Procurement Asia, Director

**_Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you. _**

**Working Arrangement**

Hybrid

**The Opportunity
The Asia Procurement team is looking for a **Category Lead, Corporate and Operations **who will develop strategy and execution of category management activities and cost management initiatives focus on Corporate categories (Marketing HR Services, Real Estate & Facilities )

**What motivates you?**
- You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit
- You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile mindset and enable business outcomes
- You thrive in teams, and enjoy getting things done together
- You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters
- You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up
- You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone

**We are looking for someone with**:

- University graduate in Business /Laws/Supply Chain Management/Computer Science/Quantity Surveying/Hospitality or other relevant degrees to specific categories.
- Relevant advanced degree or professional certification such as CIPS/CPSM would be of advantage.
- Over 10 years of experience in managing end-to-end sourcing and high spend strategic negotiations of Indirect categories, at strategic level in large multinational corporation, financial service industry experiences is more preferred
- Experiences on leading a regional team and collaborating with local country teams
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Ability to present and influence with top level internal and external parties.
- Strong cost and risk management
- Self-motivated team player, who has energy and drive, also able to motivate and get the best out of a multi-functional team and matrix organization.
- Capable of operating in a dynamic environment and able to balance short-term business needs with the long-term requirements of our business.
- Excellent English verbal and written communication skills. Asian language skills would be an advantage.

**On the job you will**:

- Support to build the sourcing and procurement organization including but not limited to target operating model, policy, procedures and system implementation, coaching to Business Units stakeholders
- Review and update procurement policy and other procedures related to sourcing.
- Develop process/guidelines to support implementation of the policies and charter of sourcing team.
- Communication and training to BU stakeholders on procurement end to end procedures
- Participate the implementation of sourcing system tools (e.g. Ivalua)
- Produce management information and analytics for Sourcing
- Drive standardization in data and reports
- Develop long-term and annual category plan that sets short, medium and long term goals and objectives of the assigned category.
- Stakeholder management
- Directly drive high value projects
- Implement a procurement strategy across to deliver target benefits and financial savings.
- Engage support and agreement from key stakeholders on how to implement the strategy.
- Promote effective management of suppliers to sustain value throughout the life of the contract.
- Reviewing service areas and potential supplier rationalization
- Manage, lead and coach sourcing team members on delivering the KPIs
- Responsible for sourcing execution including but not limited to internal requirement analysis, supply market analysis, sourcing strategy development, competitive bidding process, negotiation and contract review.
- Commits to and delivers an annual savings target for managed spend, savings to be tracked in accordance with the benefits tracking guidelines
- Provide sourcing direction and guidance to stakeholders and in-country procurement teams for the responsible categories/project/request.

**Our commitment to you**
- Our mission: to be a part of making Decisions Easier and Lives Better
- A leadership team dedicated to your growth and success
- A bold ambition and set of goals to be a leader in driving transformation in our industry
- Our best. Every day.

**Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer**

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