About this role
About the role
This position has responsibility for the indirect spend portfolio of categories assigned. The Indirect Spend covers all technical, non-technical and service spend (beside categories managed at Regional or Group level) such as Capex and MRO, Packaging, Energy, Facility Management, lab consumables/services/equipment, G&A related spend, and in general any spend beside the direct spend. The Senior Buyer Indirect Spend will report with a solid line to the Purchasing Manager Indirect Spend located in Pasir Gudang.
Key responsibilities include
- Analyze historical spend data and budget for the categories assigned, and define strategies - Yearly
- Manage contracts (Pos) related to Indirect Spend in the categories assigned - daily
- Understand market forces, research and evaluate vendors - daily
- Apply the purchasing process flows in line with the category strategy - daily
- Define particular terms and conditions - daily
- Negotiate proposals and finalize contracts – daily, monthly, yearly
- Support supplier relationship management and drive value creation through supplier innovation – weekly, monthly
- Drive continuous improvements (cost and service) of assigned sourcing categories – daily
- Monitor and report savings results – monthly
- Manage contracts related to wastes sales – annually, on request
- Develop and implement sourcing strategies to ensure the most efficient procurement of the spend categories assigned, at the best TCO.
- Create and manage ongoing action plans to continuously reduce categories costs according to the targets assigned.
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and work closely with them to ensure good collaboration with Purchasing.
- Ensure the relevant purchasing practices are applied for the categories in scope (strategic, tactical, spot buy) and manage “hands-on” the categories assigned.
- Ensure compliance with the Group purchasing processes.
- Generate reports on regular and ad-hoc basis.
- Maintain up-to-date documentation of all purchases and perform supplier performance reviews.
- Manage performance and relationships with the suppliers, to ensure that the facilities have the right supplier base, delivering the right performance (service, quality, TCO).
- Ensure a strict “house-keeping” for the categories assigned (compliance on controls, open POs, etc.)
- Support and/or lead issues resolution between suppliers and internal stakeholders.
- Support on ad-hoc basis other projects for the country/region
About you
- Language: English written and spoken fluently.
- Knowledge in Ms Office Suite is a must.
- Knowledge in SAP and/or Maximo is a plus.
- Engineer / Bachelor degree in technical field is a plus.
- Solid experience of minimum 5/10 years in indirect spend purchasing in an international company (preferably in food / pharmaceutical / chemical industries).
- High interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in team environment.
- Entrepreneurship
- Leadership and management
- Autonomy
- Excellent negotiation skills
- Stakeholder management
- Result orientation
- Change management
- Adaptability
- Analytical skills