ASSISTANT PROCUREMENT MANAGER

1. Category management and sourcing

• Logistics & Supply Chain: freight, 3PL, warehousing and last mile

• Marketing: overall marketing agency category

• Technology: software and SaaS, implementation and integration, managed services, cloud and digital platforms

• Build fact-based category strategies covering spend baseline, supplier landscape, cost drivers, market dynamics

• Run competitive sourcing events end-to-end: briefing, RFI, RFP and RFQ, cost breakdowns, evaluation criteria and weightings, scoring, recommendation and award

• Lead and support commercial negotiations on total cost of ownership, including demand management, specification challenge and consolidation opportunities

• Work with Legal to paper what we buy, covering standard templates, terms, renewals and expiries, and keep the contract record current for your categories

• Establish supplier performance management for key suppliers through scorecards, business reviews and improvement plans

2. Process improvement and source-to-pay

• Design and continuously improve the upstream source-to-pay process: intake, requisition, approvals, purchase orders and goods receipt

• Digitalise the procurement toolkit, including the requisition, new vendor request, sourcing waiver, vendor assessment and tender pack, and build the routing behind them in Concur and lightweight workflow tools

• Drive purchase order discipline and policy compliance

• Support the roll-out of the Group Procurement Policy and its supporting SOPs, and act as a first point of contact for the business on how to buy

3. Data, analytics and reporting

• Own the Group spend baseline by extracting, cleansing, categorising and maintaining spend, supplier and contract data drawn from finance and AP systems

• Turn data into usable answers on supplier concentration, tail spend, price and volume variance, contract coverage, compliance rates, pipeline and savings

• Build and maintain procurement dashboards and the monthly reporting pack for the CFO and the Management Committee

• Work with FP&A to define, validate and track budget

4. Stakeholder Management

• Partner with Marketing, Logistics, IT, Store Operations, Projects, Legal and Finance as a commercial adviser

• Work across markets with teams in Singapore and the wider region 

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering or a related field

• Professional certification such as CIPS, CPSM, or Lean and Six Sigma is advantageous

• Minimum 8 years in indirect procurement, with hands-on ownership of categories and sourcing events from end-to-end

• FMCG, Consumer goods, Retail, fashion, or fast-moving, multi-market environment is advantageous

• Exposure to logistics, marketing and/or technology categories is advantageous

• Familiar with AI tools

• Advanced Excel: Pivot tables, lookups, Power Query

• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or Python is an advantage

• Experience in process improvement or transformation, whether process redesign, digitalisation, Lean or Six Sigma is advantageous

• Working knowledge of P2P or S2P platforms such as Concur, SAP, Ariba, Coupa or Ivalua is an advantage