Global Category Manager (Procurement)

THAI UNION GROUP PCL. (Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand)

Bangkok, Thailand

We are a global seafood leader with ambitious growth goals and a dedication to sustainability and innovation. Our portfolio of brands includes convenient consumer favorites that have brought nutritious and tasty seafood to tables around the world for over a century.

About this position

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Global Procurement Team to manage and develop technology relationships for TU across Hardware, Infrastructure, Network and Software/Saas categories. The Thai Union Global Procurement team makes an impact to the business by ensuring our efforts are guided by sound understanding of the stakeholder needs in line with our technology roadmap and business strategy. If you are looking for opportunities to make your mark, shape and actively contribute to transformational change in procurement, then you should join our team.

Responsibilities

Category Management
• Lead TU Group-wide Category Procurement Strategy for Hardware, Infrastructure, Network/Telco and Software/Saas, partnering with technology Leaders for planning, alignment and execution.
• Develop category strategies with clear value, cost, risk and opportunities analysis, paired with clear, executable spend management and/or cost improvement initiatives from short to long term perspectives.
• Maintain strong awareness of the category through investigation of new supply markets and assess supplier capabilities.
• Maintain updated knowledge of the supply base, keeping abreast of market insights and trends.
• Possess proficiency in analyzing external market conditions, internal demand, commodity operational/financial data.

Strategic Sourcing
• Lead and own the sourcing process, from driving clear definition of requirements working with business teams, identifying suppliers, initiating and deploying key commercial requirements.
• Driving competition through running robust end-to-end tenders, negotiations and eAuctions; making data driven decisions based on analysis of total cost of ownership.
• Lead vendor negotiation, drive clear assessment in partnership with internal subject-matter experts.
• Collaborate and coordinate with cross-functional teams (Legal, IT, Finance) across Contracting and Supplier Qualification.

Stakeholder Management and Business Partnering
• Build relationships with key business stakeholders in defining and achieving shared goals.
• Collaborate to proactively identify business needs and enable value creation through process efficiencies and speed to market, cost and risk management, supplier enabled innovation.
• Collaborate and lead internal procurement teams to deliver flawless end-to-end procurement projects (source-to-contract, procure-to-pay).

Supplier Relationship Management
• Drive performance, best value, and continued innovations from key suppliers through a robust supplier relationship management processes. This includes consistent management of contracts from award to implementation and ongoing performance reviews.

Requirements

• 10 years procurement experience in Technology
• Strong awareness of the IT/Technology supply market with procurement knowledge
• Strong negotiation skills and experience running sourcing events.
• Supplier relationship and performance management experience
• Able to collaborate well and build positive relationships with peers and senior leadership across different teams.
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority within the orga