经验丰富的领导力在行动™ – 专访 Canada Goose 副总裁 Danny Wang!

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在 Supply Chain Game Changer,我们相信分享来自各个行业和全球各地的人们的经验和专业知识。 因此,我们推出了我们的“经验丰富的领导力™” Interview series. This interview is with Danny Wang, Vice President of Sourcing and Procurement at 加拿大鹅.

I first met Danny when we were both at Celestica. We worked in the Commodity Management organization, responsible for Strategic Sourcing and Procurement.

It was easy to see early on that Danny was highly intelligent and had tremendous career potential. It is great to see Danny’s success as he has advanced and progressed throughout his career.

Danny Wang, Vice President at Canada Goose

The work that Canada Goose is doing to supply Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the Coronavirus pandemic is truly inspirational. And Danny’s work in sourcing and procurement is at the centre of making that happen. We extend our thanks to Danny and the team at Canada Goose for all of their efforts.

Here is our interview with a true industry leader, Danny Wang!

向我们的读者介绍一下您的背景和经历? 

Danny Wang is currently the VP of Sourcing and Procurement at Canada Goose with accountability for Direct/Indirect spends and replenishment planning and purchasing.  He received his Engineering degree from Queen’s University which led to his initial career in manufacturing and supply chain at Celestica. 

After a successful tenure in helping develop their international build to print supply base, Danny completed his MBA at Ivey and proceeded into his retail consulting career with Accenture and performed numerous strategic sourcing transformations and assessments at Walgreens, HBC/L&T/Saks, Staples, JC Penny, and Canadian Tire. 

Danny eventually returned to industry and worked at Walmart Canada leading several indirect categories.  He currently resides in Toronto with his wife and wears a different Canada Goose jacket every week.

您在商界取得的最大成就是什么? 

When asked this question, what I remember are the individuals that I was able to coach and mentor.  At every instance, it was a pleasure to see them take some of my advice and grow to become very successful in their immediate role and excel in their careers after my time with them.  

Of course, I would count myself lucky in being able to identify these high potentials who all seem to have the similar mindset of continuing to learn and ask questions to challenge old habits or preconceived notions.

在您的职业生涯中,业务和供应链有何变化? 

In my current world of managing suppliers, sourcing goods and identifying opportunities to save money, the principles have remained the same.   Principles of being extremely flexible to everchanging needs; paranoid diligence in understanding requirements; drive for complete cost transparency and fact-based analysis; and consistent over communication.

The pace and ability to gather information and execute has dramatically increased through technology as well as the entrepreneur mindset to delivery results regardless of bureaucracy and competing initiatives.  I have seen some companies truly embrace this mindset and become very successful and others embrace it but forget to use common sense when making decisions.  

We may be able to gather a lot of information today, but common sense helps navigate what information is appropriate and reasonably accurate.

您在职业生涯中学到的哪些经验教训是您想分享给其他人学习的? 

Be patient with your career development and always focus on putting yourself in either situations to try something new or uncomfortable situations that will force you to learn new skills.  Some folks seem to be very lucky in their careers of always having the right opportunities land in their laps, but I would like to think that they were always preparing themselves with experience and education to be successful when those opportunities presented themselves.

Taking the time to invest in yourself and even taking parallel or lower career positions to gain new experience will help leapfrog your career in 5 to 10 years, more so than others with less professional diversity.  This was what I can attest to when I took a year off to complete my MBA as well as moving into a junior consultant role in a completely new industry where my peers where 8 years younger.  

Having the ability to pivot to new directions as well as my diverse background allowed me to showcase my value and fast track promotions every 2 years where my previous peers were still in the same positions.

世界面临的哪些挑战对您来说很重要?

At present it is the Covid-19 pandemic the world is facing.

商业、供应链和变革领导力在应对这些挑战中的作用是什么? 

How Canada Goose is addressing the Covid-19 challenge I think is a great example of how all roles of business, supply chain and change leadership stepped up and aligned on the principle that we had a responsibility to do something meaningful to help Canadians though this ordeal.  

Given our Canadian manufacturing footprint, our apparel experience and the direction from our executive leadership to just go make scrubs and gowns to donate, allowed everyone the freedom to lean in and execute as quickly as possible.  

Those initial two weeks of sourcing materials, experimenting with designs, working with Hospitals/Health Canada and calling our manufacturing folks back to work was the key to accelerating our ability to make 60,000+ isolation gowns per week for various Canadian health entities today.  

The change management to be able to pivot the organization so quickly was having a singular goal throughout all departments to help in the Covid-19 cause and removed any potential barriers of working outside our regular defined process.  In my opinion this sped up our ability to secure raw materials and start production at 5x the regular pace.

What advice would you give people who are considering a career in Sourcing and Procurement? 

当我从工程学位毕业后开始我的职业生涯时,我从未真正计划过从事采购工作。 像今天我的几位同事一样,经过几轮正式化我们在不同角色的不同职能中可能所做的事情,我们进入了这个角色,以便我们更好地理解采购和采购在今天可能意味着什么。  

My advice to those considering on joining this field is to understand if they have a passion to identify what people want vs. need and why; find or develop the supplies to fulfill these needs; work across the enterprise to satisfy budgets, legal constraints and timelines; and then in rare occasions, when needed, negotiate with facts instead of bargaining for pride.  People will also need to be comfortable with never being an expert on what they may source but collaborating with those who believe they are the experts and thus do not need your involvement to buy/negotiate those goods/services.

在其最成熟的形式中,寻源和采购对于任何公司的成功和盈利能力都具有很强的战略意义和核心作用。 它在整个企业内进行互动和指导,以确保每个人都有权找到更好的供应商和更有效的方式来消费这些产品/服务,同时防止偏见和自满。   

与供应链中的其他角色一样,寻源和采购很少有魅力或成为头条新闻的第一个主题,但这些支持角色是迫切需要的,对于那些希望看到自己的努力转化为切实成果的人来说,这是一条极好的职业道路。

Originally published on May 12,2020。

Source: https://supplychaingamechanger.com/seasoned-leadership-in-action-an-interview-with-danny-wang-vp-at-canada-goose/

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