Overview
Reporting to Senior Manager, Asia Supply Chain, the Senior Procurement Engineer will support the Procurement department in identifying, developing and upgrading the supplier base to support the business needs of the organization. This position shall lead the efforts in developing Asia supply chain focusing within China, manage procurement activities with contract manufacturing partners, and support both NPI and sustaining activities in purchasing and supply management.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for developing Asia supply chain to support both NPI and sustaining activities.
- Lead negotiation, alternate sourcing and localization activities in China to improve local content.
- Optimize material cost by driving productivity and continuous improvement activities, including duty/tariff mitigation.
- Lead procurement activities for product transfer - source & quo te analysis.
- Ensure material availability to support production, including training and qualification.
- Ensure supplier deliver quality products at optimal cost.
- Monitor supplier performance (cost, quality and delivery).
- Execution of category strategy at site level. This includes developing and executing supply base strategies to improve supplier performance and ensuring appropriate levels of capacity to support business-unit demand.
- Collaborating with different functions (Global Procurement, Engineering, Operations, Quality and Distribution) in managing procurement issue: materials expediting, supply issue mitigation including support end of life and alternate sourcing proposals, ECO / PCN / TMD process, quality investigation and engineering evaluations.
- Provide Design for Manufacturing (DFM) input to product designs relating to manufacturability, cost reduction and ease of manufacture, by liaising closely with Waters Design Group and suppliers.
- Perform cost analysis, periodic repricing review, and track the site PPV / SCR performance.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management or Engineering (mechanical, electrical or electro-mechanical).
- Minimum 5 years relevant experience in procurement and manufacturing-based environment.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Must be able to work independently and connect with all levels of the organization.
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints.
- Proficient in MS office and MRP experience will be highly considered.
- Ability to travel as required.
Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.
Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.