About STT GDC
STT GDC Pte Ltd (“STT GDC”) is a data centre provider headquartered in Singapore. With a global platform of data centres in the world’s major business markets across Singapore, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom, Germany, and Malaysia. STT GDC offers a full suite of best-in-class, highly scalable and flexible data centre solutions, connectivity and support services that best meet customers’ current and future colocation needs.
STT GDC, together with the group of companies, has a global strength matched by our local expertise – teams on the ground who know their home markets best and ensuring that every one of your data centres is developed and operated consistently according to our strictest global standards by our Technology and Centre of Operational Excellence teams, no matter where it is located.
Led by an experienced team, STT GDC brings together colocation facilities built to most stringent industry standards, together with scalable end-to-end data centre solutions, connectivity, support services, and cloud infrastructure solutions. Expanding our global platform and providing data centre solutions with flexible commercial terms are our strategic priority, in enabling our customers a greater access worldwide and ease of deployment.
At ST Telemedia Global Data Centres, we are Enabling Our Digital Futures.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The Senior Procurement Manager will be responsible for all procurement related activities for the company and lead the end-to-end procurement processes and activities of sourcing, evaluation, contract management and purchase order issuance. The role demands a candidate with dynamic and adaptable approach to support business objectives.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
- Ensure end to end procurement processes & activities to meet the objectives of (i) proper governance, (ii) cost efficiencies and (iii) on time delivery of projects.
Lead end to end Procurement activities:
- Validate requirement, float RFQ/RFP, manage tender process.
- Sourcing of key vendors/ suppliers to support project delivery.
- Identify high risk suppliers & work on alternate plan to minimise the risk.
- Establish framework for the selection of vendors.
- Lead negotiation and contracts closure with partners for major deals in consultation with Legal and internal stakeholders.
- Prepare and present recommendation papers to Senior management and procurement committees.
- Drive cost savings initiatives including group procurement.
Contract Management:
- Work closely with legal team and user to negotiate contract terms with vendors.
- Negotiate contracts with vendor to ensure favourable terms for the company.
- Coordinate between legal team & users to finalise and close contracts in a timely manner.
- Assess and mitigate risk associated with contracts, and work to incorporate safeguards into contracts.
- Maintain a register of contracts.
Process and Policies:
- Maintain the procurement process, workflows and policies, ensuring relevance to the business and alignment to the Group’s objectives.
- Ensure strict compliance for Purchase policy.
- DOP/DOA adherence for all PO & decisions.
- Ensure Fairness & transparency in decision makings.
Stakeholder Management:
- Engagement with stakeholders to drive procurement strategy and recommendation.
- Includes preparation and presentation of procurement papers.
- Accountable for monitoring SLA performance with key project suppliers.
Vendor Management:
- Negotiate contracts, terms, and pricing with suppliers/vendors to achieve cost savings and quality standards.
- Monitor vendor performance and manage relationships to drive continuous improvement.
Team Development:
- Support the Head of Procurement in guiding the procurement team (HQ and new markets)
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration or supply chain management with equivalent industry experience.
- Proven experience of more than 8 years in end-to-end procurement process, contract management preferably in infrastructure or data centre industry.
- Knowledge of Data Center, construction, engineering, procurement, industry standards and other project-related activities, their interfaces and interdependencies preferred.
- Strong communication & decision-making skills with cross functional experience in relevant procurement background.
- Strong commercial, negotiation and analytical skill with ability to draw big picture
- Ability to communicate and engage effectively with stakeholders at Executive level.
- Strong team player and ability to work closely with different business units.
- Ability to work independently under tight timelines.
- Experience in leading procurement projects across multiple countries, outside of Singapore.
- Experience in Ariba preferred.
