Category Buyer

23 hours ago

Singapore THALES SOLUTIONS ASIA PTE. LTD. Full time
Roles & Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- The CATEGORY MANAGER (CM) supports one or several procurement categories.

- The CM works in close relation with the relevant Global Category Managers (GCM) , the Category(ies) Team Leader (CTL) and the Buyer Analyst.

- All CM actions have to be in line with the strategy defined by the Global Category Manager and the CM will have a regular feed back loop with the GCM. The CM's prime role is the management of the RFI or/and RFP's until PVet 5 stage for business critical work packages in order to provide competitiveness to the business

In addition to this their main tasks are:

Strategy:


• Provide input into the worldwide category strategies for short, medium and long term needs


• Ensure the relevant players have a good knowledge of Thales need and support the category strategy so that the business secures targeted projects and customer competitive advantage.


• Ensure that clear and measurable savings targets are identified and delivered by category and endorsed by business / project.


• Ensure category commitment and spend compliance tracking is well reported.

Procurement Competitiveness Capture:


• Monitor the category markets on an on-going basis to identify and understand key players, newcomers, economic evolutions, market or regulation constraints, innovations and technology in order to support the development of the most up to date category strategy for the businesses.


• Based on the above provide insights as to how products / projects could be more competitive via the adoption of different suppliers / methodologies / technology etc.


• In conjunction with the Product, Bids and Project Procurement Managers and cross functional teams, the CM supports the preparation of Make / Buy decisions (lead by the PPM) in order to optimise business performance.

Governance, Leadership and Performance Management:


• Ensure THALES governance is applied using KPI's and root cause corrective actions

Supplier / Acquisition Management:


• Performance management of the supply base in line with the GCM.


• Ensure that supplier competitions follow THALES group process and are balanced and fair in order to improve business and customer performance.


• Ensure that the supplier contracts and framework agreements are negotiated when required in line with the category strategies.


• Ensure that global contracts / framework agreements are adopted and utilised.


• Ensure that specific legal compliance government or special customer requirements are taken into

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