Senior Sourcing Manager(Toys)

ABOUT US

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we're a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

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WHY WE THINK YOU WILL LOVE THIS ROLE

The Sourcing Managerwill sit within our tms, Sourcing Strategy and Supply Chain team

Summary of role:

The Sourcing Manager role support on the management of on-going local market production enquires, global footprint diversification, vendor contingency management

The role is responsible for coordinating different sourcing activities including evaluate the market trend, identify new vendor and production location opportunities

Job Scope and Responsibilities:

·        To have the overview of different sourcing activities include local production of specific market, global footprint development projects at new territories and any other enquires of additional capacity in any locations.

·        Ongoing perform market research of different production locations, including capability & price benchmarking, delivery timelines, market leaders and trending

·        Collect and analyse sourcing data, regular report to leadership the insight of new market investigation and development

·        Coordinate with cross functional stakeholders to perform sourcing activities

·        Develop sourcing criteria, create RFI template for new vendor identification relevant to product/market requirement

·        Evaluate the submitted RFI and cross functional assessment result, shortlist the potential vendors to share with stakeholders, align the expectation with each function and finalist the selection the relevant candidates and provide the recommendation to management

·        Support new /ad hoc tasks & projects when required

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ORGANIZATION

Qualifications and Skills:

·        Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business or relevant / transferable experience

·        Proficient in sourcing and supplier evaluation and management, global sourcing experience of toy industry would be desirable

·        Experience of project management, RFQ

·        Possesses strong analytical, communication, interpersonal and project management skills

·        Excellent proficiency in MS Excel and Powerpoint

·        Adaptable and flexible with the ability to work well under pressure and challenging situations

·        Travel is required