Regional Procurement Business Partner - APAC

Responsibilities

• ● ALTEN Group is a world leader in Engineering and Technology consulting services providing outsourced Engineering, R&D, and IT Services for different industries such as Transportation, Defence, Energy and Security with 55,000 engineers in nearly 35 countries.
• ● As a Regional Procurement Business Partner - APAC, you will be the primary link between Global Category Management and business operations across Asia-Pacific. The role deploys approved global category strategies regionally, builds trusted stakeholder relationships, supports supplier and agreement adoption, and brings regional demand, market intelligence, regulatory considerations and execution risks into global category decisions. The role works closely with the Global Category Excellence & Deployment Lead on deployment plans, playbooks, governance, KPIs and corrective actions, and with Global Category Leads on category roadmaps, sourcing initiatives, supplier transitions and regional requirements. The role owns regional stakeholder engagement, adoption and execution of approved strategies; Global Category Leads retain category-strategy ownership.
• ● Regional Strategy Deployment
• ● Develop and execute regional deployment plans aligned with approved global category strategies.
• ● Coordinate implementation of sourcing initiatives, supplier transitions, preferred-supplier programmes and long-term agreements.
• ● Monitor milestones, dependencies, risks and adoption, and escalate barriers requiring category or leadership decisions.
• ● Strategic Business Partnership
• ● Serve as the primary procurement partner for assigned Training Centres and regional Operations stakeholders.
• ● Build trusted relationships, understand upcoming demand and connect business priorities to category and sourcing actions.
• ● Lead stakeholder engagement and change activities that support adoption and business continuity.
• ● Collaboration with Global Category Management
• ● Partner with the Global Category Excellence & Deployment Lead to apply common playbooks, governance, KPI definitions and corrective-action discipline.
• ● Partner with Global Category Leads to translate approved category roadmaps into regional actions and provide evidence-based demand, market, supplier and regulatory insight.
• ● Provide execution feedback and lessons learned to improve category plans and deployment methods.
• ● Supplier Governance & Compliance
• ● Drive use of approved suppliers, agreements and buying channels.
• ● Support supplier classification, rationalisation, consolidation and performance-improvement activity.
• ● Identify non-compliant or after-the-fact buying patterns and coordinate corrective action with stakeholders, Category Leads, Local Buyers and Sourcing Execution.
• ● Key Performance Indicators
• ● Percentage of approved regional deployment milestones completed on time.