WuXi Biologics
Global Category Manager – Direct Materials
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- 无锡市, 江苏
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Operations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor degree or above in Supply Chain, Life Sciences, Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmacy or related disciplines.
- 10+ years of procurement, sourcing or category management experience, with Minimum 5 years of strategic sourcing/category management experience in: Biopharma, Pharmaceutical, CDMO/CMO, Biotechnology r
- Proven experience managing strategic suppliers and multi-million-dollar categories.
- Demonstrated achievement in complex commercial negotiations and long-term agreements.
Nice to have
- Global category management experience.
- Experience managing critical biologics manufacturing materials.
- Experience working in matrix and multinational environments.
- APICS, CIPS, CPSM, CPPM, PMP qualification
- Six Sigma or similar certification
Full description
Job Summary
- The Global Category Associate Director is accountable for the development and execution of global category strategies for assigned direct material categories across all WuXi Biologics sites worldwide.
- This role acts as the global category owner responsible for supplier strategy, commercial excellence, supply assurance, risk management and stakeholder alignment. The position will collaborate closely with regional/site procurement teams to ensure consistent implementation of category strategies while balancing global standardization and local business requirements.
- The role is expected to lead strategic supplier relationships and drive long-term value creation through supplier partnerships, demand aggregation, commercial optimization, supply resilience and innovation.
- The role may manage one or more strategic categories.
Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesGlobal Category Strategy
- Develop and maintain multi-year global category strategies for assigned material categories.
- Conduct category segmentation, supply market intelligence and category risk assessments.
- Define category priorities aligned with business growth, global manufacturing expansion and supply resilience objectives.
- Drive category standardization and platform material deployment across global sites.
- Establish preferred supplier and approved supplier strategies.
Strategic Supplier Management
- Own executive-level relationships with strategic suppliers.
- Build One Supplier Governance framework across regions and sites.
- Lead Joint Business Planning (JBP) with key suppliers.
- Develop supplier capability roadmaps
- Support global supplier segmentation and governance programs.
Commercial Excellence & Cost Competitiveness
- Lead commercial negotiations for: Global pricing agreements / Long-term contracts / Global MSA / Capacity reservation agreements
- Drive demand bundling and volume leverage across sites.
- Develop cost transparency and cost breakdown analysis.
- Identify and execute cost optimization opportunities.
- Benchmark global pricing and supplier competitiveness.
Supply Assurance & Risk Management
- Build category supply risk management framework.
- Develop dual-source and localization strategies for critical materials. Monitor: Single source exposure / Sole source exposure / Geographic concentration risk / Geopolitical risk / Capacity constraints
- Establish mitigation plans for critical supply risks.
- Support enterprise risk management initiatives.
Global Stakeholder Management
- Partner with: Manufacturing / MSAT / Process Development / Quality / Supply Chain / Finance / Legal / Global Site Leadership