- Location
- Charles & Keith Group HQ, Singapore
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Operations
- Seniority
- Manager
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Bachelor
- Source
- Workday
Description
We're on the lookout for individuals who are passionate about fashion, think outside the box, and have an eye for innovation.
Unleash your potential with us, and join us as we create joy and excitement in our global community to empower people to express themselves freely through fashion.
1. Category management and sourcing
Logistics & Supply Chain: freight, 3PL, warehousing and last mile
Marketing: overall marketing agency category
Technology: software and SaaS, implementation and integration, managed services, cloud and digital platforms
Build fact-based category strategies covering spend baseline, supplier landscape, cost drivers, market dynamics
Run competitive sourcing events end-to-end: briefing, RFI, RFP and RFQ, cost breakdowns, evaluation criteria and weightings, scoring, recommendation and award
Lead and support commercial negotiations on total cost of ownership, including demand management, specification challenge and consolidation opportunities
Work with Legal to paper what we buy, covering standard templates, terms, renewals and expiries, and keep the contract record current for your categories
Establish supplier performance management for key suppliers through scorecards, business reviews and improvement plans
2. Process improvement and source-to-pay
Design and continuously improve the upstream source-to-pay process: intake, requisition, approvals, purchase orders and goods receipt
Digitalise the procurement toolkit, including the requisition, new vendor request, sourcing waiver, vendor assessment and tender pack, and build the routing behind them in Concur and lightweight workflow tools
Drive purchase order discipline and policy compliance
Support the roll-out of the Group Procurement Policy and its supporting SOPs, and act as a first point of contact for the business on how to buy
3. Data, analytics and reporting
Own the Group spend baseline by extracting, cleansing, categorising and maintaining spend, supplier and contract data drawn from finance and AP systems
Turn data into usable answers on supplier concentration, tail spend, price and volume variance, contract coverage, compliance rates, pipeline and savings
Build and maintain procurement dashboards and the monthly reporting pack for the CFO and the Management Committee
Work with FP&A to define, validate and track budget
4. Stakeholder Management
Partner with Marketing, Logistics, IT, Store Operations, Projects, Legal and Finance as a commercial adviser
Work across markets with teams in Singapore and the wider region
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering or a related field
Professional certification such as CIPS, CPSM, or Lean and Six Sigma is advantageous
Minimum 8 years in indirect procurement, with hands-on ownership of categories and sourcing events from end-to-end
FMCG, Consumer goods, Retail, fashion, or fast-moving, multi-market environment is advantageous
Exposure to logistics, marketing and/or technology categories is advantageous
Familiar with AI tools
Advanced Excel: Pivot tables, lookups, Power Query
Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or Python is an advantage
Experience in process improvement or transformation, whether process redesign, digitalisation, Lean or Six Sigma is advantageous
Working knowledge of P2P or S2P platforms such as Concur, SAP, Ariba, Coupa or Ivalua is an advantage
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