1. Education
• Research Master of Economics & Business 2009 ~ 2011
---- Operations Management & Operations Research
• MSc. /Business Administration 2008 ~ 2009
---- Operations & Supply Chains
• BSc./ Business Studies 2005 ~ 2008
---- International Business & Management
Work Experience
Contract Manager / DSM Coating Resins Sept. 2011~ present
• Strategic Purchasing: work in cross-functional team to create and implement purchasing strategy for responsible raw
material package; Support buyers to draft Preparation For Negotiation; Create Account Plan for identified strategic
supplier.
• Operational Purchasing: Spend mapping; Support buyers on volume allocation; Work with SAP and MDM/RA for
vendor data management and REACH compliance; Work with site call-off to handle delivery complaint.
• Process: Work with Finance on price forecasting and SAP costing; Work with Legal to draft and review commercial
contract; Responsible for KPI and other management reporting; Edit monthly purchasing market intelligence newslet-
ter.
• Business: Support buyers on commercial negotiation of Acrylate (BA, EA, 2-EHA, GAA, UV monomers) and Organic
Acids (PTA, PIA, AdipIc, HHPA, TMA).
• Programme: Data analyst for Business Interruption Risk Assessment; Coordinate buyers to create and implement risk
mitigation plan for single sourced raw materials.
• Project: Align with various internal stakeholders to achieve one way of working on Costing and Pricing report via an
automated IT platform.
• Team work: Work in a multinational team (8 people); report to EU Purchasing Manager; Support the global purchasing
team on reporting, analysis as well as commercials of the responsible material package.
Intern Strategic Procurement / Astellas Pharma Sept. 2010 ~ Jan. 2011
• Supplier evaluation: benchmark existing suppliers of pharmaceutical packaging artwork and identified cost optimiza-
tion solutions; Process improvement: analyzed the internal workflow efficiency and provided optimization sugges-
tions.
Intern Global Sourcing / WAVIN Mar. 2009 ~ Aug. 2009
• Performed supply market research to evaluate global sourcing opportunities in 25 low-cost countries based on TCO
principle; Developed KPIs in 5 areas and gathered corresponding data for supply market analysis;
Training
Negotiation Tactics (by Purspective); Strategic Sourcing Methodology (SSM); Supplier Development Program (SDP);
Key Supplier Management (KSM); Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP1)
Zhida Xu
Gender: Male; Born on: 28-10-1985
Mobile: 0031613181388 Email: zhida.xu.int@gmail.com
Obrechtstraat 289, 8031 AT, Zwolle, The Netherlands
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