Location: HCMC
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead project execution and drive all sourcing activities (RFI, RFP, e‐sourcing, Supplier onboarding, Due Diligence, Negotiation, Contracting)
- Lead and conduct project progress meetings with stakeholders and partners (External)
- Stakeholder management and communication proactively seek to engage business partners and stakeholders to understand their short and longer-term strategies
- Drive continuous improvement while ensuring compliance and improving efficiencies and effectiveness
- Manage key supplier performance against business requirements
- Stay well informed of the category market knowledge, development, and data analysis to gain critical insights to drive the selection of sourcing strategies and continuous improvement activities
- Collaborate with Global, regional category, and Centralized Function teams to ensure compliance and adherence to company procurement processes
- Achieve cost control, cost reduction and cost containment targets to achieve annual reduction for Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Actively participate in achieving the company’s supplier diversity and sustainability goals
Behaviors and Competency:
- Business partnering: Understanding current and future business challenges can translate business requirements into Procurement operations and specifications with the best value and customer service in mind.
- Excellent communication skills: able to articulate information in a clear, concise, and structured matters that is easily understood and accepted by stakeholders
- Able to engage stakeholders of all levels effectively, including those at the mid-management level. Manages expectations effectively and builds and deepens trust
- Learning agility: Structured and reliable yet keen and quick to pursue new avenues of learning and innovation
- Resilience
- Unquestionable personal and business integrity
Required Experience and Skills:
- Minimum Bachelor’s in Engineering, Supply Chain, or Logistics with 7 years of experience in a local or regional procurement role
- Experience in Logistics and marketing categories preferred
- Proficiency in MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Language: Proficient in English and Vietnamese
- Must have strong follow‐up skills and attention to detail
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders
- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage stakeholder expectations and people management without authority
- Strong problem‐solving skills with a structured process improvement thinking mindset
- Strong analytical skills and ability to extract relevant insights to develop sourcing strategies and support negotiations
- Ability to work in environments with potentially conflicting priorities
- Self‐starter and able to work in a dynamic environment, adaptive, flexible, and able to multitask
- Proven success in developing and executing sourcing strategies
- Effective time management skills, organizational and interpersonal skills, and conflict management.
Interested candidates can send resumes to minh.truong@ev-search.com for further discussion.
