Sourcing Manager

Great companies begin with great people. Catalyst is expanding its sourcing team and looking for multi-talented, creative people who thrive on challenges and seek to produce excellence in their work.

You will get to work with world class talent, international customers and be responsible for a variety of roles and tasks in this fast growing company.

You can find out about our company by using the following links:
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Sourcing Manager

As a Sourcing Manager you will be responsible for handling the company’s end to end sourcing operations. The successful candidate will be able to appraise and improve our sourcing activities by analyzing the company’s spending, supplying partnerships and new possibilities.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the company’s supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending
  • Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies
  • Analyse and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure
  • Invent negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals
  • Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency
  • Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes
  • Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers
  • Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
  • Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques
  • Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers
  • Determine quantity and timing of deliveries
  • Product compliance

Requirements:

  • Proven working experience in a sourcing manager or procurement manager role
  • Experience with hard goods
  • Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management and relevant software
  • Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement
  • Strong project management and leadership skills
  • Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships
  • Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data
  • Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to manage complexity
  • Excellent communication and problem solving skills
  • The ability to manage internal & external stakeholders
  • Team player
  • Languages:  English is essential, Cantonese and Mandarin are also recommended

We offer a competitive remuneration package to the right candidate.  Interested parties please send your application letter, resume with present and expected salary by email to aisling@catalystlifestyle.com