Lead Project Procurement Engineer - South Asia (JO012861) Singapore
Our client is looking for a “Lead Project Procurement Engineer” to work under the following conditions:
Terms & Conditions
Location: Singapore
Starting Date: ASAP
Contract duration: Direct Hire position – Permanent
Working Hours: 8 hrs/day & 5 Days/Week
Status: Resident
Job Purpose:
This position is responsible for determining, developing and executing procurement strategies and plans to purchase 3rd party products and services for Pre-Sales and Post-Sales support for company’s Process Automation (PA) projects in the South Asia (SA) hub. Position reports directly to the Senior Manager, Project Procurement, South Asia. The Lead Engineer, Project Procurement will lead a team of professional project procurement across South Asia with responsibility for driving competitive supply and services strategies to achieve the best landed costs aligned with the customer’s scope of work for projects.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and create a high performance culture team to drive project procurement strategy to support hub business grow, profitability, cash flow improvement through continuous improvement initiatives with minimum compliance on the 3rd party Resale item.
- Identify and qualify key 3rd party suppliers and sub-contractors for framework agreements to provide competitive pricing and services to support the Growth segment for Pre-bid winning rates and during project execution to improve project gross margin.
- Collaborate and develop with Sales, Proposal, Project Delivery, Technical Sales Consultant, Peers cross Business Units and cross regions to drive materials and operational synergies to leverage on spend to achieve competitive pricing, quality, delivery and risk management with the supply base.
- Influence project proposal process by ensuring best 3rd party strategy to give a competitive cost advantage during customer pursuits.
- Deploy benchmarking and cost modelling tools to enable competitive costs to win and drive margin improvements.
- Deploy and develop work improve and tools to streamline the end to end processes and operation to achieve work efficient and saving.
Requirements:
Education – Bachelor degree in Engineering
Experience – Min. 5 years of experience in regional project procurement, 3 years in leadership role managing large capital projects and employees, 3 years of experience in process automation, Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) or Large Oil & Gas industries
Leadership – strong supervisory skills, ability to lead, highly self- motivated person, build and develop a high performing team
Communication – outstanding verbal, presentation & facilitation skills plus effective listening skills, high energy and engaging
Technical – solid negotiation, creative problem solving, superior data-driven decision making skills and highly developed analytical skills
Preferred Qualifications – Certified Supply Chain Professional