Director, Materials APAC
About us: Stanley 1913 - Built for Life® since 1913. The Stanley 1913 brand has fueled the human experience since the iconic Stanley vacuum bottle revolutionized the way people enjoyed food and beverage. Today, our colorful and thoughtfully designed products including the popular Quencher™ series go beyond function, elevating everyday moments with style and empowering active lifestyles. We’re a community of creators, builders, and inventors who believe in creating sustainable products for a better life and world that minimizes our impact on the planet. Learn more at www.stanley1913.com. Position Overview: Build direct relationships with material vendors to create a Preferred Vendor List (PSL) that leverages overall spending, improved quality, delivery, and compliance to strategic goals. Develop partnerships with source factories to improve operational performance on raw material purchases. Supports material development schedules. Strong relationship with product creation to enable and drive vendor innovation, identifying new vendor needs and timely onboarding to support new product development. Leads Kanban, pull processing, Lean, and vendor guidelines with materials vendors. What You'll Do Establishes a process to measure and report global demand for materials and components to meet the Brands’ finished product needs, including demands coming from contract factories. Develops understanding of global vendor base to ensure growth plans can be reasonably met. Participates in internal development, sourcing and costing teams to negotiate costs on materials and components. Deploy a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) strategy for all commodities including vendor guidelines and ensure that all factory specifications conform to the PSL. Lead material spend-analytics and commodity indexing process to help develop an overall material sourcing strategy that supports new product introduction, supplier consolidation, process standardization, material cost reduction, transaction cost removal, and process digitization that meets the strategic plan goals. Drive average 3-5% productivity targets on cost reduction utilizing different strategies and in partnership with vendor partners. Deploy dual-source and localization strategies to drive spend with preferred suppliers and in the local country of manufacture. Develops a global vendor certification process in partnership with quality. Works with Development, and Sourcing to implement processes to maintain a current vendor and materials database, approve new vendors, and terminate non-conforming vendors. Develops a Vendor Report Card system to monitor vendor performance, and to create an ongoing communication regarding improvement needs. Leads efforts to implement Kanban, “pull” systems, and reduced lead-time programs between vendors and contract manufacturers. Supports continuous quality improvement methodologies between vendors an...