Procurement Professional

• Act as a procurement subject matter expert in consulting with the business to identify, develop and deploy best practice procurement, category management and supplier management.
• Advise on sourcing strategy development and agenda setting with sectors and sourcing stakeholders.
• Advise on compiling and analyzing statistical data to determine feasibility of buying services and to establish price objectives.
• Advise on all procurement activities related to technical projects (Core, Access, Infrastructure, OSP, and Technical Solutions) and non-technical/commercial projects (Marketing, Materials and Facilities).
• Advise on identifying potential procurement synergies with other subsidiaries and manages their implementation.
• Advise on develop purchasing requirements and project specifications with sector management and suppliers.
• Track supply market trends (competitive pressures, new entrants, substituting products or services, changes in the value chain).

• Advise on price trends, conferring with suppliers to determine factors that affect prices and determine lowest cost consistent with quality, reliability and ability to meet required schedules.
• Advise on preparing RFPs, reviewing proposals, negotiating prices, selecting or recommending suppliers, analyzing trends, developing cost estimates, follow up on orders placed, and maintaining necessary records.
• Identify and implement strategic service agreements where possible to achieve efficiencies.
• Advise on preparation of bid packages for Customer proposals.
• Advise on leveraging all beneficial contractual terms to maximize impact and return.
• Support in managing SLAs for Tendered/Non-Tendered Change Orders as well as Change Orders for the supplier market and spend categories.

• Provide guidance to relevant stakeholders regarding appropriate processes and opportunities.
• Advise on building relationships with suppliers to increase benefits for STC such as timely delivery and lower prices for goods and services.
• Advise on building and maintaining database of vendors and partner for on-time utilization purpose.
• Identify business requirements and forecasts capacity growth for STC and local/regional market demand.
• Provide advice for alignment of the Sector's long term and short-term strategy with internal business priorities and market best practice.
• Contribute to developing segmentation criteria and mapping supply base to desired relationship type.
• Advise on optimizing supplier costs designed to improve efficiencies, control costs and drive synergies within the Sector.
• Analyse reports and metrics to identify potential issues and undertakes preventive measures to mitigate relevant operational and business risks.
• Advise on developing business cases, including need for cross-functional resources, time frame and targets.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration/Engineering or related discipline.
• Master's Degree in Business Administration/Engineering is preferred.
• Professional certificate in procurement or related discipline.

• Technical Skills.
• Expert proficiency in financial acumen.
• Expert proficiency in supplier relationship management.
• Expert proficiency in negotiation skills.
• Expert proficiency in analytical skill.

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