Associate Manager, Category Sourcing

Elfbeauty

Shanghai, China Hybrid permanent

Posted: July 15, 2025

Job Description

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.

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