Senior Ops Procurement Specialist

LOCATION: Bandar Enstek, Negeri Sembilan

REPORTS TO: Procurement Operations Manager

The Senior Procurement Operations Specialist will collaborate with Country Leadership, Regional Category and COE teams to assure supply of raw materials, chemicals, packaging and MRO (goods and services) & CAPEX for the plant.

Core Responsibilities:

• Assure supply of raw materials, chemicals, packaging and MRO for our manufacturing facilities through demand planning activities to properly allocate volume with our supplier mix.
• Partner with S&OP to analyze and share forecast, scheduling with preferred vendors to guarantee demand visibility and set up actions towards risk mitigation of supply.
• Leverage cost efficiency through long term strategy agreements and deliver cost savings/avoidance within plants.
• Develop and maintain Supplier Relationship Management programs to assure supply and guarantee vendor service levels.
• Partner with operations and supply chain stakeholders to set specific scope of works and item specifications in order to fully align procurement processes and guarantee procurement best practices. (RFI, RFP, competitive value-added analysis).
• Participate on plant’s leadership activities, such as projects and staff meetings to identify needs and properly communicate risks and opportunities from the procurement standpoint.
• Partner with APAC COE to identify, execute and consolidate standardization opportunities to leverage cost efficiency among plants.
• Ensure company policies and procedures are being adhered to as they pertain to the Procurement Process.
• Develop work plans, identify data needs, and successfully interpret analytic insights.

Qualified candidates will have:

• Min 3 years working experience in operational procurement in a manufacturing environment
• General procurement background preferably in direct materials AND/OR Capex/MRO.
• Good communication skills
• Result driven attitude
• Supplier management and engagement experience
• Operational purchasing, monitoring deliver of materials etc.
• Ability to organize, schedule and successfully manage multiple priorities.
• Experience using SAP MM Module.
• Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, especially Microsoft Excel.
• Sound knowledge of SAP. Ariba and Power Steering are desirable.

Relocation Available: