Bids & Project Procurement Manager

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Thales people architect solutions that support 85 million mainline and suburban passenger journeys, worldwide, every day. Our Rail Signalling and Communication systems are used on metro lines across major cities, and 72,000 kms of route, 52,000 trains per day in 16 countries are controlled by our Traffic Management Systems. Together We deployed the first-ever nationwide ticketing system which processes over 50 million ticketing transactions in 100 cities daily.

Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

The Procurement Product / Bid / Project Manager reports to the Procurement Organization and to:

- The Product Line Manager or the Product Manager or the Product Development Manager, when involved in products (located in BLs)
- The Head of Bids or a Bid Manager, when involved in Bids (located in Domains)
- The Project Manager when involved in Projects (located in Domains)

Key Figures:

- The turnover of the Bids / Projects or Products he works for
- The amount of procurement for these Bids / Projects or Products
- The savings, coming from the suppliers, on the costs of the solutions designed

The Procurement Product / Bid / Project Manager’s main mission is to develop and promote Thales procurement competitiveness internally as well as externally (customer, consortia, etc...). His main tasks are:

- To challenge the acquisition needs and requirements and to promote design to cost analysis with the suppliers, during the definition phase of the solution, in order to increase the competitiveness of the solution and to define the acquisition strategy whilst taking into account:

- The offer available on the market / the accessible innovations or breakthroughs on the market
- The Make or Buy analysis (both structural and project-oriented)
- The prime contract requirements, with an appropriate flow down according to the acquisition context
- The access to Market criteria (KIP, partnership, ToT, )
- The Thales Group Procurement policies
- The acquisition needs within the Bid/ Project / Product, to organize these needs into Procurement work packages
- The legal and regulatory requirements (export control, environmental rules, social regulations )
- To validate the availability of offers on the maket of the product or project design.
- To define the resulting acquisition plan, in order to optimize the cost of the Procurement parts, with the support of the Global Category Managers/Category Managers/Category Buyers
- To commit the Procurement Directorate to the cost and competitiveness of the Procurement part (in BID phase) through the Procurement Executive Summary (PES) presented at Gate 2
- To execute the acquisition plan (in project phase / product development and production phase) in accordance with the allocated targets ( Time, Quality, Total Cost of Ownership, Risks & Opportunities ) and update the procurement dashboard
- To liaise with operational teams and Category Buyers to monitor the execution of the Procurement plan
- To define and monitor the contractual requirements of the acquisition
- To comply with the “Manage Acquisition” process as per Chorus 2 and use the acquisition tools in place in the organization ( e-Acquisition, ERP, ) for all activities