Procurement Manager - Sales and Marketing

About your role

The Procurement Manager- Sale & Marketing plans, sources, selects, and negotiates with suppliers to ensure that performance meets requirements in a cost-effective manner for the Sale (Below the Line) and Marketing Category (Above the Line).  The role includes influencing internal stakeholders on demand management, source selection and vendor strategies; negotiating the best overall commercial arrangement with suppliers, developing and maintaining relationships with vendors/suppliers for long-term contracts. 

What You'll Do

Planning
- Engage with key stakeholders in the early stage of the sourcing process to ensure a complete alignment of objectives and expectations
- Lead the team to forecast on future demand and place orders in a timely manner and align with stakeholders. 
- Regular communicate with stakeholders to update on any changes and adjust the plan accordingly. 
- Participate in budget development of the company to support strategic goals.

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management
- Propose workable Category Strategy/Right model to Leadership/ Stakeholder, lead strategy execution 
- Conduct spend analysis activities to identify opportunities for spend consolidation in order to look for cost savings possibilities.
- Work with end-users to understand business requirements and constantly look for opportunities to rationalise demand across the business
- Ensure each of category/sub-category manager in the team conduct market analysis to understand the market size, scale and suppliers' capabilities of their assigned categories.
- Work with Sourcing staffs to document category historic spend and the total cost of ownership (TCO) for key category products and services to identify savings opportunities within assigned Sourcing category.
- Responsible for negotiation of best possible cost service guarantee and develop "win-win" strategies that achieve sustainable relationships with suppliers.
- Develop Service Level Agreements with contracted suppliers to promote an environment of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Formulate effective sourcing strategies that accomplish performance and savings goals, anticipate potential threats or opportunities, and are consistent with department goals and policies.
- Forecast and manage all the sourcing risks, especially risks when inducing new suppliers

Contract Management
- Facilitate contract execution with key category suppliers to ensure that required terms and conditions are included and that contract termination dates are tracked and managed.

Supplier Management
- Monitor the supply base and lead the team to continuously look for opportunities to rationalise the number of suppliers.
- Develop a supplier management program with key suppliers including metrics, performance goals and improvement initiatives.
-  Manage supplier performance evaluation to ensure their performance meet business demand
- Segment the suppliers into different groups based on their characteristics and identify strategies to manage relationship with those suppliers accordingly.
Service Level
- Lead supplier performance to accelerate Speed to Market with clear alignment to drive exceptional process simplification
Procedure Compliance
Ensure the team comply Procurement Policy and SOP with no violation on company procedure

People Development
- Leverage management experience to build skills in collaboration and working effectively with cross functions members to deliver the goals successfully.
- Provide training session for process/policy updates to all staffs, on-job coaching to new staffs and guidance to under-performed staffs.
- Promote team bonding and engage team members to work and co-operate with others effectively in order to achieve strategic goals and business plans
- Lead team Gemba activity at suppliers/ market to catch up market trend and propose workable innovative idea/ strategy

What You need to be successful

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Operations Management and/or preferred to be major in Supply Chain, Procurement. 
  5+ Years experience in team leading roles in administration or procurement related function 
• Procurement Competency framework: 
  - Spend Analysis
  - Contract Management
  - Supplier Management & Development
  - Specification Development and Evaluation 
  - Tender/Bid Evaluation
  - Category Management
  - Demand Management
  - Market Analysis
  - Strategy Development

Our DEI Commitment

At Suntory, we recognize that diverse knowledge, perspectives, and backgrounds contribute to our collective success. We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where all individuals can bring their whole selves to work every day, regardless of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or any other protected characteristic.

Our recruitment and selection processes are designed to highlight what Suntory offers as an employer while allowing candidates to share their unique skills and experiences. We understand that career trajectories vary, and if you believe your experience/background can benefit our team, we encourage you to apply. We endeavor to make our interview process as inclusive as possible and offer reasonable accommodations as needed. Together, we can cultivate a workplace where everyone can thrive and propel our mission of Growing for Good.