เกี่ยวกับตำแหน่งงาน

Job Description
Role purpose
The purpose of this role is to lead the Thailand Indirect Procurement function as Business Partner.
Accountable for a small Unit/Business/Site or Function Unit within Syngenta Thailand.
Ability to manage and deliver results individually as an individual contributor.
Provides scientific, technical, specialist/subject matter, or product expertise and leadership.
Delivers a key service through a team or leads complex and significant tasks and projects of regional or global scope.
Takes independent action to deliver short-term goals.
Focuses on the procurement of a portfolio of spend, leveraging Category/Sub-Category strategies and Buying Channels.
Leads and manages the end-to-end sourcing activities within the countries.
Procures an assigned portfolio of spend ensuring secure, on-time, on-specification supply, delivering minimum total cost of ownership.
Builds relationships with stakeholders, regional teams, and delivers saving targets and quality.
Performs specialized duties in a defined functional program area, involving a wide variety of problems.
Acts as an expert source of information on processing transactions.
Works closely with business leaders to ensure the territory’s business requirements are clearly understood and challenged, and taken account of in the Category strategies (Demand management).
Forges close working relationships with Category/Sub-Category Managers to ensure strategies are fully deployed across the region.
Develops and maintains close working relationships with various business leaders to ensure Indirect Procurement delivers significant savings consistently.
Provides tailored Procurement solutions for the business when requirements cannot be met by Category/Sub-Category strategy or existing buying channels.
Acts as an ambassador of Procurement and Global Sourcing, championing Procurement policies, processes, and tools.
Represents multiple functions and sites within the region/country, collaborating with AMEA members and regional sourcing teams to drive procurement excellence.
Continuous self development to meet the requirements.
Accountabilities
Key elements of the role include but are not be limited to:
Manages end-to-end sourcing activities within countries, aligning with category strategies.
Builds relationships with stakeholders and regional teams, ensuring compliance with procurement policies and process including tendering and contract management.
Develops and manages relationships with key suppliers, including negotiation and contract management.
Deploys category and sub-category strategies within the country, ensuring alignment with management teams.
Designs and executes tailored procurement solutions where standard strategies or channels are insufficient.
Optimizes vendor relationships and utilizes e-tools effectively to leverage value and promote catalog usage.
Manages budgets and resources allocated to procurement activities.
Verifies and agrees on financial performance within the country, including savings delivery and budget data.
Delivers agreed savings targets while maintaining quality and meeting time requirements.
Works closely with business leaders to understand and address requirements, ensuring alignment with category strategies.
Communicates effectively with stakeholders, providing regular reports on achievements, issues, and constraints.
Develops a strong procurement stakeholder network within the organization, educating on policies and processes.
Actively engages in continuous self-development to meet requirements.
Focuses on sustainability throughout the procurement process.
Develops and promotes catalogue usage for process optimization.
Set clear timelines and milestones for procurement objectives.
Implement risk management strategies to mitigate potential disruptions in the supply chain.
Conduct regular audits of procurement processes and may propose and/or contribute towards area of improvements in the processes (with validation of supervisor/manager)
Requires in-depth knowledge and experience in own discipline including mastery of techniques/methods/scientific theories and subject matter expertise
Solves complex problems and may be required to develop solutions to problems newly arising
work on project sourcing, spend analysis, detailed understanding of the supply market(s) and internal business requirements, implement Category strategy achieving the agreement and saving target.
Typically coordinates and supervises the daily activities, production or operations team of non-professionals level, may allocate work, sets priorities to ensure task completion, coordinates work activities with other supervisors; provides subject matter guidance to other team members.
To provide local market knowledge / intelligence / expertise for components within the portfolio to team, stakeholders and other country, regional and global category managers.
Be the face of procurement to the country management team, ensuring they are aware of and actively support procurement policies, processes and tools across the territory and ensuring that Indirect Procurement is fully aware of the challenges, opportunities, and priorities of the territory.
Effective utilization of the e-tools to leverage value
Provide mentorship and guidance to junior procurement team members to support their professional development.
Advocate for ethical procurement practices and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Qualifications
Critical knowledge
Capability in developing sourcing strategies and leading the implementation.
Good knowledge of procurement policies and procedure
Strong background in use of procurement tools: Ariba, e-rfx, e procurement, SAP, and reporting analytical tools.
Excellent knowledge of supply markets and the domain.
Ability to handle detailed information and analyse and extract critical issues.
Good knowledge of financial measurements, how to build a business case including ROI.
In depth knowledge of internal purchasing policies, procedures, and processes
Leadership of complex projects
Cross-cultural understanding
Good understanding of how to influence and sell internally.
Knowledge of market intelligence methodologies to gather and analyse relevant information.
Knowledge of analytical skills to analyse the data acquired
Critical skills
Good decision making, Strong negotiation and contract management skills
Strong interpersonal, presentation and communication skill; ability to work in cross functional teams; organisation skills internally and suppliers externally
Strong organisation, implementation, analytic and influencing skills.
Proactive self starter who can work independently
Strong ability to extract and analyse internal customer requirements.
Good team leading, people development, coaching and mentoring skills
Required Thai native speaker
Critical experience
Experience of working in an indirect procurement environment and for at least 7 years
University degree
Strong business partnering experience and stakeholder management.
Working in a multi-national, multi-cultural environment
Project team leadership experience (geographically dispersed and cross-functional with proven results)
Proven record of success in negotiations with suppliers
Relationship management experience either internally or externally
Strong procurement experience with demonstrated success.
Strong business acumen
Experience in handling complex procurement challenges and finding effective solutions.
Additional Information
Travel within AMEA is expected.

Indirect Procurement Business Partner - Thailand

เกี่ยวกับตำแหน่งงาน

CV ของคุณเหมาะกับงานนี้แค่ไหน?

ซ้อมสัมภาษณ์สำหรับตำแหน่งนี้ก่อนสมัครจริง

Syngenta

ตำแหน่งใกล้เคียง

Front Office Manager

Lead/Sr Lead – Strategy and Operations

Production Engineering

ลิงก์ที่เกี่ยวข้อง