【マッキンゼー・アンド・カンパニー】Sourcing Operations Manager
仕事内容
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You’ll build, lead, coach, and develop a team of sourcing experts. You will be tasked with driving high-impact strategic sourcing events (RFx events and Direct Negotiations) of varying spend, risk levels, and complexity across all of our firm’s critical indirect categories, such as Technology, People [HR Benefits, Learning, Recruiting, etc.], Professional Services, Facilities Management, etc. Additionally, you will be responsible for designing innovative sourcing strategies and leading your team as they strive to deliver the best products, services, or solutions at the best value while protecting our firm from risk.
You’ll also leverage your deep expertise across Indirect Categories to co-create and execute self-led Sourcing Events with innovative sourcing strategies for complex and high-value purchases with category managers and business unit stakeholders within Japan, across the Asia region, and potentially at the global level.
You’ll spearhead the local procurement transformation journey to ensure that local demands are managed in compliance with the team's global policy. You'll also devise creative solutions to address potential capacity challenges and ensure the team focuses on delivering high impact through strategic sourcing events.
You’ll have the opportunity to think-partner and co-create innovative sourcing solutions with internal clients and Optimize collaborators (examples: Category Leaders, Purchasing, Purchasing Operations, Legal Procurement, Suppliers, etc.) to deliver exceptional sourcing strategies and sourcing experiences. You’ll also build strong relationships and partner with our regional sourcing managers so our colleagues have consistent sourcing experiences.
You’ll contribute to the global responsible sourcing vision, strategies, and priorities, including driving forward the sourcing workstream within our ‘Make responsible buying easy’ transformation. This will include moving the development and delivery of a holistic and seamless source-to-pay process that supports our ESG goals and risk principles.
You’ll have the opportunity to drive the development and implementation of world-class sourcing processes, principles, and KPIs for each category, identify and deploy technologies that can digitize and automate these sourcing processes, and develop a transparent, sustainable governance model for the sourcing practice.
応募資格(必須経験など)
Qualifications
University degree and excellent academic record required; advanced degree preferred
8+ years in a professional business environment with at least five years of relevant Sourcing experience required
Excellent people leadership skills – you are an outstanding people leader who attracts and develops a group of highly talented colleagues
Deep Strategic Sourcing knowledge across multiple standard indirect categories that deliver excellent Sourcing Strategies
Deep expertise in Sourcing Steps and Processes (examples Conducting Spend Analysis, Clean Sheet, Total Cost of Ownership and Cost Breakdown Analysis, Sourcing Strategy Development, Product/ Services Requirements and features Mapping, RFP Excellence, Business Case development, and outstanding ability to Negotiate); knowledge of technology solutions that digitize and automate Sourcing Processes is highly valued
Procurement transformation experience within a global organization is highly valued
Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills, with the ability to quickly articulate creative, practical solutions
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in both English and Japanese, with the ability to work across functions at all organizational levels
Excellent ability to apply experience and knowledge to transformational improvements, influence others with knowledge and skills, and demonstrate outstanding change management, project management, and communication skills
Experience influencing senior leadership in a consensus-based culture, able to drive change, meet deadlines, and inspire confidence among senior leadership
Excellent prioritization and time management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and ambiguous situations effectively
Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint