Procurement Manager

Job Position: Procurement Manager - HC SEA Portfolio

Scope: SEA - Home Care

Function: SEA HC BU, Procurement

Reports to: Procurement Director - HC SEA BU

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Business Context and Main Purpose of the Job

Home Care SEA+I Business Unit (HC SEA BU) has a coverage of more than 2bEU TO. With iconic brands such as Breeze, Omo, Surf, Sunlight and more. We are actively transforming our category to be future-fit, and our purpose is “Clean Home. Clean Planet. Clean Future”, and we want to lead in greener, effortless and delightful solutions for future homes in SEA.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of locally managed suppliers who provide materials and capabilities for use in our Home Care products, within this scope, examples include Sulfonators / Sulfators and Distributors in the region, with whom you would need to manage the E2E procurement process.

You will use your business acumen to develop and drive a solid procurement strategy that helps to deliver sustainable growth, profitability, resilience and competitiveness to our business. We have a big agenda to evaluate backward integration opportunities which you will play a central role to define and execute. You will be supported by a global network of Procurement professionals and material specialists, and will be expected to mobilize our network of cross-functional teams to achieve our ambitions.

You will be reporting to the Head of Procurement - Home Care SEA. Beyond procurement, you will be working closely with cross function teams across supply chain, marketing, R&D and more, with very significant visibility and impact. So a strong sense of ownership, independence, communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills are a must.

Main Accountabilities

This position has deliverables in the following areas:
Business Impact
- Lead end to end procurement process for some materials & capabilities.
- Study and develop backward integration opportunities for the region
- Ensure availability of material as per forecast for all materials under the portfolio.
- Support the innovation requirements of the categories and business.
- Drive portfolio saving agenda, including ideation, reporting savings, monitoring projects.

Supplier Management
- Lead key supplier relationships.
- Supplier selection and approval process with the R&D and Supply Chain colleagues
- Lead compliance agenda, ensure compliance on Responsible Sourcing, Quality, Service.
- Develop and monitor supplier improvement plan, support in negotiations

Market Intelligence
- Develop strategies for key materials, including complex global strategies.
- Gather information from industry, suppliers for developing insights for material strategies.
- Perform cost modelling, benchmarking analysis, to optimize the end-to-end value chain.

Operational Excellence
- Lead resolution of issues related to service, quality and E2E procurement process.
- Run quarterly tenders across key suppliers/materials, including leveraging E-Tender tools.
- Actively manage, create, update suppliers contract in SAP CLM, ensure all Purchasing Agreements & Commercial Terms Contracts in place by liaising closely with legal team.
- Price forecasting, variance analysis, communicating clearly external insights to business.

Team and People Development
- Lead team on operational excellence, unlock capacity towards strategic interventions.
- Build talent pool for not only procurement but also for supply chain competency. Develop and provide opportunity for team members to progress on development plans.
- Positive influence towards Procurement community in across SEA

Direct Reports

1 x Assistant Manager in Thailand

Key Interfaces
- Suppliers
- BU, Portfolio, S&I Procurement teams
- SC, R&D Legal and Finance teams

Key Skills
- Sourcing Direct &/or Indirect Spend, OR Procurement Leadership.
- Business Story Telling: Strong ability to present complex topics in an effective and concise manner, effective strategic influencing at all levels, grounded through financial acumen and credibility.
- Negotiation, Objection Management: Ability to find common ground and commercially acceptable solutions, with risk identification and management.
- Team Leadership: Promote a shared vision and inspires others to embrace learning, experimentation, development.
- Creative Problem Solving: awareness and intervention through the value chain to seek disruptive, impactful solutions.
- Personal Effectiveness: Effective and proven strategic planning, ability to learn quickly, handle multiple tasks and assignments simultaneously, resilient and determined towards success. Calm in the face of ambiguity.
- Familiarity with business and contract law as applied to supplier relationships.
- Proficient with productivity tools, data analysis, create insights from data.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required
- Working with virtual teams

Relevant Experience
- University degree
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