Manager, Procurement and Regional Business Partner (APAC/MENA) at Checkout.com:

Checkout.com is seeking a dedicated Manager, Procurement and Regional Business Partner (APAC/MENA) to join our Procurement team to support the business growth and expansion.

The role will support the planning, implementation and purchasing and procurement strategies for various goods and services spend across the company globally. This includes acquiring resources within budget, facilitating communication between team members, suppliers, and key business partners, and proactively planning and sourcing the appropriate goods and services to help Checkout.com grow and meet its strategic objectives.

In addition, the Manager will be responsible for vendor performance, ensuring quality control throughout the contracting and performance lifecycle. You'll also ensure Procurement and AP guidelines, processes, principles, ethics, and sustainability objectives are all accounted for and constantly strive to deliver the lowest TCO for solutions.

Reporting into the Global Head of Procurement and Expense Operations, this is a key role with significant opportunity to have impact and build trust as an SME. You'll have the autonomy and freedom to deliver innovative solutions, support regional specific needs and global category plans.

As a Regional Planning Director, you will be working closely with local media teams to drive regional strategy & operational excellence across the region.

Specifically, you will be responsible for:

• Work closely with global and business lead to develop regional guidelines in adherence to global strategy
• Day-to-day Client Lead
• Work closely in support of the account/network lead on all operational and network matters
• Ensure local & hub adoption and adherence to global guidelines, mandates, benchmarks
• Work together with hub team to drive operational excellence across execution and reporting
• Ensure media deliverables are met on time and within budget and align with clients' objectives
• Manage hub transition & activation timeline
• Facilitate & manage all global and client requests (e.g. plans/spends/reporting, vendors rate cards/media kits, etc.)
• Ensure clear documentation on all communications with all parties
• Develop, manage cross-country planning/buying process and scopes, billing process flow
• Review and facilitate work orders for regional funded activities
• Manage finance/billing request (i.e. status updates) from client
• Work closely with finance team and local markets to report on financial matters
• Work with Hub team to ensure accurate and timely invoicing (e.g. regular review of unbilled reports, resolve unbilled cases with Finance)
• Follow-up with clients on aging matters
• Able to lead and manage strategic business partnerships that are critical to the client’s business
• Experience in driving strategic business development recommendations and ensuring follow through of the same across teams and markets
• Solid integrated planning experience and able to develop guidelines / toolkits to help ensure consistency in planning principles across markets for the business
• Able to drive business plan reviews across markets in alignment with the client’s goals
• Experience in working with multiple digital ad techs and is able to lead in developing, planning and activating data driven initiatives alongside the planning team
• Experience with managing brand safety guidelines and ensuring local market teams are adhering to these guidelines
• Strong team leadership skills
• Able to work collaboratively across specialist partners within the network

A. Overall Purpose Of The Job

The incumbent is responsible for developing and driving new businesses as well as account extension businesses of existing clients within the Assigned Segments, from lead generation through to close.

Main responsibility is to aggressively drive new and account extension businesses for the Singapore market through the development of sales strategies and tactical execution of action plans in order to meet the monthly, quarterly, and yearly allocated sales targets.

Incumbent will be part of the Singapore Sales & Marketing team and is required to ensure alignment of Sales strategies within the Singapore market. This is achieved through the direction of Managing Director Singapore & Middle East in conjunction with Sales activities, campaigns, and strategies in accordance with the International SOS Group Sales leadership team.

B. Key Responsibilities

a. Sales Targets and Strategies Execution

(i) Develop and execute activities that will enable the achievement of the assigned sales targets

· To achieve the assigned sales targets on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.

· To prepare actions plans and schedules to identify specific targets and/or opportunities within the assigned sales verticals.

· To ensure the required number of sales calls/visits to prospects and existing clients are achieved.

· To work with Head of Marketing and Communications, Singapore to ensure consistent lead generation. To qualify and follow up on the leads and/or referrals resulting from field activities.

(ii) Plan strategies, jointly with Managing Director Singapore & Middle East and Head of Account Management & Partnerships, that support the achievement of assigned sales targets

· To identify business opportunities via prospect development and/or evaluating the changes within the market environment.

· To analyzedata of existing clients and determine the appropriate sales approaches to enable account extension and up-selling of additional services/solutions.

· To review and develop strategies with regards to the verticals and/or initiatives that has been assigned.

· To provide timely sales pipelines updates when required and with the ability to accurately project the estimated close won period of the identified opportunities.

b. Clients & Prospects Engagement

(i) Focus on client centricity

· To maintain and enhance client relationship by providing support, information, guidance and following up on required sales activities whenever is appropriate.

· To cultivate effective business relationships with identified economic buyers, influencers, technical buyers, and buyers to ensure buy-in of solutions.

· To ensure prompt response to clients and prospects queries, ensuring the correct expertise, knowledge and personnel are involved in the response.

(ii) Ability to develop opportunities

· To participate in relevant sales and/or marketing events as deemed required by Managing Director Singapore & Middle East.

· To identify and attend trade meetings, industry conventions and networking events hosted by business associations so as to network and obtain sales leads.

c. Sales Administration & Support

(i) Strong focus on administration

· To provide support to Client Services team to ensure client related documentation, invoicing and entries within relevant systems are being managed accordingly.

· To support Finance team to ensure working capital targets for the assigned clients are being well managed according to the assigned Finance targets.

· To ensure the accurate and timely updating of sales related details, information and sales calls/visits made within the existing systems (e.g. SalesForce.com).

· To adhere to the required sales processes, procedures, and protocols.

(ii) Collaborate with relevant teams

· To work with Commercial Services team to develop competitive pricing that will enable the winning of the opportunities that has been targeted.

· To work with other relevant teams whilst pursing opportunities with existing clients and/or prospects (e.g. Medical and Security team, Operations team, Assistance Centre team etc.).

· To liaise and work with Singapore team members as well as relevant Group and other countries functions on all sales related activities.

(iii) Pursue opportunities to improve

· Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending internal and/or external education workshops, trainings, briefing sessions and/or external events as arranged by the Managing Director Singapore & Middle East.

· Display keen interest in participating in the scheduled Sales & Marketing meetings.

C. Job Profile

Required Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

· Strong consultative selling and/or value selling business knowledge, preferably within the Corporate, Government and/or Education verticals.

· Result oriented, displaying high passion, drive and motivation so as to achieve the assigned sales targets and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Ability to identify what to do when performance deviates from plan and execute corrective measures.

· Strong analytical, problem and decision making capabilities. Able to analyze the information in a given situation and recommend the best course of action.

· A self-starter who is able to work with minimum direction whilst possessing both the desire and ability to develop constructive ideas to react to the ever changing business environment.

· Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Able to communicate and deliver client presentation with ease and flair.

· Persuasive, articulate and able to work with and influence people of different nationalities, personalities and across all levels.

· Display good cross functional skills, with the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively within a demanding and culturally diverse matrix organisation.

· Stress tolerance, able to do the job/task with minimal anxiety level.

· Hardworking, persistent and a dependable team player.

Required Work Experience

· At least 5 years in a sales representative role.

· Proven track record in business development and account management activities, selling complex B2B solutions to multinational companies in a fast moving and global 24/7 environment.

Required Qualifications

· Bachelor’s Degree, Business and Marketing majors preferred.

Travel / Rotation Requirements

· Singapore based, with occasional travels within Asia, depending on business requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• As a Subject matter expert provide direct technical support as needed in the planning, coordination, installation, implementation and testing of releases, upgrades, or changes to CICS and related ISV products.
• Capable of Upgrading/Installing and Migrating CICS Transaction servers
• Capable of Upgrading /Installing and supporting IBM & ISV related Products for Eg : Compuware Abend/aid , ASG TMON/CICS. Omegamon for CICS, BMC Mainview, Xpediter/CICS, CA ACF2/CICS, CA Intertest, CA Symdump.
• Primary on call support for CICS and associated ISV products for eg : Compuware Abend/aid , ASG TMON/CICS. Omegamon for CICS, BMC Mainview, Compuware Xpediter/CICS, CA ACF2/CICS, CA Intertest, CA Symdump.
• Diagnose CICS system and related product issues and follow up with root cause analysis
• Participate in Disaster Recovery planning and tests as scheduled
• Knowledge about the CICS functionality and architecture

Required Skills:

· Engineer with 5 Plus years’ experience systems programming experience

· Basic Knowledge on the following technologies: z/OS, Unix System Services, SMP/E, REXX, Java, VSAM, Third party products

· Experience in CICS transaction server, related ISV products.

Additional Requirements

· Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a IT related field or equivalent work experience

· Process driven management of technical operations and support.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

· The ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

· Excellent troubleshooting and customer service skills.

· The ability to follow a project through to completion, and/or to work as part of a larger team to complete the components of a complex project.

· Participate in on-call rotation with the engineering teams.

Other Preferred Qualifications

· Banking or financial services industry experience.

· Knowledge of Assembler, COBOL, CICS, and Db2

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.

· Proven 8+ years of experience in software testing with a focus on automation.

· Strong expertise in wealth management, securities, and financial services.

· Manage resource allocation and testing budget to meet testing deadlines.

· Work on Automation frameworks using Selenium for web applications, maintaining the test suite and adding test scripts for Mobile and Web applications in each sprint using the BDD cucumber framework.

· Work closely with Product Managers, Technical Architects, and developers to understand complex products in the Wealth management and securities domains.

· Act as the Single Point of Contact for TCOE for all test-related matters.

· Manage a team of testers, assigning tasks, providing guidance, and conducting performance reviews.

· Provide ongoing maintenance support for applications and 24/7 stand-by support required.

· Work extensively in Agile methodologies, utilizing tools such as Jira, Jama, and HP ALM.

· Hands-on experience with Selenium for automation testing.

· Develop relevant frameworks in Automation, including BDD with Cucumber, TestNG, and Page Object Model.

Role : Program Coordinator

Duration : 5 month Contract

Work Location; Central Singapore

Salary Range : S$2,300 to S$3,700 (Based on experience)

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for coordinating activities and resources in support of Program Management plan/schedule.
• Responsibilities Program Calendars / Meetings Deliverables tracking and keep updated the master deliverables list
• Work with team leads/responsible parties to ensure timely updates/forecasts of each deliverable prior to check-in meetings Document Management Work with the Program Managers to establish standards and coordinate document management tools for use by the CREAM staff, including approved external partners.
• Keep all document management repositories for program updated and logically organized for ease of use by team members.
• Propose and enforce organizational standards across the team to ensure that only relevant/current documents are posted and old versions are archived.
• Work with the Program Managers Lead to establish a scalable model for document and permission sharing with external partners.
• Once established, Coordinator will setup, support and manage these tools, including direct coordination and communication with key partner representatives.
• Action Item Tracking Handset/Device Logistics Establish standards, processes and tools for receiving, logging, preparing and managing/executing the distribution of handsets within team and across approved external partners.
• Preparing devices with the latest SW components Onboarding Process for Team Support PgMs and TPMs with coordination and administrative tasks, as needed, and as the program continues to scale.

Skills / Experience

• Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically.
• Previous experience in sales, operations or project management.
• Comfortable with operating in a high-paced, changing work environment with the ability to prioritise multiple functions and tasks, manage time efficiently and navigate ambiguity.

Key Responsibilities

• Under direct supervision, forecasts and communicates engineering, materials, and manufacturing requirements to suppliers.  Provides input to outsourcing decisions by performing make versus buy analysis.  Coordinates demand signals through MRP to minimize inventory exposure.
• Participates in Materials Core Team and coordinates product development process deliverables with team members (buyers, planners, production control).
• Supports the creation, releases, and updates to new project materials strategy.
• Participates in commercialization (transition) materials plan. Participates in the material change control change process. Assists in supplier price and delivery negotiations; under direct supervision may negotiate contracts as necessary.  Utilizes the preferred supplier selection and assessment process when selecting suppliers.  Completes supplier risk assessment on critical and unique parts.  Monitors supplier performance (delivery, quality, cost).
• Works with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long-lead parts and inspection requirements.  Assists in developing supplier and commodity road maps to engineering.
• Meets cost objectives and resolves quality issues.  Generates and publishes Key Process Indicators (KPI).  Tracks total landed costs targets.
• Works with engineering to identify preliminary critical parts, long-lead parts and inspection requirements.  Assists in developing supplier and commodity road maps to engineering.  Utilizes value analysis on build-to-print components in support of Should Cost analysis.
• Under direct supervision, mediate and partner in the resolution of supplier quality issues for assigned product groups.

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates expanded conceptual knowledge in own discipline and broadens capabilities

Business Expertise

• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work

Leadership

• No supervisory responsibilities but provides informal guidance to new team members

Problem Solving

• Solves problems in straightforward situations; analyzes possible solutions using technical experience and judgment and precedents 

Impact

• Impacts quality of own work and the work of others on the team; works within guidelines and policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations

Qualifications

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Additional Information

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Relocation Eligible:

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. 

At DB Schenker, you are part of a global logistics network that connects the world. A network that allows you to shape your career by encouraging you to contribute and truly make a difference. With more than 76,000 colleagues worldwide, we welcome diversity and thrive on individual backgrounds, perspectives and skills. Together as one team, we are Here to move.

About the Role

As part of the Global Program team the Ops SME compliments the group by specifically being responsible for providing warehouse operational expertise for the contract logistics business, across the globe. Engages, communicates, advocates good warehouse operations and process practices to the wider team.

• Empowered to provide operational solution decisions for the to-be process based on team input and own experience within the team workshops
• Operational input to process design, automation, business architects and IT team members
• Management of assigned operational document reviews to time
• Lead optimization of co-designed operational processes
• Support overall operational and business solution activity including processes, layout, material flow, storage/inventory management, planning and reporting activities
• Support document creation of specific solution in conjunction with global, regional and site owners
• Contribute to and/or facilitate requirements workshops as needed
• Define and own the global template solution operationally in line with industry BKM (Best Known Methods)
• Identify and manage risk to program objectives from operational perspective
• Communicate and drive ops process work packages with country implementation teams, ensuring aligned outputs

Qualifications

• Operational management experience across FMCG operations both forward and reverse including various technologies and system
• Ops Subject Matter Expert
• Develop and build virtual teams
• Able to articulate operational principles to the team
• Knowledge of a wide variety of operation types
• An understanding of different routes to market e.g., Retail, e-commerce etc.
• Effective communication and presentation
• Work well under pressure, and able to handle internal and customer demands effectively
• Analytical and logical approach
• Good and positive attitude
• Team player
• Flexible to travel for business trips
• Computer savvy with good working knowledge of business tools

Why DB Schenker?

Competitive salary package

Opportunities for career growth and development, both locally & internationally

Supportive and collaborative team environment

Access to company-wide training programs and initiatives

What’s Next?

Interested in this unique job opportunity? Then please click the apply button above. You’ll be redirected to our Careers Portal where you’ll be able to submit your application.

Responsibilities

• Project Leadership & Management: Oversee end-to-end project lifecycle, from planning to execution, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.
• Process Re-engineering: Conduct comprehensive business analysis to identify opportunities for operational enhancements and process optimization, lead process re-engineering efforts, and implement changes to streamline workflows.
• System Improvements: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess, recommend, and implement system upgrades or replacements to optimize banking operations.
• Stakeholder Management: Manage stakeholder expectations and effectively communicate project goals, progress, and outcomes to key stakeholders, fostering strong relationships with internal and external partners.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring successful project delivery within scope, budget and schedule.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, fostering a collaborative environment, providing leadership to achieve project objectives while ensuring alignment with business goals and regulatory standards.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Project Manager and/or Business Analyst in the banking industry.
• Strong understanding of banking operations, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Demonstrated success in process re-engineering and implementing system improvements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with diverse teams.
• Experience in managing projects involving offshoring or shared service centers is highly desirable.
• Project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2) and business analysis certification (CBAP, PMI-PBA) are a plus.
• Ability to work independently and drive initiatives with minimal supervision.
• Preferred experience in loan or trade products within banking sector.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel Power Query for data analysis.
• Experience with Microsoft PowerBI for reporting and visualization.

At DB Schenker, you are part of a global logistics network that connects the world. A network that allows you to shape your career by encouraging you to contribute and truly make a difference. With more than 76,000 colleagues worldwide, we welcome diversity and thrive on individual backgrounds, perspectives and skills. Together as one team, we are Here to move.

This regional role is responsible for Logistics Operations and Engineering projects within global customer management team. This role will support Regions and Countries for key Account Apple as applicable. This will include but not limited to Operations turnaround solutions, metrics/productivity controlling, process mapping, Lay-out designs, resource determinations/validations and other industrial engineering based activities. You will work closely with key stakeholders both internal and external to attain the project results and objective within the agreed timeframe.

• Responsible for managing assigned Re-engineering solution projects for Schenker’s existing and potential Customers / Operations within the country
• Mentor key operations and Industrial Engineering resources into development of continuous improvement/engineering activities for the generation of business improvement, productivity, service and/or profit maximization
• Institute standards in regards to the measurement and improvement of engineering tools within the key account and the region
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand the requirements, communicate data requirements and methodology
• Responsible for project deliverables and presentation of results and recommendations to stakeholders
• Work on strategic imperatives to drive innovation & automation in key operations
• Engage in new business/ expansion opportunities
• Provide leadership & guidance to country Industrial Engineering resources assigned to the key account

Continuous operations improvement and re-engineering

• Analyze and document processes, workflows, position responsibilities and system flows in conjunction with physical supply chain, identify tactical recommendations
• Identify innovative opportunities that generate efficiencies, design new processes and direct pilot tests. Assess impact of designed processes, impact to warehouse design, technologies needed, impact to customer etc.
• Analyze contractual commitments, specifications, performance and other data to plan and develop logistics activities by using knowledge of industrial engineering, ergonomics, business practices & requirement

Infrastructure Design, Capacity and Productivity

• Review the current lay-out and perform warehouse re-design as needed taking into consideration of net impact
• Review appropriate storage types and methodologies
• Use variety of tools like AutoCAD, 3D modeling designs in CLASS, predict and/or improve logistics operations, warehouse lay-out and processes
• Conduct Time studies and work measurement analysis to determine the current productivity and cycle times
• Review the usage of appropriate MHE in relation to product specification, operations requirement and Lay-out
• Identify potential improvement opportunities and setting the productivity standards for the operations for ramp-up/ramp down scenario

Analysis and Support

• Conduct Financial impact (cost benefit) analysis for proposed initiatives, quantify savings projection and together with intangible benefits
• Assess the impact of changes and project against commercial offers to assess areas of further substantiation or profit improvement
• Support Operational Excellence/FLEX/Lean corporate initiatives and programs
• Offer support and advice to the Innovations team in the development of standardized solutions/tools to support general Logistics/Industrial Engineering programs
• Apply, implement and train staff on the use and interpretation of such tools/methodologies

Why DB Schenker?

Competitive salary package

Opportunities for career growth and development, both locally & internationally

Supportive and collaborative team environment

Access to company-wide training programs and initiatives

What’s Next?

Interested in this unique job opportunity? Then please click the apply button above. You’ll be redirected to our Careers Portal where you’ll be able to submit your application.

THE ROLE:

AMD is looking to hire certified SAP professionals with experience in Finance domain. They will support AMD IT initiatives for supporting Finance & Revenue operations. Through direct interaction with stakeholders and internal business partners, the person will help drive IT alignment with the team's goals and business needs. Provide guidance on Finance business processes, from process design through to process execution.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide support, maintenance, and enhancement on Finance business processes for SAP S/4 HANA.
• Streamline existing business processes – Work with users to identify areas of improvement, create functional and technical requirements for changes and provide relevant training.
• Play a key role in gathering business requirements and work alongside development teams for the successful execution of IT portfolio projects.
• Lead the technical design and enhancement of SAP solutions for simplicity, amplification, and maintainability.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• 3+ years of SAP FI/CO or Revenue configuration experience in implementation/ upgrade & production support roles for SAP S/4 HANA.
• Techno Functional resource with hands on config and debugging experience.
• Basic knowledge of ABAP includes debugging of programs and tables and strong working knowledge of Integration technologies i.e., EDI, IDOC types, Message types, Partner profiles and Process codes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Capable of translating business needs to solutions within SAP FICO.
• Job Qualifications 1 – SAP Finance.
• Should have experience in configuring SAP FICO and related modules including AP, GL, FA, Tax, Bank.
• Have a Finance and controlling process understanding and can work with multiple assignments at a time.
• Should have experience with house bank, supplier payments, DME configurations, and EBS BAI, MT940, CAMT
• Should have Knowledge on VIM configurations such as DP document types, process options, Role and agent determination, blocking, Approvals, ICC/IES, Archive center.
• Basic knowledge of Material master, Vendor master, PO, GR
• Preferred Experience
• Experience with integrating third party enterprise tax product such as ONESOURCE is highly desired.
• Knowledge of implementing and maintaining SAP Concur, SAP Ariba Buying along with its integrations upstream & downstream.
• Channel & Rebates Management
• Experience in configuring SAP AR, RAR, Settlement management modules
• Basic knowledge of distributor ship & debit process with experience in SAP SD
• Experience in handling Channel partner Point of sale and their claims using settlement management module.
• SAP Vistex resource with knowledge in SAP Order to Cash, including Billbacks and rebate agreements, claims and settlements.
• Good hands-on experience in Vistex solution extensions V/4 and ABAP for SAP S/4HANA
• Experience in SAP SD configuration; SAP Vistex Configuration, knowledge of ABAP preferred including familiarity with EDI/IDOCs, and integration with PI; recent, relevant, hands-on experience is a must.
• Experience of configuration and customization on Creatio Sales or Creatio Service or Creatio Marketing or Creatio Studio is preferred.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or Finance/Business.