Job description:
Key Responsibilities
Sourcing and Category Management Support
- Assist in implementing technology sourcing and category strategies to drive savings and mitigate risks.
- Coordinate end-to-end sourcing events, including the preparation of RFPs, evaluations, and supporting strategic negotiations.
- Monitor technology buying trends and supplier innovations to provide data-driven recommendations for future-proofing strategies.
- Conduct regular performance reviews and manage remediation plans to ensure vendors deliver sustained value.
- Support the contract management process to ensure commercial strength, compliance, and scalability.
- Facilitate renewal planning with contract owners to ensure proactive expiry management and timely re-negotiations.
- Identify bottlenecks in the sourcing lifecycle and propose solutions to improve operational efficiency.
- Maintain sourcing guidelines, playbooks and templates such as SoW templates and evaluation scorecards.
Purchase Request (PR) and Purchase Order (PO) Administration
- Take a lead role in executing the end-to-end Purchase Order (PO) process specifically for the Taiwan region, ensuring all regional procurement activities align with local requirements and company standards.
- Assist the Manager in monitoring the team's processing of Purchase Requests (PR) to Purchase Orders (PO) to ensure they are released within set turnaround times.
- Track outstanding POs for timely delivery and ensure proper closure within the Procurement System.
- Act as a liaison to resolve discrepancies between internal stakeholders and external vendors.
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate closely with Technology team, business stakeholders and category leads across company to ensure critical Technology sourcing/contracting activities are fully supported.
- Build and maintain strong credibility by driving results through collaboration, transparency, and strategic stakeholder alignment.
- Communicate sourcing plans and vendor performance insights effectively across internal stakeholders.
Process Management
- Support the Manager as a product owner for the technology procurement platform, assisting with system roadmap execution and improvement recommendations.
- Improve sourcing and contracting workflows to enhance operational efficiency and turnaround times for Technology Category.
- Strengthen renewal planning processes with Technology Contract Owners to ensure proactive expiry management and timely re-negotiations.
- Identify bottlenecks, pain points and governance gaps within the sourcing and contract lifecycle for new technology contracts or renewals and propose actionable solutions.
- Create and maintain Technology Category sourcing guidelines and playbook to ensure consistency and strategic alignment.
- Support sourcing governance reporting where necessary, helping track expiry status, sourcing events pipeline and vendor compliance.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, Purchasing, Sourcing or Business Administration.
Skills & Abilities
- Strategic thinker with strong hands-on execution capabilities.
- Self-driven, energetic, curious and business-minded.
- Strong knowledge of sourcing and contracting tools/platforms.
- Deep understanding of IT contracts, licensing and buying channels especially for cloud, SaaS, software and infrastructure services.
- Good awareness of market dynamics, supplier models and sourcing trends in the Technology category.
- Strong commercial and financial skills, including cost benchmarking, supplier financial review and contractual risk management.
- Able to assess business value, prioritize initiatives and anticipate implementation challenges.
- Strong collaboration skills with the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships.
- Resilient under pressure, able to manage multiple sourcing and contracting initiatives in fast-paced environments.
Expected Minimum Years of Experience
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Technology category management and procurement operations roles.
