Category Manager

1 day ago

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Maxis Full time

Are you ready to get ahead in your career?
- We want to empower you turn your ambitions into achievements.
- We thrive in inclusiveness, diversity and embrace close collaborations for you to create impact for yourself and others.
- Together, we aim to bring the best of technology to help people, businesses and the nation to be ahead in a changing world.
- To realise our vision to become Malaysia’s leading converged solutions company, we are looking for a new talent to innovate and grow with us in a culture that values commitment, performance and possibilities.

Why does this job exist and why is it critical?
- Work closely with internal stakeholders including the Category Head, Head of Procurement and business unit stakeholders to understand business needs, assist in developing category strategies and implement initiatives to deliver value to the business
- Primarily responsible for:

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Develop and define category strategies including procurement plans to achieve savings target_
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Contributing to new supplier selection and developing and maintaining strategic supplier relationships_
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Supporting internal collaboration, knowledge sharing, compliance with best practices and established category management process_

What are you accountable for?

Strategy definition and communication:

- Support the execution of category management strategies and activities and of strategic sourcing process and approaches for assigned categories/sub-categories
- For smaller spend sub-categories, plan, deploy and disseminate category strategies and plans and conduct sourcing projects by engaging stakeholders and the required cross-functional resources

Tendering, negotiation and contract management:

- Specify requirements for materials and services in category area
- Identify end users and/or suppliers to have advanced discussions on the usability/ interchangeability of items
- Manage sophisticated financial analysis and business cases taking into consideration currency fluctuations, payment terms, and alternative financial cost scenarios and can deliver financial and commercial business cases in a broad range of categories
- Expert in defining and executing negotiation tactics and skillfully manage difficult and complex strategic negotiations. Perform key analysis and develop a strategic negotiation plan, get outside opinion, and arm myself to be proactive during all negotiations
- Use detailed market analysis to create scenarios regarding potential market development. Use insights from market analysis to support stakeholder innovation, to mitigate risks for Maxis, and to amend category strategies or to deliver additional savings
- Regularly use e-Sourcing technology and support its use

Supplier relationship management (SRM):

- Work with the business to define the supplier KPIs, scorecard, vendor management model, data sources and collection methods on supplier performance
- Support the business to manage relationships with incumbent strategic suppliers including driving supplier innovation and developing joint improvement initiatives
- Develops supplier relationships beyond the incumbent to explore options and drive value and innovation for the business

Performance reporting and compliance:

- Supports the development of measurable category objectives and targets, and assist to produce regular reports
- Promote compliance to Procurement processes and policies across the business

People management:

- Supervise Category Sourcing Specialists on category sourcing activities, provide guidance and support, monitor and prioritise workload of team

Stakeholder management:

- Responsible for inter-BU coordination for e.g. supplier review meetings
- Management of BU/Procurement escalations and engagement of formal governance mechanisms where required

What do you need to have for this role?
- Minimum Bachelor degree qualification, preferably in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering or Business Management
- Minimum 5-7 years relevant procurement or category management experience, of which 3 years should be in Telecommunications
- Experience in supporting and/or managing Network categories and supporting the implementation of sourcing initiatives
- Expertise in managing and communicating with suppliers
- Fluent in English (both written and verbal)
- Intermediate analytical thinking skills and adept at analysing and synthesising complex data to develop valid recommendations.
- Intermediate communication skills with the ability to communicate coherently with diverse audiences.
- Expert sourcing and supplier management skills with a proven ability to challenge teams on key decisions and lead negotiations with strategic suppliers.
- Advanced relevant computer skills (MS Office, ERP systems, e-procurement systems including iValua and SAP)
- Advanced category expertise relevant to telecommunications and the categories in scope of responsibility
- Advanced contract management skills with proven experience in developing relevant le

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