Regional Sourcing Manager - Region APAC (Indirect)

Regional Sourcing Manager - Region APAC (Indirect)

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Malaysia

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Location : Selangor, Malaysia

The Regional Sourcing Manager plays a key role in aligning global, regional, and local priorities with relevant indirect categories and procurement stakeholders (Business Partners). This involves driving Procurement projects to achieve critical productivity goals. The role entails end-to-end category and project management within areas such as Professional Services, HR Services, External Workforce, IT, and other designated indirect categories. The focus is on aligning business needs, ensuring operational excellence, leveraging strategic sourcing and negotiation expertise, applying supplier market intelligence, achieving financial productivity, and mitigating risk.

About the Role

Major accountabilities :

Procurement Services :

• Define negotiation and sourcing strategies where category strategies are not yet established above the strategic threshold; ensure approval and communication.
• Take accountability for sourcing execution and negotiation processes.
• Serve as the escalation point for business stakeholders liaising with the global procurement team.
• Maintain robust information flows to the global Category team to identify opportunities for demand aggregation and enhanced leverage.
• Ensure operational Procurement activities align with established category strategies, comply with relevant policies and procedures, and leverage preferred supplier agreements.
• Contribute to identifying and delivering savings opportunities.

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Regional Sourcing Manager - Region APAC (Indirect)

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