• The role will support procurement management in Vietnam and Philippines, formulate and drive a consistent approach towards all sourcing, purchasing and tendering activities within the business, ultimately ensuring that value for money is maximized and cost savings are generated.
• The role will ensure strong and collaborative relationships are built and maintained with relevant Business stakeholders, proper coordination between the Procurement teams (Regional Category, Cluster Procurement Manager, Global Procurement Services) to optimise support to the Business in the market and will work to define and deliver on priorities and local Projects.

Typical Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Responsible for maintaining a corporate procurement and material management process for the procurement of indirect goods and services.

Sourcing:

• Ensures compliance with organizational procedures associated with the sourcing process.
• Recommends appropriate sourcing strategies for each category to develop Preferred Vendor List.
• Evaluates market factors influencing the supply market to assist the development of appropriate sourcing plans that shape markets & improves commercial leverage.
• Deliver benefits within sourcing, cost management, supplier relationship management, supplier development and innovation.
• Contract Management
• Support Internal Stakeholder develops appropriate agreements consider short- & long-term implications, advises on contract terms for the supply of goods & services.
• Review process for creating contracts to ensure all legal requirements are compiled with & recommends any required changes with legal, compliance, finance, and relevant function.
• Contributes to the completion of commercial agreements, tracking contract approval & storage.

Finance, Cost Management & Spend Analysis:

• Understands basic financial concepts & cost structure to achieve value for money outcomes.
• Manage vendor to deliver cash generation target.
• Analyses spend through the process of collecting, cleansing, classifying & analyzing expenditure data with the purpose of decreasing procurement costs, improving efficiency, & monitoring compliance.

Supplier Relationship & Risk Management:

• Manage Third Party Risk Management (3PRM) process in market, support stakeholder to ensure vendor are gone through appropriate due diligence process prior to being set up for transaction.
• Responsible for supplier segmentation, managing suppliers within the segments to ensure that we provide a consistent approach that allows us to manage against key deliverables in the Supplier performance, identify any risks or opportunities with the Supplier and plan the most appropriate way to work with the Supplier to achieve the best partnership result possible for AZ.
• Manage and develop performance of suppliers.
• Purchase to Pay
• Implement no PO-no Pay policy
• Support day to day process in country, resolve operational concerns (block transaction, deliveries, claims, etc.)

Essential

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Degree level qualification.
  
• Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management
• Leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Ability to communicate and negotiate with internal and external stakeholder.
• Proven ability to manage change
• Significant cross-category experience.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing (Good communication skill in both Vietnamese and English)
• Expert in contract terms and conditions.
• Skilful in computer software: Excel, Words, Powerpoint etc
  
  

Desirable

• Professional Procurement/Supply Chain Cert is preferred
• Understanding of multiple aspects of procurement process
• Hard working & Integrity
• Detailed & Careful
• Knowledge of Procurement System preferred

APPLY HERE