Procurement Operations Manager

Our client vision is to be the world’s best performing snacks-led powerhouse, unleashing the full potential of their differentiated brands.

Powered by their strategy to Differentiate, Drive & Deliver, they are a leading company in global snacking, international cereal and noodles, and North America frozen foods, with iconic, world-class brands and strong underlying growth momentum and profitability.

Our client purpose is to create better days and a place at the table for everyone through their trusted foods brands.

As part of this purpose, they are committed to advancing sustainable & equitable access to food by creating Better Days for 4 billion people by the end of 2030.

Responsibilities:

Primary Function :

• Lead the procurement function for Pringles plant at Bandar Enstek, Malaysia. Act as focal point between regional procurement and local plant team
• Manage all local procurement activities, including ad hoc sourcing, negotiations and contracting for items not in scope for regional category manager, issue resolution, local supplier management, shipment expediting, materials claim management and etc.
• Support the sourcing strategy of the regional and global procurement sourcing team.
• Connect plant stakeholders with MSP (managed service provider) for IDM STP support (Source-to-PO)
• Advocate the global procurement policies (GPP) and responsible to educate the BU requesters on the GPP policy and compliances
• Work with BU stakeholders, Category Managers, Process and Systems Lead, Procurement Operations Lead to identify efficiency and cost reduction opportunities
• Manage supplier relationship and performance

Principal Duties & Responsibilities :

• Deliver upon targets and KPIs set by snacks supply chain and regional procurement
• Attend plant supply chain deployment meetings
• Comply with GMP and continuously improve our Food Safety Programme
• Participate in Regional Sourcing activities and ensure regional / local execution knowledge and strategic input
• Lead the execution and implementation of procurement sourcing strategy
• Leverage regional procurement team to drive values
• Aid in local supplier searches
• Manage interactions with key suppliers
• Manage financial reporting of procurement function
• Manage transactional coordinators and balances workload within the team
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures
• Deliver policy and process trainings to key stakeholders
• Work closely with key customers to communicate process
• Use data from Process and Systems team to set targets and drive KPIs
• Work with shared services to standardize and automate tactical activities over time
• Suppliers KPIs and service quality and performance improvement plan

Requirements:

Professional :

• Undergraduate Degree Required and minimum of 7 years of related work experience within Procurement

Technical/Functional:

• More of Procurement generalist than a specialist.
• Knowledge of order to payment technologies (P2P, SAP) and other procurement digital tools.
• Sound procurement skills (negotiation, supplier management).
• General knowledge of the supplier market in associated country.
• Comprehensive knowledge of purchasing and basic understanding of supply chain management.
• Financial tracking and reporting skill.
• Team player.
• Passionate about process improvement.
• Strong detail orientation.
• Excels at continuous cost reduction/process improvement.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skill.
• Effective at cross-functional teamwork.
• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Powerpoint and Excel.
• Ability to navigate with ambiguity.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to work independently and with a sense of urgency.
• Comfortable with conflict.
• Strong service oriented approach, with timely responsiveness.
• Ability to engage and collaborate with team members and stakeholders from a distance.