Insider profil
Top Insider Advice
The only thing that will never change is change. The key to face change and challenge is to enhance the tenacity and resilience for yourself. Be positive, open, flexible, and having the right attitude will bring you a very successful career. Having a growth mindset can help you overcome the obstacles, understand the importance of persistence and determination. To reach or maximize your potential, learn from the mistakes, be responsive to criticism, and face challenges positively, which allows you to explore, experience and achieve more in your life.
Career path
Regional Sourcing Manager for Hardware & Electrical
Kingfisher Plc
From 07/2023 to 07/2024Product Sourcing Manager
Kingfisher (Shanghai) Sourcing Consultancy Limited
From 05/2013 to 07/2023Business Development Manager
Beijing Yishengleju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
From 07/2011 to 05/2013Company
What do you like about your job and the company?
As being a Product Sourcing Manager, I’m really enjoying working with different parties internally and externally. I’m participating in exciting projects and product development. Negotiation is quite challenging under the tough market circumstance. But when you work progressively, you can fell the sense of fulfillment and achievement, especially with the support from colleagues globally. From my personality perspective, I’d like to face different challenges and this position can fulfil my willingness, in terms of vendor management, product development, negotiations, etc.
Greatest achievements
In recent Employee Engagement Survey, my team achieved the score above the benchmarking, especially for the question with the highest score of “My manager provides me with the support I need to complete my work”. I have received the high recognition from line manager, appreciation from co-workers in terms of contribution, dedication, and engagement. I’m proud of the team achievement and hard-working spirit. The team has won the company annual award in past several years, e.g. “Collaboration” award in 2021.
Isabelle P
GROUP SUPPLY SPECIALIST
Top Insider Advice
The best advice that I can give you is to be true to your values during the interview. Like everywhere, a company is above all made up of people so be yourself and think about the people you are meeting and potentially working with as well as the job itself. If you are not hired after an interview, it means that this role is may not have been the right one, but the right one will come along. Keep believing in you and your capabilities and never give up!
Konrad K
Sourcing quality engineer
Top Insider Advice
There are better and worse days in my job, but each of them can be considered a success when you work in a close-knit team with people who know what to do. Working in a purchasing office involves a lot of dynamics and decision-making under time pressure. In such a situation, teamwork is the key to success. I see my daily work as a quality engineer as a challenge - new experiences, new people, and unusual problems. There are days when achieving new goals is easy, but there are also moments when every step is bought with a lot of effort. My most important advice for 'beginners': Work with people you can rely on. Set yourself goals that you are capable of achieving. Build good relationships with suppliers.
Kate F
Design Research Manager
Top Insider Advice
I came from a heavy scientific background, making unnatural amino acids in the lab (which are all white crystals!) to a world of colour and possibility in food development, and felt really out of my depth. The change to industry was challenging, there were targets and KPIs and OKRs and all the other acronyms! And so many people to work with, challenge, influence... I then went to a retail environment where I felt out of my depth again initially, the pace was faster, there was less thinking time and quant evidence was king. I learned more about myself and decided after a few years to challenge myself again and go to the digital world. I've had a constant thread - understanding customers, employees, users - though the context and environment has shifted every time. And that's a good thing! Don't be afraid to jump at an opportunity, you will always learn something and it will benefit you.