Indirect Procurement Specialist

This position is based on Head Office and report to the Procurement Leader/Procurement Manager and is responsible for the management & execution of procurement activities for an assigned procurement category under guidance from manager. The Indirect Procurement Executive will have the opportunities to develop their analytical, negotiation and planning skills through various category management activities including but not limited to vendor management, sourcing and category analysis. You will also have the opportunity to develop teamwork skills through continual liaison with departments within the companies and suppliers. The next career development for this position will be Category Leader.
- Evaluate and manage purchase requests from all departments within the assigned category and liaise with requesting department through the entire procurement process from developing key bidding criteria / specification for high value purchases, vendor selection negotiation and vendor evaluation for assigned categories.
- Manage and directly execute transactional procurement in P2P systems & Ad-hoc requests following the strategy & qualified key vendors to ensure supply of goods & services provided for Daikin in good quality, adequate, timely and cost effectively.
- Align with requesting departments to establish or revise KPIs to assess new vendors or evaluate existing vendors on an on-going basis (price, quality, volume capabilities, payment terms, etc.).
- Manage and source for potential local vendors, build up vendor relationship and vendor engagement to ensure supply is stable anytime
- Work out effective solution during process, consult, convince user to follow to save cost or reduce processing time.
- Contribute to improve purchasing process, train others about process and EPR.
- Conduct periodical review of vendor performance and proposed revision for preferred vendors when necessary.
- Prepare weekly/monthly report about expense, saving, SLA, procurement issue and propose solution.
- Conduct market price trend analysis and evaluation to identify procuring opportunities, develop monthly expense reports for the assigned category to provide insights into procurement expenses compared to plan.
- Ensure compliance to company's policy and procedures in key processes (PR, PO, RFQ, bidding and payment, etc).
OTHER INFORMATION:
* Working hour: Monday - Friday
* Allowances: lunch, petrol, phone
* Annual leave
* Social, Medical, Unemployment insurance on full salary
* Training opportunities
* Annual healthcare check-up