Director Procument Sourcing

Your role

Key responsibilities in your new role

• Set the China sourcing agenda: Define and execute a multi-year China sourcing roadmap aligned with global category strategies, business requirements, technology roadmaps, and Infineon’s localization priorities.

• Lead the team: Build, coach, and develop a high-performing sourcing team; set objectives, allocate resources, manage performance, strengthen succession, and foster an inclusive, accountable culture.

• Build market intelligence: Establish a fact-based view of China supply markets, technology trends, cost structures, capacity, financial health, geopolitical exposure, and emerging suppliers; maintain categoryl and scapes and a pre-qualified supplier pipeline.

• Deliver sourcing projects: Lead complex RFQ, cost modelling, negotiations, contracting, and award recommendations for materials, equipment, spare parts, and services across relevant procurement categories.

• Strengthen resilience: Drive dual- and multi-sourcing, localization, business continuity, capacity assurance, and risk-mitigation plans for critical supply chains.

• Develop suppliers: Drive supplier ecosystem development, localization, resilience, and cost competitiveness. Establish senior-level relationships with strategic suppliers and drive measurable improvement in quality, cost, delivery, technology, sustainability, service, and responsiveness.

• Govern the portfolio: Maintain transparent project pipelines, milestones, business cases, risks, decisions, and escalations; ensureclear ownership through effective RACI and review routines.

• Manage stakeholders: Represent China sourcing in local, regional, and global procurement forums; align competing priorities and communicate recommendations to senior management.

• Ensure compliance: Conduct all sourcing and market-intelligence activities in accordance with Infineon policies and applicable legal, antitrust, export-control, sanctions, information-security, intellectual-property, sustainability, and ethical requirements.

• Drive continuous improvement: Improve sourcing methods, digital tools, data quality, reporting, and cross-category knowledge sharing; transfer successful China sourcing practices across the global organization.

Your profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

• University degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Economics, or a comparable discipline; advanced degree is an advantage.

• Typically 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement engineering, supplier development, or supply-chain management in an international industrial environment.

• Demonstrated people-leadership experience and a strong record of leading cross-functional, cross-cultural teams through influence.

• Strong knowledge of China supplier markets and manufacturing ecosystems; semiconductor, electronics, automotive, equipment,materials, or other high-technology industry experience is preferred.

• Proven success in complex negotiations, should-cost or cost-structureanalysis, contracting, supplier qualification, localization, and risk management.

• Ability to convert market insights and business needs into prioritized roadmaps, robust business cases, and measurable results.

• Sound understanding of quality systems, supplier audits, business continuity, sustainability, intellectual-property protection, antitrust, export-control, and trade-compliance considerations.

• Strong analytical and digital capability; confident use of procurement, ERP, reporting, and collaboration tools.

• Fluent English and Mandarin Chinese, with excellent written, verbal, presentation, and senior stakeholder communication skills.

• Willingness to travel within China and internationally as business needs require.

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sunny.wang@infineon.cn