Assistant Procurement Manager

Responsibilities:1. Category management and sourcingLogistics & Supply Chain: freight, 3PL, warehousing and last mileMarketing: overall marketing agency categoryTechnology: software and SaaS, implementation and integration, managed services, cloud and digital platformsBuild fact-based category strategies covering spend baseline, supplier landscape, cost drivers, market dynamicsRun competitive sourcing events end-to-end: briefing, RFI, RFP and RFQ, cost breakdowns, evaluation criteria and weightings, scoring, recommendation and awardLead and support commercial negotiations on total cost of ownership, including demand management, specification challenge and consolidation opportunitiesWork with Legal to paper what we buy, covering standard templates, terms, renewals and expiries, and keep the contract record current for your categoriesEstablish supplier performance management for key suppliers through scorecards, business reviews and improvement plans2. Process improvement and source-to-payDesign and continuously improve the upstream source-to-pay process: intake, requisition, approvals, purchase orders and goods receiptDigitalise the procurement toolkit, including the requisition, new vendor request, sourcing waiver, vendor assessment and tender pack, and build the routing behind them in Concur and lightweight workflow toolsDrive purchase order discipline and policy complianceSupport the roll-out of the Group Procurement Policy and its supporting SOPs, and act as a first point of contact for the business on how to buy3. Data, analytics and reportingOwn the Group spend baseline by extracting, cleansing, categorising and maintaining spend, supplier and contract data drawn from finance and AP systemsTurn data into usable answers on supplier concentration, tail spend, price and volume variance, contract coverage, compliance rates, pipeline and savingsBuild and maintain procurement dashboards and the monthly reporting pack for the CFO and the Management CommitteeWork with FP&A to define, validate and track budget4. Stakeholder ManagementPartner with Marketing, Logistics, IT, Store Operations, Projects, Legal and Finance as a commercial adviserWork across markets with teams in Singapore and the wider regionRequirements:Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering or a related fieldProfessional certification such as CIPS, CPSM, or Lean and Six Sigma is advantageousMinimum 8 years in indirect procurement, with hands-on ownership of categories and sourcing events from end-to-endFMCG, Consumer goods, Retail, fashion, or fast-moving, multi-market environment is advantageousExposure to logistics, marketing and/or technology categories is advantageousFamiliar with AI toolsAdvanced Excel: Pivot tables, lookups, Power QueryExperience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or Python is an advantageExperience in process improvement or transformation, whether process redesign, digitalisation, Lean or Six Sigma is advantageousWorking knowledge of P2P or S2P platforms such as Concur, SAP, Ariba, Coupa or Ivalua is an advantage