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e.l.f. Beauty

Associate Manager, Category Sourcing

Shanghai, China · Full Time · Posted Jul 15, 2025

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  • 1.   Category Strategy Development and Implementation
  • Identify opportunities to optimize cost and increase perceived value to improve gross margin.
  • Develop Category Sourcing Strategy as a guideline of cross functions to work out their strategy and priorities.
  • Lead or coordinate cross-functional teams and suppliers to well implement strategy.

  • 2.   Process Excellence & Relationship Management
  • Optimize sourcing process to standardize and improve ways of working internally & externally.
  • To perfect Supplier Relationship Management in company level per definition of Sourcing Strategy.

  • 3.   Open Innovation & Supply Market Intelligence
  • Dig out internal business needs and leverage suppliers’ innovation capability as an engine to support business growth.
  • Close to supply market and bring supply market & industry intelligence to support business growth.

  • 4.   Supplier & Risk Management
  • Assess supplier performance and take effective actions to improve with support from cross-functional teams.
  • Continually develop suppliers in other countries to diversify current supplier base.
  • With industry sensitivity to foresee potential delivery risk and cost headwind and take effective solutions to secure production & protect company profits.
  • Job Requirement:

  •  Degree:Bachelor or above;MBA is a plus.
  •  English level:excellent
  • 5+ years of strategic or commodity sourcing experience in FMCG multi-national corporation.
  • Experienced to develop Category Sourcing Strategy.
  • With experience of Raw Material.
  • Successfully developed or managed oversea supplier base.
  • Successfully worked as a project leader to manage big projects across departments by proven project management skills and influence skills.

  • Source: e.l.f. Beauty careers