Procurement Manager

Responsibilities

• ● Partner with internal and external stakeholders to align sourcing strategies, demand planning, pricing, and supply requirements with business objectives.
• ● Provide market intelligence and commodity insights to support business planning, decision-making, innovation, and new product development initiatives.
• ● Develop and execute category strategies to optimize cost, quality, value, and supply performance.
• ● Lead supplier selection, negotiations, contract management, and supplier performance reviews while ensuring compliance with procurement policies and governance standards.
• ● Develop and maintain supplier partnerships to enhance supply continuity, collaboration, and communication.
• ● Ensure supply continuity through effective forecasting, supplier collaboration, inventory management, and contingency planning.
• ● Identify and mitigate supply chain, market, quality, and operational risks to support business continuity.
• ● Carry out suppliers' evaluation to ensure supplier compliance with company requirement in price, quality service and safety.
• ● Drive procurement process excellence through effective governance, controls, systems.
• ● Utilize data and analytics to monitor performance, identify improvement opportunities, and support informed decision-making.
• ● Identify and champion cost reduction projects, including periodic updates for management.
• ● Monitor market trends and negotiate favorable material pricing to support cost objectives.
• ● Promote responsible sourcing practices and supplier engagement to support sustainability and ESG objectives.
• ● Drive environmental, social, and ethical sourcing initiatives across the supplier base in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• ● Implement and abide by requirements set out in the Company's Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety Management System, ISO and OHSAS standards and applicable legal and other requirements.