Assistant Procurement Manager

Purpose of the role

At Suntory, you have the opportunity to work with talented, inspiring leaders and have the freedom to dream big and think differently. Together, we strive to make an impact, crating our future together.

This position is expected to lead indirect procurement function for Suntory Beverage and Food Malaysia (for Beverage & Health Enrichment) is also expected to support the indirect procurement sourcing process in Singapore/ Hong Kong from time to time. This role is crucial in ensuring governance to the procurement process and also to build an agile sourcing strategy on how to manage the indirect material category effectively. As a result this function is expected to provide some savings to the company especially from indirect material procurement. This role will report to Head of Procurement.

Job Responsibilities

The key responsibilities include:

Indirect Procurement Strategy

Leads sourcing activities including timelines and deliverables to drive best value and effectively communicate status, work activities, and issues to key stakeholders/ management.

Managing the supplier selection and sourcing process negotiating commercial and contractual terms.

Develop and build up preferred supplier list per different application.

Collaborate interdepartmentally as new projects are developed to identify sources and/ supplier competency requirements.

Develop agile approach to sourcing while using analytics and processes to determine scenarios, benefits, risk and impact to meet business needs.

Establish and manage supplier relationship and ensuring success of the overall sourcing strategy.

Building Governance on Indirect Procurement

Define procurement policy and also implement the policy on the indirect procurement activities.

Define and support system (IT Solution) and business process for indirect procurement.

Ensure implementation of the chart of authority on procurement process.

Position must exhibit a high level of awareness/ knowledge of compliance with key departmental process and procedure related to the overall sourcing P2P cycle.

Business Support

Proactively interact with internal partners to ensure an efficient order process.

Help coordinate with AP and vendors to resolve open invoice issues.

Assist System Administrator to trouble shoot SAP system errors including testing and help with problem solving activities.

Support any other regional projects in relation to P2P enhancement.

Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will possess the following

• Degree in Business Administration or Management

Relevant Experience:

• Total min. 6 years of experience in managing procurement function.
• Min. 3 - 5 years in FMCG industry.

Functional / Technical Skills requirements:

• Good knowledge of FMCG, esp. beverage industry
• Good understanding of financial statement analysis and reporting
• Understanding SAP
• Understanding procurement process