Procurement Manager (MRO/Cap Ex/Engineering)

Job Description

Add Flavor to Your Career and Life – Explore New Opportunities at Lee Kum Kee!

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Founded in 1888, Lee Kum Kee, a Hong Kong-based global food company, specializes in creating condiments and sauces that promote Chinese cuisine worldwide. With more than 300 products to choose from, Lee Kum Kee takes the mystery out of cooking authentic and delicious Asian foods in the comfort of your kitchen. Lee Kum Kee is committed to providing authentic and innovative condiments and sauces featuring the highest quality ingredients. Armed with a unique management culture, stringent quality control, superb and innovative products, coupled with the century long brand reputation, Lee Kum Kee has achieved unanimous recognition and won numerous prestigious awards.

Lee Kum Kee (USA) Inc., a division of Lee Kum Kee International Holdings Ltd., has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Southern California with more than 500 employees (Americas Zone Region). We are looking for the best and brightest talents to join our company and work together to bring the next level of success!

Position Summary

We are looking for individuals that are entrepreneurial in spirit that can collaborate across our internal stakeholders and across our Indirect procurement team to achieve company objectives and do so with a sense of urgency. This individual would be responsible for the full range of procurement activities from start to finish, including a mix of strategic and tactical support for our Capital Equipment (Capex) projects by working closely with Global CAPEX team.

Essential Functions

Brings and enhances supplier / industry market intelligence and insight as a source of innovation and value creation.

Develops sourcing strategies and cost reduction opportunities while ensuring supply and quality.

Manage end-to-end process including, but not limited to PO Creation, RFI/RFQ/RFP process, Invoice Resolution, full supplier and stakeholder relationship management

Close collaboration with Operation, engineering and sales to ensure successful development and execution of new capital investments

Manage functional KPIs, including reporting savings in alignment with procurement finance.

Negotiate and awards larger (multi-year) contracts

Expertise in contract structures, contract negotiation, understanding/communicating contract risk to the business

Provides highest level of service to internal and external customers.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Supply Chain/Operations Management, Economics/Finance, or similar.

10 years of experience in purchasing, Engineering or other related fields

7 years of experience Purchasing Capital Equipment (Capex)

Deep knowledge of procurement systems and sourcing of indirect services, MRO and Capex

Excellent communication and negotiations skills

Strong management skills with the ability to drive initiatives to completion

Ability to quickly analyze and solve complex problems

Self-starter, self-motivator and driven to succeed

Project management

Organizationally savvy & entrepreneurial mindset

Ability to be a team player, to work independently and cross-functionally while being a change agent

Ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and high degree of uncertainty

Excellent written and spoken English (Bilingual is a plus)

Domestic & Oversea Travelling is required

COMPETENCIES

Business Acumen

Problem Solving

Negotiating

Communication Skills

Team Player

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Excellent in command of written and spoken English. Bi-lingual in Spanish or Chinese is preferred.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSE, REGISTRATIONS

None

TRAVEL

This position requires travel; most travel is outside the local area and overnight. Some of the travel may be international.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel, taste foods; and reach with hands and arms.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. For out-of-area candidates, remote work could be arranged.

It is Lee Kum Kee’s policy to seek and employ the most qualified persons in all jobs in a manner which will ensure equal employment opportunity as well as administer personnel actions in a manner as to not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.