This position is to manage purchasing activities of all legal entities in the scope with following main roles:
- To supervise all purchasing activities (both direct & and indirect good/services) ensuring in compliance with Group procurement policies.
- To identify and participate in all key sourcing activities (such as: CAPEX Purchases, annual direct material pricing, etc.)
- To manage and develop suppliers to ensure continuous good performance in quality, price, payment term, delivery and service
- To provide good internal customer services and value-added services to Operation teams.
General duties:
1. PR/ PO System:
- Lead to deploy the system to newly acquired legal entities.
- To provide system training and guidance to all local team and newly acquired legal entities.
- Coordinate with system technical team to ensure the system is using well in all legal entities.
- Provide Purchasing reports.
2. Sourcing
- Support for sourcing activities for both direct & indirect goods/service.
- For key purchases, he/she works with end-users to understand business requirements from the early stage of the sourcing. Then, source and negotiate with suppliers to achieve cost savings, payment term and other commercial term targets.
- Formulate effective sourcing strategies that accomplish performance and savings goals.
- Liaises with global purchasing teams and other related teams to verify and ensure the commercial terms from suppliers align with company purchasing practices.
- Continuously update Group purchasing targets, strategies & activities for all related stakeholders
- Forecast and manage all the sourcing risks to advise for related teams.
- Other sourcing tasks if necessary
3. Operational Purchasing
- Day to day supervision of the purchasing activities to ensure Group policies and procedures are complied.
- Develop and announce Service Level Agreement with all legal entities in his/her scope.
- Implement, monitor, and report on relevant key performance indicators to demonstrate improvements of purchasing activities for the whole group and to monitor the purchasing performance of each legal entity.
- Coach, train and develop local buyers among all legal entities in his/her scope.
- Research, develop and implement improved PR/ PO system and procurement procedures with documentation and training.
- Maintain all purchasing report such as quarter spending report.
- Other related tasks as assigned