCR Sourcing, e-Auctions and Supplier Performance. He/She will also require to provide coaching to Sourcing Specialist in his/her daily activities and provide guidance
This position is part of the Asia Sourcing Team and based in our Japan - Tsukuba Manufacturing Site
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
Manage supplier’s relationship
Formulate and negotiate critical supply contracts, including assembling and analyzing market data, evaluating supply alternatives and crafting negotiating strategies.
Participate in continuously developing suppliers to meet Palls “Preferred/Qualified Suppliers/Grow” status (Forward Procurement List)
Participate in design reviews with engineering and suppliers on manufacturability & raw material selection in order to achieve most optimal component / service cost.
Support, monitor, evaluate, and mentor the local tactical purchasing team members while ensuring policies and procedures regarding compliance, commitments, early involvement, supplier selection, supplier evaluation, and supplier development related to the category are understood, and implemented.
The essential requirements of the job include:
Bachelor’s degree in Procurement or equivalent.
Engineering with minimum of 7 - 10 years of procurement, / strategic sourcing or / category management related experience.
Proven experience as a procurement, sourcing or commodity manager or similar executive role.
Proven negotiation skills, with demonstrated performance results.
Must be able to speak, written and communicate both in Japanese and English.
It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
Knowledge of Commodity management
New Product Introduction processes and supporting internal stakeholders (specifically the coordination of RFQ’s; putting together, submitting, tracking, BOM review and analysis).
Working in unstructured, fast-paced environments.
Global sourcing experience for a MNC manufacturing company.
Experienced with the usage of electronic sourcing tools for RFI, RFQ, Reverse Auction
Pall Corporation, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at danaherbenefitsinfo.com.
At Danaher we bring together science, technology and operational capabilities to accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life. Our global teams are pioneering what’s next across Life Sciences, Diagnostics, Biotechnology and beyond. For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
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