Summary
- Salary
- Competitive
- Team
- Procurement
- Location
- Japan - Tokyo Office
About Us
Dyson is a global technology enterprise. We solve the problems others choose to ignore, with surprising new inventions that defy convention and simply work better. We’re growing fast and our ambition is huge - more categories, more locations, and more people.
We push the boundaries of what others have defined as possible. Our approach starts with an engineering mindset and different thinking. Then we continuously refine our ideas - unwilling to compromise and driven by an obsession for finding a better way.
About the Role
Lead and coordinate the procurement activity on a country level.
Drive procurement value contribution and excellent service while ensuring compliance with policies and processes.
Implement procurement strategy and plan.
Contribute to vendor selection, cost saving and process optimization.
Report savings and optimizations.
Manage procurement system - ARIBA, with central procurement department.
Strategy and Sourcing
Strategy development and execution of the indirect categories such as marketing/sales service, professional service, logistics, HR and travel, etc.
Manage competitive bidding processes and leading negotiations with vendors to achieve or exceed agreed saving targets
Continually monitoring compliance across the indirect spend and driving corrective action as necessary.
Helping to develop a supply base to build the capacity and capability to deliver Dyson’s business’ requirements in Japan.
Supporting Dyson’s supplier management and corporate, social and environmental standards programmes within the supply base.
Spend analysis and saving potential findings.
Set economic and/or qualitative targets for each procurement action.
Customers / Stakeholders
Directly engage with stakeholders in the business and develop working relationships with them to ensure appropriate challenge to the business.
Engage with fellow team members in APAC and within the wider Global Indirect Procurement Team to keep them appraised of project progress.
Work with colleagues in the Global team to ensure we deploy the best knowledge into our procurement approach.
Work with Legal, Internal Controls, Cyber security, Privacy, Finance and other functions within Japan and more broadly at Dyson locations in the UK and Singapore to ensure risk and compliance are managed within the supply base.
Educate the Global team on the nuances of the market in Japan to ensure Global initiatives reflect Japan requirements.
Operational Effectiveness & Control
Deliver a pipeline of projects to achieve or exceed agreed savings target.
Ensure category and project data (savings, pipeline, milestones, risks, issues, taxonomy) is accurate and reflective of reality
Manage expenses analysis.
Supplier performance monitoring process development and manage relationship with key vendors.
Contract Management.
Operate and guide ARIBA modules, both upstream and downstream, with procurement team at HQ and procurement operation team in DBS.
Contribute to the internal communication, procurement projects, referenced suppliers, terms & conditions and procurement guideline. Ensure quality of content and compliance with relevant sourcing / procurement rules and category planning governance
About You
Education
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
Experience
Minimum 8-10 years’ experience in procurement field and in operating expenses control with proven ability to develop and deliver strategic vision, clear understanding of indirect procurement management and experienced in best practices, tools, process.
Demonstrable experience of supplier relationship management
Working experiences for the medium or large size of the foreign affiliated company.
Experience of working with international teams in a global business
Specific experience in media and marketing procurement is preferred.
Skills
Fluent level Japanese & Business level English.
Strong communication and complex negotiation skills.
Good interpersonal skills, which encourage the communications among the team.
Strategic thinking on procurement directions and rich in new approaches.
Good numeracy and analytical skills
Good organizational skills with an ability to work to strict deadlines.
Good numeracy and analytical skills
Good knowledge or experiences with ARIBA is plus.
Microsoft Office skill, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Experience in general affairs is plus.
Competencies
Able to work in diverse environments and adhere to highest ethical standards.
Comfortable in a dynamic, fast-paced, challenging environment
Demonstrates personal energy, productivity, encouraging good resilience in others
Demonstrate a strong team ethic but also be willing to take initiative and to assume responsibility
Identifies and raises opportunities and/or challenges
Commercially astute and with a strong eye for detail
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Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.
