A Day in the Life (The Critical Tasks You Will Perform):
In a typical week, you will be expected to:
- Drive Sourcing Execution: Run medium-complexity sourcing workstreams with clear plans, sequencing, and milestones.
- Clarify & Align: Handle misalignment early through direct stakeholder engagement.
- Clarify requirements, scope, constraints, and success metrics.
- Analyze & Strategize: Conduct spend analysis, supplier profiling, and opportunity mapping.
- Draft business cases and sourcing strategies.
- Manage Go-to-Market: Design RFQs/RFPs (questions, evaluation logic, timelines, governance).
- Build cost models, quote comparisons, and what-if scenarios that actually support decision-making.
- Negotiate & Document: Prepare negotiation positions and trade-offs for senior leaders.
- Document decisions cleanly, outlining risks, trade-offs, and rationale.
- Coordinate SMEs: Ensure timely inputs from Legal, Compliance, VenSec, and other subject matter experts.
- Explore Tech & Automation: Actively learn and apply low-code/no-code tools and AI assistants to streamline your category workflows (e.g., simplifying contract reviews or accelerating data analysis).
Capabilities & Skills (What You Bring):
- Commercial Strategy & Value Creation: You understand how Procurement creates value beyond price.
- You build structured business cases, articulate cost drivers, and link options back to business priorities.
- You practice modern negotiation fundamentals (building plans, BATNAs, red lines) and define post-award success metrics.
- Stakeholder Influence & Storytelling: You frame problems clearly and move stakeholders from facts → insight → recommendation. You manage expectations diplomatically and influence stakeholders who want agreement but need clarity.
- Execution Excellence: You sequence work flawlessly, flag risks early, and propose actionable mitigations.
- Tech Adaptability & AI Leverage: You move beyond basic charts to true insights. You are curious and willing to learn 'citizen developer' skills—using low-code/no-code platforms and AI tools to increase speed and reduce manual work, always applying human judgment to validate outputs.
- Risk, Controls & Responsible Procurement: You understand why controls exist. You propose proportional controls (avoiding blanket friction) and know exactly when to loop in SMEs early.
- Supplier & Contract Outcomes: You can advise on appropriate contract structures and spot key commercial clauses that directly impact delivery.
- Change, Learning & Adaptability: You own outcomes within your scope and can successfully influence without formal authority.
Pay: RM9,000.00 - RM10,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person