Responsibilities
- Managing assigned IT-related categories, suppliers, internal customers, and sourcing strategies, preferably in business or operational technologies specific to the transport industry.
- Drive competitive sourcing activities, identify, evaluate, and select suppliers that meet business requirements
- Lead cross-functional teams to establish and strengthen category strategies
- Analyse spend across business units within the Group (including overseas business units) and identify opportunities for consolidation to provide better value to the businesses
- Perform market analysis to understand market conditions and dynamics, and constantly monitor supply market activities
- Foster partnership with key suppliers for strategic collaboration
- Manage strategic supplier relationships and performance through regular supplier meetings, business reviews and suppliers’ performance evaluations for continuous improvement to deliver new value-add
- Act as interface between assigned strategic business unit and Group Procurement, actively managing this relationship to ensure the procurement strategy and annual plan is achieved in a way that delivers value to the business
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in any field
- Acute sense of integrity and strong fundamentals in procurement principles
- Actively and openly source for suitable new suppliers to revitalize supplier pool
- Negotiate with suppliers to achieve target savings
- Knowledge in IT procurement is a plus
- Good knowledge of procurement best practices, contract and commercial laws, financials, and cost analysis
- Strong leadership skills, resourceful with a logical and analytical mind and the ability to think strategically with strong business acumen, effective communication
Account Manager
Kerwin Tan Kai Bin (R1331624)
EA16S8107
