Procurement Manager – Global HR Outsourcing Category

Procurement at ByteDance plays a key role in delivering high-quality purchasing solutions and building a global platform for sourcing resources. By managing procurement professionally, selecting reliable suppliers, and monitoring performance, we aim to improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and compliance across the company — helping to foster a sustainable business environment.

- Participate in global outsourcing procurement, covering staff outsourcing, personnel outsourcing, and BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) projects. Leverage integration advantages from a group-level procurement perspective: stay close to the business internally to consolidate demand, and stay abreast of industry trends and supplier resources externally. Optimize procurement management and processes, provide macro-level guidance to business lines, and support efficient, low-cost business operations.
- Based on data analysis and insights into supplier spend, headcount scale, delivery base, cost breakdown, and performance, identify opportunities for procurement optimization. Develop and execute sub-category strategies aligned with business needs and group management requirements.
- Own business needs analysis, procurement solution design, commercial negotiation, and contract signing—aligned with sub-category strategies and cost control targets—while managing risks throughout execution.
- Lead supplier sourcing, development, management, and performance evaluation. Familiar with service-industry market resources and have an existing supplier network.
- Stay current with industry characteristics and relevant policies and regulations; conduct in-depth research on the professional services industry and benchmark against peers' procurement practices to continuously optimize procurement processes, pricing levels, and the supplier pool. Collect and analyze data on HR services, consulting markets, and industry trends to inform procurement decisions.

Minimum Qualification(s)
- Strong communication skills, with excellent cross-team collaboration and supplier negotiation capabilities.
- Strategic thinking, able to support and empower the improvement and optimization of existing outsourcing procurement processes.
- Clear logic, pragmatic, open-minded and proactive about learning new things; embraces change and adapts well to evolving priorities.
- Solid data analysis skills, with awareness of AI and other emerging technologies and tools.
- Working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese (written and spoken) is required, as the role involves regular collaboration with China-based business teams and stakeholders.