Responsibilities:
- Will be fully responsible to structure the acquisition and coordinate the actions of all other Procurement organizations and actors for the relevant bids and projects
- Will commit the Procurement Function, promote category strategies
- Must be involved upstream in the solution definition to ensure solutions fit with the Bids & Projects and customer needs and drive competitiveness
- Will be responsible to reach the objectives of the Procurement function for the offers and the projects (Total Cost of Ownership, Cash, goods & service availability and quality).
- Will drive and follow through activities related to competitiveness related to procurement and support design to cost approach, challenge Make team buy strategy.
In Bid Phase:
- Represent procurement as part of Bid team in BKO, Estimate review, CCR, and all gates per the Bid Plan
- Analyze the customer’s needs and context and then setting out the expectation to Category Team
- Carrying out the overall assessment of the purchasing R&Os
- To collapse and to optimize acquisition needs to meet the objective of each bid
- To assess the viability, defines strategy, consolidates from all Category team through Acquisition Management Plan (AMP)
- Deliverables of AMP and Procurement strategy through Procurement summary sheet and Procurement Executive summary according to Bid Plan
- Upon award at Bid Gate 3, to handover to Project APM if any. This includes introduction of the project content and transferring of all relevant up-to-date Bid purchasing information.
- Lead and Participate lessons learnt sessions on Acquisition matters if required for experience to gain and improve PSS effectiveness/competitiveness and evolution over the course of the bid phase.
In Project Phase
- Oversee the subcontracts, act as the interface between Procurement and Project on all acquisition matters.
- Formulate and prepare the AMP to incorporate all the latest changes.
- Lead and coordinate all acquisition activities associated on make, team or buy.
- Monitor subcontractors’ progress
- Work closely with Category team in the securing the material to ensure that project milestones are maintained.
- Manage risk, track and analyze budget gap to ensure that all products/services acquisition are within budget/EAC.
- Make timely and routine escalation to management as appropriately on acquisition irregularity (justify and highlight cost/schedule impact due to scope creep).
- Develop mitigation plan to address any impact due to these gaps.
- Lead all acquisition cost reduction initiatives, execution of these plans and track its result on a routine basis.
Requirements:
- University Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, IT or related
- Fluent in English
- Experience in project nature environment, preferably in low volume, high mix environment
- Good knowledge in Tactical and strategic supplier management
- Project Management / PMO experiences.
- Familiar in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Security and Cyber related topics and experience in managing installation companies would be an added advantage.
- Familiar and experience with Power BI and other Microsoft office.
- Knowledge of SAPbyDesign will be beneficial.