About Us
DFI Retail Group is a leading pan-Asian retailer and operates across four broad formats: Food (including Supermarkets, Hypermarkets and Convenience stores), Health & Beauty, Home Furnishings, and Restaurants. The Group has operations in 12 markets and operates multiple formats in most markets to satisfy different customer segments and trades under well recognised brands.
At DFI Retail Group, we strive to give our customers across Asia a store they TRUST, delivering QUALITY, SERVICE and VALUE. When it comes to retail skills, our team members are the envy of the industry. We cultivate an organisational culture where team members can learn and grow by creating a workplace that attracts great people, builds capability, promotes talent and inspires excellence.
We are passionate about sharing our know-how and finding synergies across our businesses in Asia. Cooperation between store operations, supply chain & logistics, and store support centre is complemented by a culture which values sustainable results, teamwork and integrity. At the heart of our cultural values is a strategic priority to build strong customer focus retail models in each of our businesses.
We also believe in giving back to and supporting the communities in which we live and work. At the Group level, we support community initiatives benefiting people suffering or recovering from mental illnesses and the promotion of mental health awareness in Hong Kong and Singapore. At the country level, many of our businesses enthusiastically develop and support various local corporate social responsibility activities to promote sustainability and health & wellness in their communities.
DFI Retail Group is a member of the Jardine Matheson Group.
The Role
Key Responsibilities:
- Working with the Head of IT Procurement to manage strategic procurement projects including conducting market research on procurement categories, developing and reviewing business cases, gathering and analyzing internal spend and supplier performance data, and agreeing appropriate procurement strategies including negotiation strategies e.g. face to face / e-Auctions.
- Engage and work with multiple stakeholders across APAC to ascertain business needs and identify risks and issues.
- Lead in procurement and contract negotiations.
- Contract award including managing the DocuSign process and storing contracts on our Contract Database.
- Supporting the Procurement Lead to deliver high-value and medium to high-complex procurements.
- Agree on appropriate contract management approaches for procurement projects and assess supplier performance, promoting continuous improvement and innovation.
- Complete the appropriate governance processes e.g. Non-Trade Procurement panel or ITEC for projects over $500K USD.
- Deliver strategic procurement and support delivery of procurement change projects.
- Developing category plans and identifying risks, issues, and opportunities to generate improvements in the business operations including analyzing spend data v budgets v contractual commitments.
- Supporting the completion of Non-Trade Procurement reporting including, saving tracker and saving approvals, supplier control and conducting team meetings.
- Ensures compliance with procurement KPI’s.
- Ensures compliance with legal, regulatory, and security requirements e.g. Cyber Security.
- Ensure integrity and ethics are sustained throughout the procurement process.
Requirements:
- 5 to 10 years of Procurement experience
- Degree or equivalent in Procurement / IT or related discipline
- Ambition to continue to develop a career in procurement
- Experience working in teams and also able to follow end-to-end procurement processes and work independently.
- Strong attention to detail and strong numeracy and analytical skills.
- Be a good problem solver.
- Proactive, self-motivated, well-organized, efficient, and ability to work under pressure.
- Achievement and goal-oriented with good organization skills, ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously.
- Leadership behaviors and skills.
- Strong computer literacy skills with excellent MS Office skills.
- Good command of English language.
Preferred
- Experience working in the regional office of MNC, retail, and multi-market background is preferred.
- Experience in IT procurement is an advantage.
- CIPS member.
- Experience working in a procurement team and/or in a retail and multi-market is preferred.
