Regional Category Manager

1 week ago


Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Bayer Full time

Regional Category Manager - Packaging & Projects


The Regional Category Manager - Packaging & Projects is responsible for the Regional category management and accountability for sourcing and supplier management activities on regional scale within the area of PULL materials for Packaging, and co-ordination of projects within Asia.


YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Contributes to development of global category strategy
  • Implements categories strategies and initiatives for his/her materials and services, ensuring alignment, compliance with Procurement guideline, as well as other internal/external process standards and delivery of required business performance in his/her region
  • Understands business needs and builds effective, trustful, personal and virtual relationships with key regional/country stakeholders.
  • Manages supply agreements & contracts. Monitors and controls contractual agreements and clauses over entire lifecycle and minimizes exposure to contractual risks in external relationships through usage of terms and conditions aligned with legal function.
  • Provides countryspecific market intelligence to mitigate supply risk, gain competitive advantage and make better business decisions. Continuously conducts detailed supplier and supply market analysis at country level looking at facts and indicating market trends in supply base and technology.
  • Manages supplier relationships and implements supplier management principles in supply base, builds relationships and improves supplier performance. Incorporates company's responsibility and commitment to sustainable business practices into category supplier relationships and ensures compliance through reports, audits and improvement plans.
  • Plans and executes sourcing events via external partner to create a competitive advantage
  • Supports diversity and inclusion programs in local markets as appropriate
  • Coordinates PULL projects across all subcategories.

WHO YOU ARE:

  • BA/BS in a relevant field and more than 7 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Strong leadership & managerial skills at the general management level
  • Strong negotiation, communication, presentation, influencing & problem solving skills
  • Strong ability to manage virtual team environment
  • Organization, executive level, intercultural & interpersonal skills,
  • Demonstrated analytical decision making skills & creative thinking
  • Specific knowledge & experience of strategic procurement, quality management systems, regulatory requirements & logistics processes, principles & practices
  • Sense of urgency and drive to solve issues


Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans
IMPORTANT NOTE for POTENTIAL CANDIDATES: Bayer expects its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Bayer active employees are also expected to disclose their vaccination status and if fully vaccinated, provide proof of vaccination status to Occupational Medicine.

Bayer defines fully vaccinated in alignment with CDC which is two weeks after completing the two-dose vaccine regimen or two weeks after completing the one-dose regimen.

Additionally, Bayer employees are also required to comply with state, local and customer requirements.

Division:

  • Enabling Functions
    Reference Code

Functional Area:

  • Procurement
    Location:
  • Malaysia : Kuala Lumpur : Kuala Lumpur
    Employment Type:
  • Regular
    Position Grade:
  • VS 1.2

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