Senior Manager, Group Procurement

2 weeks ago


Central Singapore Sembcorp Industries Full time
Singapore, Central, Singapore

  • Department
  • Group Procurement
  • Job posted on
  • Apr 15, 2024
  • Employment type
  • Permanent
    Purpose and Scope
Sembcorp is seeking a Senior Procurement/Category Manager to join the Group Procurement team. This role is based in Singapore and will be responsible for fulfilling the category management for Sembcorp Industrial Group. Spend categories under management includes MRO & EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction), Technical Consultancy and other assigned categories. This role is part of the Group Procurement team, reporting into Group Procurement Head.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

  • Define category and supplier strategy
  • Collate market insights, supplier and business requirements to formulate strategy jointly with Market Procurement, mainly for renewable energy categories. Accountable for developing strategies and leading initiatives for the assigned categories in alignment to company's strategies to gain buyoff from respective stakeholders. Timely refresh of category strategies with the changing business requirement and external factors, ensuring a sustainable supply chain and support the development of strategic supplier relationships.


Business Partnering
  • Actively engaging business stakeholders and market procurement leads to understanding business priorities and guide stakeholders to propose and execute the operational strategies with consideration to risk mitigation and governance. Provide market insights to business stakeholders for business strategic planning.


Business delivery
  • Achieving greatest value contribution and realize the benefits from the category strategies. Fulfillment of business goals through patterning and ensure key business requirements including project Cost, Quality, Time and Safety are met.
  • Supplier & Contract Management Lead RFx creation/management, market research/analysis, data collection/analysis, and contract management (cost, terms and conditions, SOWs, MSAs, etc.). Lead supplier negotiations, performance, and relationship management.


New Supplier Development
  • Identify new potential suppliers and develop suppliers. This includes starts up. Keep up to date on market trends and technology advancement.
  • Group Standards and Policy
  • Work with GCoE, Group Center of Excellence to establish technical standards and ensure Group Policies and standards are deployed. Execute set Source to Contract process.


Group Functional Assurance
  • Act as a functional assurance for procurement in project reviews, support business to achieve optimum business results and supply chain risk mitigation


People Development
  • Support Head of Group Procurement in competency building across the globe. Set as a procurement leadership role model.

Major Challenges

  • Obtain buyin from business stakeholders.
  • Work in agile and cost competitive environment.

Key Decisions & Dimensions

  • Develop category strategies and gain support from business for strategy execution.
  • Business requirement gathering and translate this to category needs.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Degree/Diploma holder with minimum 10 years of relevant procurement experience.
  • Strong team player with strong communication with concise message.
  • Confident in managing and executing multiyear projects from start to finish with tight deadlines.
  • Resourceful with a strong work ethic, committed to complete execution of projects and objectives.
  • Project management knowledge with ability to influence internal senior stakeholders.
  • Proven track record on category management for EPC, MRO, Opex/Capex spend preferably in renewable energy, oil and gas or chemical industries.
  • Proven capability in managing complex negotiations and contract management.
  • Strong supplier performance and relationship management.
  • Ability to work in crosscultural setting.
  • Change management and process improvement skills.
  • Based in Singapore, with periodic travel required.

Preferred Skills & Characteristics

  • Customer focused and results oriented with growth mindset
  • Effective presentation and negotiation skills.
  • Experience and/or knowledge with EPC, MRO and Capex spend.
  • Familiarity with procurement systems (e.g. SAP Material Management and SAP Ariba).


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