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Location:
- This role is based in Shenzhen, China and requires you to work onsite 4 days per week, with 1 day remote.
- To be considered, you must live within commuting distance, as regular in-person collaboration is a key part of the role.
Role Summary
BDA is seeking a Sr. Director, Global Strategic Sourcing — China to lead and elevate our sourcing execution strategy from our China location in support of our global sourcing efforts. This role will be responsible for building, developing, and leading a high-performing sourcing team while expanding supplier networks, improving vendor performance, strengthening manufacturing readiness, and driving sourcing excellence across cost, quality, compliance, scalability, speed, and innovation.
This leader will play a critical role in optimizing BDA's global sourcing capabilities by identifying business improvement opportunities, developing supplier improvement roadmaps, assessing manufacturing capabilities, and ensuring supplier partners can support BDA's standards for product quality, regulatory compliance, and client delivery. The ideal candidate brings deep sourcing leadership experience in China, strong vendor negotiation and supplier development expertise, and the ability to partner cross-functionally with sourcing, quality assurance, operations, product, and business leaders.
This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for someone who can combine strategic sourcing vision with hands-on execution, helping BDA continue to deliver innovative, compliant, cost-effective, and high-quality custom product solutions for our clients.
Core / Key Responsibilities
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing sourcing execution team, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous learning, operational discipline, and improvement.
- Identify business optimization opportunities and drive sourcing excellence through global industry knowledge, vendor negotiation, resourcing strategy, cost benchmarking, and supplier performance insights.
- Drive continual improvement and innovation across sourcing activities, including vendor management, cost engineering, portfolio optimization, value optimization, supplier governance, and process efficiency.
- Evaluate manufacturing readiness by conducting supplier capability assessments, identifying production risks, and developing supplier improvement roadmaps.
- Drive scalability, speed, agility, and resource optimization across the sourcing execution model and supplier network.
- Expand and strengthen supplier networks across China while proactively identifying, assessing, and sharing relevant industry trends, product innovation, supplier capabilities, and market opportunities.
- Ensure supplier compliance with product manufacturing standards, product safety standards, regulatory requirements, and applicable FDA, USDA, international equivalents, and other consumer product compliance expectations.
- Apply knowledge of Consumer-Packaged Goods supply chain dynamics to optimize sourcing decisions, supplier selection, production planning, quality expectations, and risk mitigation.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with sourcing, vendors, quality assurance, product, operations, merchandising, sales, and business leaders to improve tools, processes, handoffs, and operational efficiency.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 15 years China-based manufacturing and sourcing/ supply chain experience
- A. Business Administration or equivalent
- Strong supplier negotiation, vendor management, cost benchmarking/engineering, and supplier performance management experience.
- Proven experience building, leading, and developing high-performing sourcing, procurement, supplier management, or supply chain teams.
- Experience evaluating manufacturing readiness, conducting supplier capability assessments, identifying production risks, and building supplier improvement roadmaps.
- Strong understanding of supplier compliance, product manufacturing standards, product safety standards, regulatory requirements, and Code of Conduct.
- Experience working with FDA, USDA, international regulatory equivalents, and/or consumer product safety standards.
- Knowledge of Consumer-Packaged Goods, product-based supply chains, custom product manufacturing, retail, merchandising, or related product environments.
- P&L ownership/experience
Requirements
- Strong aptitudes for observation, analysis, design, and implementation of materials management process and control
- Strong Leadership skills and ability to develop and communicate vision
- Superior ability to educate, delegate and motivate direct reports
- Independent problem-solving expertise, with tenacious enthusiasm to meet goals with a sense of urgency
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with coworkers, vendors and internal customers and present to external clients
- Ability to recognize and act upon trend information
- Expertise in various business technology programs
- Self-Motivator and Detail Oriented
- Proven autonomy through high responsibility and result driven planning
Why Join BDA
BDA is a global leader in merchandise, branding, and custom product solutions, partnering with some of the world's most recognized brands to create meaningful moments and memorable experiences. This role offers the opportunity to directly influence the strength, scalability, innovation, and compliance of BDA's sourcing engine in China.
As the Sr. Director, Global Strategic Sourcing — China, you will help shape supplier strategy, elevate vendor performance, improve sourcing execution, strengthen manufacturing readiness, and support BDA's continued growth through smarter, faster, and more compliant sourcing practices. This is a strong opportunity for a sourcing leader who enjoys building teams, improving processes, developing supplier partnerships, and making a measurable impact across a global business.
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We are pleased to share the base salary range for this position is ¥750,000-¥800,000 RMB with additional opportunities in a company/performance Bonus. If you are hired at BDA, your compensation will be determined based on factors that may include geographic location, skills, education, and experience. In addition to these factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any offer. In the spirit of pay transparency, the range listed is the full base salary range for the role and hiring at the top of the range would not be typical, in order to allow for future salary growth. The range listed is just one component of BDA's total compensation and rewards programs, which includes: robust PTO; vacation, a paid volunteer day, holidays and summer Fridays, Benefits; medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance, 401k; tuition reimbursement, mental health and financial wellness programs and professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement. Certain revenue-generating positions may be eligible for incentive compensation.
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