Capex Country Manager

China - Shanghai - RHQ
Purchasing and Transportation
Laboratory, Procurement

Posted on 13-03-2024

About Umicore

Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Powering the cars of the future. Giving new life to used metals. We are the leading circular materials technology company fulfilling its mission to create materials for a better life. With ambitions like this, imagine what you could do?

About Support Functions

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our support functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

What you will be doing

• Implement Procurement as a strategic partner to the BU’s
• Deliver on all Procurement and Contract Management objectives (HSE, Quality, Schedule, Cost) for the entire Capex Country project pipeline
• Strictly follow Corporate Procurement Process and BU Capex management procedure
• Ensure full compliance with procurement procedures, and initiate improvement to these procedures where required with regards to Capex project efficiency and effectiveness.
• Pro-actively plan team mobilization for Procurement and Contract Management, and plan for a long term view and optimal use of local and global resources
• Optimize the use of Procurement staff from external contractors, maintaining accountability at the side of Umicore (strategic and critical decisions)
• Optimal use of the global Umicore Procurement and Engineering network, in order to achieve maximum leverage towards the external market, and develop and or implement category strategies accordingly.
• Actively seek out alignment with stakeholders to drive forward procurement objectives and implementation of identified best known practices
• Maintain the right balance on HSE, Quality, Schedule and Cost as defined by BU objectives, and reflect this balance in project strategies and contract award decisions
• Review and/or Approve all contract award decisions as BU’s LAM.
• Act as coach for the team with regards to critical contracting issues, expediting and claim issues
• Act as PPM (Project Procurement Manager) as BU or Team’s request, to conduct all purchasing/commercial related things, incl, but not limited in strategy definition, bidder list proposal, new vendor development and pre-qualification, PO/Contract negotiation, Supplier/Contractor performance evaluation, Payment proceeding or approval, solve issues raised during project execution, etc.
• Execute and monitor the added value initiatives.
• Manage local/regional capex purchasing team whom reports to
• Synergistic cooperation with APAC capex purchasing team
• Take a strategic and long term view in identifying and developing innovative sources and contractual arrangements, and establish the targets in alignment with global Capex team and internal Clients
• Join force with P&T category team and/or internal client for local sourcing and project execution
• Participate in regular or irregular meeting/workshop/discussion to maintain global capex category work as regional representative

Who we are looking for

• Functional Requirement
• Bachelor or Master degree (engineering/chemical/electrical/…) or equivalent by experience.
• Substantial professional experience in Chemical industrial projects procurement in WOFE (> 10 years)
• Good communication/presentation skill
• Excellent English is an absolute necessity
• Frequent Travel is necessary (20-25% time/month)
• Shor or Long term allocation is possible
• SAP Ariba application
• Personal skills
• Performance and result oriented, internal customer oriented, strives for continuous improvement
• Analytical & conceptual thinking and decision making; strong project and risk management skills
• Exemplary behaviour towards ethics and integrity
• Strong communicator and interpersonal impact (influencing and persuading)
• Teamwork, collaboration & flexibility

What we offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?

If our pioneering approach can make us a leader in sustainability.