Sourcing specialist

Key Responsibilities

• New Supplier Sourcing & Development: Source and qualify reliable suppliers for medical device and IVD product components, including mechanical parts, plastic housings, electronic components, PCB boards, packaging materials.
• Cost Negotiation & Cost-Down Management: Conduct RFQ collection, price comparison, technical and commercial negotiation. Responsible for annual cost-down projects, BOM cost optimization and overall material cost control to achieve company cost targets.
• Supplier Qualification & Audit: Support supplier qualification review, document verification and on-site audit. Validate supplier ISO 13485 compliance to ensure all suppliers meet medical industry quality and regulatory requirements.
• NPI New Product Sourcing Support: Participate in design review, material selection and supplier evaluation during the R&D phase. Support sample sourcing, prototype verification, pilot run and smooth mass production handover for new medical products.
• Supplier Performance Management: Regularly evaluate supplier performance in quality, delivery, service and cost. Maintain supplier rating system, optimize supplier pool and phase out unqualified vendors.
• Supply Chain Optimization & Localization: Promote material localization, second-source development and alternative material validation to mitigate single-source risks and improve supply chain stability.
• Compliance & Document Control: Manage complete and traceable sourcing records, quotation documents, audit reports and project files in accordance with medical quality system requirements.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Coordinate with suppliers and internal teams to resolve quality issues, delivery delays, engineering changes and material substitution problems, ensuring stable mass production operation.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or related disciplines.
• 1–3 years of sourcing experience in medical device, IVD or precision machinery industry; outstanding fresh graduates are also acceptable.
• Familiar with the sourcing process of mechanical processing parts, injection molded parts, hardware, electronic components and medical consumables.
• Basic knowledge of ISO 13485 quality system, supplier audit procedures and NPI processes.
• Familiar with RFQ negotiation, cost analysis, supplier development and supplier evaluation workflows.
• Good English reading and writing skills, capable of reading English technical documents .
• Proficient in Excel; SAP system operating experience is preferred.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and logical thinking abilities, with proactive working attitude and strong execution.
• Meticulous and rigorous working style with good risk awareness to control sourcing quality and compliance risks.