Global Category Manager – Direct Materials

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 Responsibilities

Global 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
• Balance global category strategies with regional operational requirements.
• Lead cross-functional strategic sourcing projects.

Governance & Performance Management

• Establish category KPIs and governance mechanisms.
• Monitor and report: Cost savings / Supply assurance / Supplier performance / Contract coverage / Dual sourcing coverage / Risk mitigation progress
• Support procurement transformation and process standardization initiatives.

Requirements：

• 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 related industries
• Proven experience managing strategic suppliers and multi-million-dollar categories.
• Demonstrated achievement in complex commercial negotiations and long-term agreements.

Preferred

• 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