Assistant Procurement Manager

Responsibilities: 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

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