Job Description

Position Title: Procurement Manager, JKSEAT Position Type: Regular - Full-Time Position Location: Malaysia Grade: 00 Requisition ID: 20961
Roles and Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

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  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

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Job Family: Procurement
Division: Global Procurement
Department: Procurement ANZ
Location(s): MY - Malaysia : Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur : Kuala Lumpur Company: McCain Internatnl SDN BHD