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Ian
Manufacturing
Purchasing
General Summary: Ian is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in purchasing management. He has worked with renowned multinational companies and has spent four years overseas in the United Kingdom and Norway. Ian is recognized as a subject matter expert in his field, with a rich background in global category management, global business unit purchasing, product line purchasing, project purchasing, and best cost country sourcing. He has recently ventured into entrepreneurship, starting a business consulting company. His notable achievements include receiving Group Excellence Awards from SKF Group for outstanding achievements in driving purchasing cost down.
Previous Experience: Ian has held senior leadership roles in both group purchasing organizations and China purchasing organizations. His responsibilities have spanned across various aspects of purchasing management, including global category management, global business unit purchasing, product line purchasing, project purchasing, and best cost country sourcing. He has also worked extensively in best cost country sourcing. Ian's achievements in these roles are highlighted by his receipt of the Group Excellence Awards from SKF Group for his exceptional ability to drive down purchasing costs.
Leadership Style: Ian's leadership style is characterized by his ability to drive continuous improvement in overall purchasing cost control, purchasing management systems, and supplier quality management systems. He leverages a full value chain and Total Cost Ownership approach, along with risk controls, to enhance market competitiveness. His leadership has been recognized with Group Excellence Awards from SKF Group.
Education: Ian is an alumnus of the Shanghai Institute of Building Materials, which has since merged into Tongji University. He majored in industrial automation. Further, he has received training from the European Institute of Purchasing Management (EIPM), adding to his expertise in purchasing management.
Personal Information: Apart from his professional pursuits, Ian has shown a keen interest in entrepreneurship. He has recently started a business consulting company, where he aims to work with customers to improve their market competitiveness. His approach involves driving continuous improvement in overall purchasing cost control, purchasing management system, and supplier quality management system with a full value chain and Total Cost Ownership approach, and risks controls.
Chinese - Mandarin, English - UK
Manufacturing, Oil & Gas
Purchasing, Engineering
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Business growth in a highly competitive market, Business/Organizational Restructuring, Strategy and planning, marketing communication, consulting, Developing organizational culture
Demonstrates Forward Thinking, Makes Decisions, Embraces Change, Solves Problems, Influences Others, Displays Courage, Values Diversity, Shows Curiosity
Developing cultural sensitivities:
With experiences of working for multi-national companies for 20 years, and heading a multi-national team of nearly 40 team members in various continents, Ian has been able to apply his understanding of cultural differences to work in harmony with colleagues and suppliers from various countries.
Developing strategic vision:
Working in various senior purchasing roles in global purchasing organization, Ian has developed the knowledge and skills to build strategic visions in alignment with Customer satisfaction and business strategies. He understands that, to set a strategic vision to achieve overall purchasing cost control, it is a must to have full value approach, TCO approach and very close collaboration with other functional teams with foundation of effective and efficient organizations and processes.
Driving negotiations:
With long experience in purchasing and sales, Ian has learnt negotiation preparation, skills and practices are extremely important. But Ian wants to highlight that overall supply market study, Should Cost analysis and back up suppliers’ readiness are actually the most effective and powerful way to enhance leverages, and must be integrated into the negotiation planning and preparation!
Driving organization change:
Ian had experienced a number of rounds of purchasing organizational changes, from regional to central, from category drive to business driven, from global back to regional . Ian has his insights into the advantages and the disadvantages of different purchasing organizational structures, and has found effective and efficient ways to work with the Full Value Chain team to adapt quickly to organization changes, and drive organization changes towards the Customer satisfaction, the best level of collaboration, the highest efficiency, and the best business results.
SKF
Schlumberger
Shanghai Junyi Business Consulting
Tongji University
Tongji University
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