Janice Chan CV 2024 v1 Updated
Janice Chan CV 2024 v1 Updated
Executive Summary
Strong in IT Procurement, Commodity Management, Sourcing strategy, Supply Chain
Management, Data Management & Risk Management, Environmental sustainability (ESG),
Change management and Leadership.
Over 25 + years of Commodity management experience, working at Sourcing & Procurement,
Supply Chain, Quality Assuance, and Planning prospective for the world’s largest Multinational
companies for OEM, Contract manufacturing, IT & Data related (Cloud & AI) procurement. Also
have extensive experience working with suppliers on ESG requirement.
Expert at end to end procurement process from Strategic sourcing to RFQ/Tender process till
PR/PO release. Strong at process improvement while enforcing conformance and corporate
governance.
Being positive, ethical, self-driven, independent, result oriented, problem solver with high
integrity. Good at communication & leading small /core teams.
As a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and trained in LEAP management. JIT models.
Drive strategic supplier relationship, commodity strategies and drive total cost of ownership.
- Strategic sourcing and end to end procurement process
- Early engagement in new products development (NPI) with Engineering and suppliers.
- Contract Management, T&C and MPA/SLA Negotiation
- Transform business process and supply chain operations excellence
- Work closely with ESG team for supplier Green initiative and sustainability sourcing and
supplier mgt
- Key supplier risk identification (Cyber security risk, single source risk) and risk mitigation.
Career History
Current Employer - Hong Kong Jockey Club Mar 2024 to
Now
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Company Website
https://www.hkjc.com/
The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) was founded in 1884 and is one of the oldest institutions
in Hong Kong. It is a non-profit organisation providing horse racing, sporting and betting
entertainment in Hong Kong. It holds a government-granted monopoly in providing pari-mutuel
betting on horse racing, the Mark Six lottery, and fixed odds betting on overseas football
events.
Provide leadership to the ICT Category team and oversee execution of end to end strategic
procurement process including cost estimates, budgets, defining procurement strategies, tendering and
contract management.
Develop competitive and cost effective procurement strategies by working with stakeholders and
suppliers to understand key requirement, Specification and SOW to ensure cost competitive and best
solution is delivered with proper compliance with company quality /governance process.
Supervise and coach handful of staff (procurement officers, managers) to deliver service, including
verification of tender/cost accuracy, detail project timeline .
Collaborate with key stakeholders and internal dept (Finance/Legal) for contract preparation and
negotiation for price optimization and service level alignment and agreement.
Identify key risk associated with the system and suppliers and work with internal and supplier for risk
mitigation and drive key improvement when suppliers performance is in concern.
Drive continuous improvement projects for practices and application for procurement – reduce the
cycle time
Previous Employer - Celestica Hong Kong Limited (Canada based) May 2021 to Mar 2024 ~3
years
Company Website
https://www.celestica.com/index.html
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● Define global commodity strategy -Work with NPI project team and Sustaining team on power
and all thermal commodities to support hardware development including Cloud (OCI) and On-
premise products
● Work on material expedite and escalation with suppliers and platform /buyers to ensure
material supply and mitigate supplier risk, cost negotiation and NPI development
● Mitigated the supply risk by enforcing component multi-sourcing in the early stage of the
product
Achievement –
Successfully mitigated shortage risk by alternative sourcing, attain zero line interruption
Develop Vendor Management Inventory(VMI) for high runners and critical material
● Previous Employer - Oracle System Hong Kong Limited (US based) July 2014 to May 2021
(~7 years)
● Company Website
https://www.oracle.com/index.html
● Responsibilities
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● Define commodity strategy -Work with NPI project team and Sustaining team on power
commodities to support hardware development including Cloud (OCI) and On-premise products.
● Lead a commodity team of Supplier Engineering and Material analyst to manage the Contract
Manufacturers (CM) and negotiate master contracts agreements (MSA), and product awards (PAL).
● Assure supply continuity including risk mitigation. Manage the supply demand of commodities,
develop short and long range forecast to suppliers to minimize air-freight cost, premium expedite,
excess and tariff.
Mitigated the supply risk by enforcing component multi-sourcing in the early stage of the product
development process (reduce sole/single source from 20~30% down to below 10%)
● Negotiated for best contractual terms for improving the upside flexibility and minimizing the
excess material risk exposure by defining the unique turnkey components. Grant Award (Product
Award Letters – PAL)
Achievement –
Achieve ~6-10% cost saving PSU (more than 2M) every year from 2017 to 2020
Develop Vendor Management Inventory(VMI) for high runners and critical material
Consolidated PSU supplier base to achieve better supplier leverage and negotiation. From 5 to 3
suppliers
Mitigate supplier risk and develop non-China Country of origin supply flexibility
Previous Employer #1 - Littelfuse Hong Kong Limited (US based) Jun 2004 to Mar 2014
(10 years)
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- Assistant Strategic Sourcing Manager (2 years)
Company Website
http://www.littelfuse.com/
Littelfuse is the leading manufacturers of circuit protection devices around the world, headquarter in
Chicago, with more than 40 sales, manufacturing and engineering facilities and a global network of
distribution channels
Responsibilities
● Established, managed the outsourced purchasing team in HK and Shenzhen of 4 person covers
over 100 key global outsourced(Private Label) suppliers in Asia and Europe with annual spend
~USD45M of various commodity including mechanical, electronics and electrical parts,
semiconductor parts and finished good products.
● Sourcing for new supplier for various business units from Automotive, Electronic and Mechanical
and Electro-mechanical components with good quality and competitive price in Asia region
● Manage supplier’s performance by conducting regular Quarterly business review and scorecard
● Establish contracts and negotiate for the best terms with outsourced partner and ensure supplier
comply with regulatory requirement and company standard.
Achievements
● New product launch (time to market) -Worked with Product Marketing and Product/R&D team on
new product development with finished good suppliers, facilitate program launch requirements
which generated more than USD60M sales revenue for the company. (Apple Battery project)
● Cost reduction
1. Reduced cost for key outsourced suppliers by USD2.5M in a year, 5% of the total spend
managed
2. Reduced freight cost by working with supplier process and planning team, realized over
USD1.5M freight cost in a year.
3. Certified six sigma black belt by working on a strategic project – transfer of suppliers from
Europe/US to Asia achieving more than 10M global material savings. Consolidated the Europe
suppliers to Asia for better cost and delivery support. Reduced supplier lead-time & cost by
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VAVE
● Organized and coordinated annual Supplier conference with key suppliers in year 2008 to award
outstanding suppliers.
During ERP implementation worked as a Super-User to streamline the business process and
develop the KPI.
Previous Employer #2 - Fuji Xerox (Hong Kong) Limited (US based) Apr 2003 to Apr
2004 (1 year)
Company Website
https://www.fujixerox.com.hk/
Fuji Xerox (Hong Kong) Limited is a trusted ICT partner in providing leading Document Services, printing
solutions and Communication with over 45,000 employees and operates in 160 countries.
Responsibilities
● Change management via Business Process Re-engineering - Apply the DMAIC methodology and
value stream mapping to improve the business process from ordering to invoicing cycle.
● Work on cross functional team to help company setting up a series of measurement indicators
(KPI)
Achievements
● Shortened the total cycle time of ordering to invoicing process from original 90 days to 60 days
● Shortened the account receivable cycle time from 60 to 40 days. Improved the cash flow of the
company.
● Reduced the printer/machine maintenance time from 1 week to 3 days by takt time measurement
and value stream mapping.
Previous Employer #3 - Johnson Electric Mfg Limited (Electrical- HK based) Sep 1999 –Jan 2003
(3.5 year)
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Company Website -
https://www.johnsonelectric.com
Johnson Electric is a global leader in motor products, control systems and flexible interconnects micro
motors, customer segment including automotive, building automation and security, business machines,
defence and aerospace, food and beverage, home technologies, HVAC, industrial equipment, medical
devices, power tools. Established in 1959, JE ships its products to more than 30 countries and have
more than 40,000 employees.
Responsibilities
● Manage all the raw material quality including auditing key copper mills, zinc coils, plastic
material and electronics/electrical/mechanical machinery parts.
● Conduct audit and follow up audit findings with key strategic suppliers, Liaison with purchasing
and suppliers for quality issues and make disposition on problem material.
Achievements
● Organize the annual supplier conference inviting key suppliers to understand our company
strategies, quality requirement and reward outstanding suppliers.
● Supplier training and development – Identify those low-quality suppliers and develop them to
meet company /customer requirement through onsite training.
● Establish the performance indicators (balanced scorecard) and monitor key supplier
performance.
● Supplier certification program – as a core project team member working on Kanban project,
getting 70% incoming material and supplier certified as Kanban material to eliminate non value-
added inspection.
● Work with Purchasing and project team to transfer projects from US supplier to Asia suppliers
which realize more than 3M saving in a year out of USD30M spend
Previous Employer #4 - QPL Limited (Semiconductor industry- HK based) Jul 1998 – Sep
1999 (~1 year)
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Job Title - Incoming Quality/Supplier Quality Engineer ( IQC/SQE )
Company Website -
http://www.qplhk.com/
QPL Limited established in 1989 in Hong Kong, for the manufacture and sale of integrated circuit lead-
frames, heatsinks and semiconductor products.
Responsibilities
● Manage Incoming Quality Assurance (IQC) department, supervising a team of 5 inspectors &
quality engineers on inspection and assurance of incoming raw material
● Managing over 50 raw material suppliers. Conduct audit to key strategic suppliers like copper
material, lead-frames, packaging material and chemicals.
● Liaison with supplier and internal customers (production) for quality issues and make
disposition on problem material. Follow up with suppliers on their corrective action report.
Achievements
● Audited 5 major raw material suppliers on steel coils, Lead-frames, Chemicals, packaging
materials and Plastics material
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