Procurement - Senior Manager

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Whether it's through our products, software, and services that propel the digital transformation of energy management and automation, or through our corporate citizenship and volunteer activities, we make a meaningful impact by empowering people and organizations to become more resilient, electric, and digital.

Which is where you come in. Working at Schneider Electric means working toward a cleaner, better world. You are part of a global team built on inclusion, mastery, purpose, action, curiosity, and teamwork, turning sustainability ambitions into actions.

Location: Kallang

Mission (About the Role)

Schneider Electric is seeking a Senior Manager, Procurement to lead and drive a Transformational Procurement program in East Asia. This includes Upstream Resilience, Material Productivity, Supplier Development Programs and Plant Procurement Transformation.

• Drive a procurement transversal project (e.g Upstream Resilience, Material Productivity Initiatives) and ensure timelines, deliverables, budget, quality, critical activities and other important KPI are within expectations and forecast.
• Integrates risk management, statistical methods, and advanced financial tools to improve project and organizational performance.
• Work closely with Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Business Unit Partners and GSC Manufacturing region to drive and to deliver the projects deliverables and deadlines.
• Perform risk assessment and management of the given transversal procurement projects to identify and minimize issues in project execution, leading discussions and tracking of action plans with proper individuals.
• Lead and facilitate productivity workshops with suppliers, with close collaboration with regional/ plant procurement team and regional/plant cross functional team to build up year by year productivity pipeline (Cost Of Goods Sold/Quality and Value Engineering/Continuous Improvement Initiatives)
• Establish strong network with global/region/entity wise key stakeholders and lead executive presentations with senior leadership and business unit teams
• Directs the planning, implementation and monitoring of activities ensuring deliverables completion, compliance and performance success bringing value to customers and the company.
• Drive Supplier Co-Development Project (Quality- Supply Chain- CI Kaizen) with close collaboration with regional/entity cross functional team and leaders.

• Minimum 10 years of procurement management with solid procurement / sourcing experience in similar industry such as Electronics or Electrical, Automotive or Medical Equipment.
• Self-driven, dynamic individual that possesses great leadership, communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work under pressure, handling ambiguity and resolving conflicts to effectively prioritize tasks in a fast-paced work environment
• Team player and strong in facilitating cross functional collaboration
• Strong networking with ability to influence and execute change management
• Preferably with PMP or Scrum Certification with 3 years exposure to project management
• Six Sigma methodology