APAC Indirect Procurement Manager

What you’ll do:

• Leads the development, management, and governance of indirect procurement strategies and standardized supply chain processes across APAC, driving regional strategies through cross-country stakeholder alignment and collaboration to deliver cost-effective and scalable solutions. Develops long-term category and sourcing strategies and performance metrics, ensuring effective deployment and alignment with Supply Chain Management priorities and business requirements across APAC operations. 
• Develop and execute APAC indirect procurement and category strategies aligned with business objectives, including growth, cost-out, supply continuity, operational excellence, and compliance.
• Lead and coordinate end-to-end sourcing and procurement activities for capital and other complex indirect projects across APAC, partnering with country/site teams and suppliers to ensure compliance, competitiveness, and timely execution.
• Conduct regional market intelligence and commodity trend analysis to support sourcing decisions, identify risks, and implement mitigation plans for key indirect categories.
• Partner with site stakeholders to understand demand forecasts, business requirements, and growth plans, translating regional and local requirements into effective category strategies and sourcing roadmaps.
• Collaborate with plant teams to identify cost-out opportunities, execute savings initiatives across indirect categories, and drive achievement of regional supply chain KPIs.
• Analyze spend data, prioritize sourcing opportunities, launch sourcing initiatives, and lead negotiations for complex projects in partnership with plant buyers.
• Engage proactively with internal customers and stakeholders to minimize operational disruption, reduce equipment downtime and supply continuity risks, and optimize total cost of ownership.
• Drive continuous improvement across procurement processes, team practices, and stakeholder engagement to improve efficiency, compliance, scalability, and regional consistency.
• Establish and monitor key procurement performance metrics to evaluate process effectiveness, supplier performance, cost competitiveness, and risk exposure.
• Communicate and collaborate with regional and global Supply Chain teams to align opportunities, best practices, and execution plans with overall category strategies.
• Participate in risk assessment and risk management activities with project teams, global supply chain leaders, and commodity managers to support business continuity.
• Lead governance reviews with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with SCM policies, strengthen supplier performance, and enhance customer satisfaction.
• Leverage data analytics, digital tools, and automation opportunities to improve procurement visibility, decision-making, and functional excellence.
• Lead the APAC deployment of global procurement initiatives, translating enterprise direction into effective regional and local implementation while ensuring stakeholder alignment, adoption, and achievement of business objectives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, or Engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 5 years’ professional experience in indirect purchase Management covering all indirect categories
• Demonstrates strong knowledge of current trends and best practices in indirect procurement and supply chain management.
• Exhibits excellent communication, customer service and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, (internal and at the suppliers), operations and supply chain management personnel.
• Demonstrates ability in strategic process creation and implementation.
• Demonstrates knowledge and experience in successfully deploying category strategies and driving cost-out.
• Demonstrates ability to lead cross-functional in the development, implementation, and achievement of business results for cross-functional business initiatives and category strategies.
• Must be able to take a leadership role in driving change in the organization.
• Must be a creative thinker and have a vision of how to drive the organization to the next level of strategic procurement management.
• Must have a demonstrated ability in the area of strategic process creation and implementation
• Must demonstrate a bias for action and implementation
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks regionally and globally
• Must be able to identify and implement emerging supply management tools.
• Must have strong motivation and mentoring skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Must have the ability to direct or indirectly lead and manage people within the organization

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