Job description / Role
About Us Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok and Helo as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content. Why Join Us Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible. Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. To us, every challenge, no matter how ambiguous, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. Join us. About the Team The Global Procurement Team plays a critical role in the business and is responsible for the strategy design and end-to-end processes involved in the purchase of goods and services in a sustainable and financially viable way in compliance with business standards. The Global Procurement Team is responsible for sourcing and onboarding of new vendors, supporting the development of key company systems and processes, maintaining a strategic overview of project procurement management activities and ensuring that purchasing contracts and arrangements are fulfilled in strict accordance with legal requirements, project requirements, and business policies and procedures. This is an exciting opportunity to take a key role within a growing regional Procurement function and in the context of a fast-paced environment in the tech/social media sector. All the Global Procurement Team and associated Centre of Excellence will support the onboarding of this new role and share best practices, procurement strategies, insights on compliance to deliver collectively as one team. Our Procurement function keeps developing and we regularly meet for workshops and trainings to share cross teams, cross countries and have full alignment as one team.
Responsibilities
• Responsible for METAP and other regional catering service procurement projects, including but not limited to employee canteen operation service outsourcing, snacks, event meal, pantry design, kitchen equipment and other various catering solutions. Responsible for vendor qualification, selection, contract negotiation, vendor management, supplier daily operation management, PO processing & payment coordination and other Sourcing-to-Pay procurement support.
• In-depth understanding of market dynamics and regional logistics team's requirement. Provide timely and cost-effective solutions with good service level.
• Continuously improve supplier sourcing, selection, evaluation, bidding, management and elimination mechanisms to ensure the establishment of a competitive and high-quality supplier pool that meets the Corporate's pace of development.
• Align with the Corporate's overall procurement strategy and catering category strategy, and deploy these strategies to procurement practices. Feedback the industry/legal norms and other special requirements to Corporate for various strategies optimization.
• Work closely and efficiently with internal and external stakeholders, maintain good relationship and ensure that internal stakeholders could be responded to in a timely manner and exceed their expectations.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree or above.
• More than five years of procurement experience, with three years of experience sourcing in related categories or indirect sourcing experience.
• Excellent procurement professional knowledge and communication skills (procurement strategy, project management, negotiation and contract, cost control, supplier management, procurement process management, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in high-tech leading companies with a global background.
• Experience and resources in indirect sourcing in overseas catering industries.
• Those who have obtained professional certificates such as PMP, CIPS and CPSM are preferred.
About the Company
TikTok is the world's leading destination for short-form video. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Our employees lead with curiosity, and move at the speed of culture. Combined with our company's flat structure, you'll be given dynamic opportunities to make a real impact on a rapidly expanding company as you grow your career. We have offices across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas – and we're just getting started.