Category Procurement Manager

Role Overview

• Serve as the Greater SEA representative on all procurement issues and procedures as a SPOC.
• Facilitate cross country topics and handover to the right stakeholders.
• Coordination of all procurement activities within the BU during project execution phase.
• Accountable for development, execution and maintenance of procurement strategy and project plans within the countries, in alignment with country stakeholders (Operations, Technical, Finance, Sales etc.) as well as category market and global procurement strategies.
• Accountable for procurement KPI performance management and process compliance in the countries within their own area of responsibility.
• Ensuring the execution of the SBM process (from screening to onboarding and lifecycle management) for country suppliers.
• Maintains strategic relationships with all key suppliers (strategic, critical and core) located in countries.
• Analyses supply market, anticipates changes and drives associated procurement activities.
• Evaluates contracts and suppliers in order to facilitate final supplier base decisions with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensures products and services are purchased in the most cost and time efficient manner, implements and ensures purchasing best practices.
• Coordinates category & supplier strategy implementation in the country.
• Accountable to provision country information for key programs
• Align with Global Category streams to understand and support Global & Regional procurement category strategies
• Translate the purchasing strategy in concrete action plans in order to satisfy customer needs, company targets and quality / safety norms and standards
• Ensures that the needs of the sites are effectively represented in the Purchasing strategies and to achieve this must work closely with the Site Leadership Teams

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in a senior role in a procurement function or in program management and execution, preferably in a large manufacturing environment
• Experience in an international company
• Proven leadership skills and experience
• Strategic sourcing skills and market knowledge and experience
• Strong influencing and persuasion skills
• Effective participation in multi-functional work-projects and cross-functional teams in an international environment
• Working knowledge of company information and data systems used by Procurement
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in training development and delivery
• Excellent problem solving, team building, project management and change management skills
• Proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Professional development opportunities