锦鲤求职岗位描述
Job Summary
The Global Category Associate Director is accountable for the development and execution of global category strategies for assigned direct material categories across all WuXi Biologics sites worldwide.
This role acts as the global category owner responsible for supplier strategy, commercial excellence, supply assurance, risk management and stakeholder alignment. The position will collaborate closely with regional/site procurement teams to ensure consistent implementation of category strategies while balancing global standardization and local business requirements.
The role is expected to lead strategic supplier relationships and drive long-term value creation through supplier partnerships, demand aggregation, commercial optimization, supply resilience and innovation.
The role may manage one or more strategic categories.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Global Category Strategy
Develop and maintain multi-year global category strategies for assigned material categories.
Conduct category segmentation, supply market intelligence and category risk assessments.
Define category priorities aligned with business growth, global manufacturing expansion and supply resilience objectives.
Drive category standardization and platform material deployment across global sites.
Establish preferred supplier and approved supplier strategies.
Strategic Supplier Management
Own executive-level relationships with strategic suppliers.
Build One Supplier Governance framework across regions and sites.
Lead Joint Business Planning (JBP) with key suppliers.
Develop supplier capability roadmaps
Support global supplier segmentation and governance programs.
Commercial Excellence & Cost Competitiveness
Lead commercial negotiations for: Global pricing agreements / Long-term contracts / Global MSA / Capacity reservation agreements
Drive demand bundling and volume leverage across sites.
Develop cost transparency and cost breakdown analysis.
Identify and execute cost optimization opportunities.
Benchmark global pricing and supplier competitiveness.
Supply Assurance & Risk Management
Build category supply risk management framework.
Develop dual-source and localization strategies for critical materials. Monitor: Single source exposure / Sole source exposure / Geographic concentration risk / Geopolitical risk / Capacity constraints
Establish mitigation plans for critical supply risks.
Support enterprise risk management initiatives.
Global Stakeholder Management
Partner with: Manufacturing / MSAT / Process Development / Quality / Supply Chain / Finance / Legal / Global Site Leadership
Balance global category strategies with regional operational requirements.
Lead cross-functional strategic sourcing projects.
Governance & Performance Management
Establish category KPIs and governance mechanisms.
Monitor and report: Cost savings / Supply assurance / Supplier performance / Contract coverage / Dual sourcing coverage / Risk mitigation progress
Support procurement transformation and process standardization initiatives.
Requirements：
Required
Bachelor degree or above in Supply Chain, Life Sciences, Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmacy or related disciplines.
10+ years of procurement, sourcing or category management experience, with Minimum 5 years of strategic sourcing/category management experience in: Biopharma, Pharmaceutical, CDMO/CMO, Biotechnology related industries
Proven experience managing strategic suppliers and multi-million-dollar categories.
Demonstrated achievement in complex commercial negotiations and long-term agreements.
Preferred
Global category management experience.
Experience managing critical biologics manufacturing materials.
Experience working in matrix and multinational environments.
APICS, CIPS, CPSM, CPPM, PMP qualification
Six Sigma or similar certification