Senior Manager / Assistant Vice President - Sustainable Practices and Digital Innovation (Group Procurement)
Our client seeks a proactive team player to facilitate the Group Procurement transformation across all Business Units (BUs), this role primarily entails advancing and implementing the Sustainable Procurement Framework (SPF), integrating ongoing Sustainability and Digitalization (S&D) initiatives within all BUs, and spearheading/developing new projects to enhance our global transformation program.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate the implementation of specific workstreams within the updated SPF, particularly in the implementation of carbon monitoring and ESG management through our third-party global platform.
- Reviewing global spend analysis and emerging use cases.
- Staying abreast of market intelligence and recent developments in carbon and ESG management.
- Evaluate the combined effects of the BUs' energy transition plans on Group Procurement in terms of commercial strategy, capabilities, and workload, and formulate a responsive roadmap to aid the BUs' energy transition while enhancing the procurement function's skills.
- Assist in the development and execution of decarbonization projects, particularly focusing on equipment electrification, sourcing and generation of Renewable Energy (RE), and actively exploring eco-friendly alternatives in tenders.
- Develop and execute pertinent strategies for highly significant ESG areas, such as:
- Revise and revitalize the SPF by incorporating the latest leading market practices, with a heightened focus on actionable measures and their impact on our specification requirements and supplier engagement methods.
- Contribute to other workstreams and supply chain initiatives to support the VP GPROC in the Procurement Transformation journey.
- Enhancing the Supplier KYC process.
- Assisting in contract management to enhance supplier performance.
- On the Digitalization front, enhance existing procurement tools, templates, contracts, and KPIs to integrate ESG requirements, and digitalize and automate them whenever feasible.
- Initiate data-driven programs and harness AI/analytics capabilities in critical areas, including:
- Visualizing team performance through multi-dimensional dashboards and implementing gap closure plans.
- Extracting insights from existing databases to develop cost models and benchmarks.
Requirements
- Over 10 years of procurement/supply chain experience, including 3-5 years in sustainability/digitalization.
- Any relevant degree. Post-graduate or professional qualifications will be taken into consideration.
- Proficiency in ESG and sustainability trends; practical involvement in AI/data/digitalization projects.
- Deeply passionate about ESG, AI/digitalization, and ongoing enhancement. Self-motivated with exceptional commercial insight and adeptness in facilitation/stakeholder management. Track record in spearheading change within regional/global initiatives.
Office Location: South
Interested candidates kindly forward your CV to [email protected] (Gwen Hu, Reg No: R22109984). You may email this great opportunity to someone who would be a great fit for this role.
All information will be kept strictly confidential. We regret to inform that only successful applicants will be contacted.
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