Job Description

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Position Title: Category Manager, JKSEAT

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time \xe2\x80\x8b

Position Location: Malaysia

Grade: 00

Requisition ID: 20961

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Roles and Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

• AOC Budgeting: Works closely with finance and stakeholders to establish and manage budgets for respective category areas. Incorporates contractual commitments. Has ownership and accountability for goals and objectives tied to productivity, innovation, and cash flow.
• Strategic Sourcing and Category Planning. : Owns the sourcing and contracting strategy for all categories including market and industry analysis, category and supplier segmentation, sourcing activities, analysis, negotiations, contracting and implementation. Provides deep category insight and expertise through understanding of costs, cost drivers, market, industry and supplier variables.
• Sustainable Cost Advantage Delivery: Drives initiatives focusing on overall cost optimisation for categories being managed. Collaborates with cross-functional team to execute initiatives and build solid pipeline of opportunities.
• Business and Stakeholder Alignment. : Establishes ongoing communication and process to ensure high levels of stakeholder engagement, participation and satisfaction. Participates in stakeholder leadership teams for respective functional areas to build and maintain ongoing linkages with sourcing strategy, category management, supply base design and ongoing supplier relationship management. Collaborates with sourcing points for JKSEAT business within McCain global footprint.
• Spend Governance: Leads, controls and drives improvement in the transactional buying processes for respective category areas in order to capitalize on opportunities, drive productivity, and deliver quality and service requirements for all business stakeholders and driving the same through structured contracts with suppliers in line with the policy guidelines. Ensure compliance in line with procurement policy and procedures. This shall include but not limited to putting in place BARs (Business Award Recommendations) as per spend thresholds.

Supplier Relationship Management: Manages supplier relationships to encourage supplier innovation and maximize value contributions to McCain through effective sourcing and contracting processes. Responsible for leading discussions with critical suppliers around long-term objectives and strategies, performance management ongoing market trends, innovation and technology advances. Ensures that suppliers fully understand the overall McCain value stream and the end customer, and that McCain commitments to suppliers are being fulfilled. Meets with preferred suppliers on a regular basis to ensure contractual obligations are being met or exceeded.

Benchmarking : Constantly seeking out and reviewing industry and category specific best practices, processes and systems to leverage opportunities within the McCain Global network and also externally in the market. Researches and stays updated on industry trends that may impact existing and/or future category strategies. Shares best practices within the team and functional stakeholders.

Requirements

• Minimum degree in Marketing or Business.
• Candidate to posses working experience of 6 to 8 years of relevant expereince. Preferably from FMCG background.
• Technical skills are a great advantage to have ; Strategic Thinking, Business and Financial Acumen, Project Management, Influencing Skill

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country.

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Job Family: Procurement
Division: Global Procurement
Department: \xe2\x80\x8bProcurement ANZ \xe2\x80\x8b
Location(s): MY - Malaysia : Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur : Kuala Lumpur

Company: McCain Internatnl SDN BHD

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