JOB DESCRIPTION
- Perform spend analysis to establish a detailed view of the current spend segmentation for commodities to drive strategy with knowledge of the supply market, key dynamics and latest drivers within a commodity
- Develop and implement procurement strategies that optimise costs, maintain quality standards and mitigate supply chain risks
- Conduct market research and analysis to stay updated on industry trends, supplier landscape, supplier capabilities, opportunities, and pricing fluctuations
- Conduct business review meetings with key stakeholders to assess risk, review future strategies, and identify potential cost down and improve opportunities
- Foster strong relationships with key suppliers to enhance collaboration, communication, and partnership
- Identify, evaluate, qualifying potential suppliers and conduct supplier performance evaluation as per procedure
- Prepare and lead sourcing events, qualify approve, negotiate contracts on the selection of new supply and service contracts terms that deliver value and mitigate risk to the Company
- Create and maintain accurate and up-to-date catalogues, including the consolidation and organising product information and ensuring that catalogues present in a visually appealing manner
- Implement and maintain e-procurement tools such as punchout catalogs
- Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to identify new products/items addtions, product/item updates, phase-outs and take appropriate actions to keep data up to date and accurate
- Define and maintain SOPs that establish commodities codes including agreed and approved mechanisms to add, update or delete commodities codes
- Manage spend extraction from SAP and upload to SAP Ariba Spend Analysis for enrichment and validate enriched data is complete and accurate
- Consistently monitor and evaluate savings against targets by category, sub-category, and supplier
- Monitor procurement patterns and user behavior, catalog usage and consolidate items
- Develop and maintain procurement metrics to track performance, identify areas for improvement and report on sourcing effectiveness
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure growth of digitalization processes through expanded supplier catalog adoption.
- Communicate with suppliers and other relevant parties for all technical settings in Ariba Network and fix technical errors with catalogs and connection
- Provide ad-hoc training and support for internal stakeholders on the procurement process and system. Shares expertise through training and communication with internal stakeholders to ensure the desired level of self-sufficiency is achieved
- Support development of new policies and procedures to drive savings and lead organizational and operational change management within managed categories of spend
- Ensure that the procurement process is in adherence to Company and Client requirements, Company policies and procedures
- Ensure that the monthly procurement reports and procurement metrics are reported on-time
- Such other duties and responsibilities as may be reasonably requested by your immediate supervisor / the Head of department from time to time.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Procurement professional adept at both Procurement Operations and Category Management/Sourcing
- Degree in Engineering or equivalent business studies with minimum 5 years’ procurement experience, particularly in category procurement, supplier management and strategic sourcing with deep expertise in plants or facilities
- Possess a high degree of integrity and the ability to accept responsibility for work activities and projects and see them through to completion
- A good team player who is able to build rapport with a diverse workforce in a multi-cultural setting and work well with other departments and internal stakeholders
- Strong ability to negotiate, resourceful, proven analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to details
- Demonstrated ability to influence others and drive change
- Proficiency in SAP/ARIBA system is a must, with work experience with SAP ARIBA Spend Analysis, Guided Buying functionality and SAP Vendor Master data
- Proficient in MS Office applications including Excel and Microsoft Power BI
- Exhibit high attention to detail, thoroughness, and accuracy, especially in work within the ARIBA and SAP system
