Global Procurement Contracting Senior Manager

Airswift; Kuala Lumpur; Hybrid; MYR 260,000 - 600,000; Part time

Job summary

Airswift is seeking a Global Procurement Contracting Senior Manager in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a 12-month contract. The role focuses on standardising templates, processes, and digital tools to uplift contracting capability across the organisation.

You will lead governance, change management, and stakeholder engagement to maximise value while minimising risk. Hybrid work pattern applies with office and remote days to support global operations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working in global environments.
• Knowledge of procurement contract management.
• Ability to develop quick understanding of business objectives and align contracting strategy.
• An SME who shares knowledge with the wider team and drives delivery of business and procurement priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead contracting advisory activities to align with contracting principles.
• Develop and maintain contract templates aligned to policies, legal requirements, and industry standards.
• Harmonise contracting processes across categories with cross-divisional standards.
• Coordinate with process owners and procurement teams to standardise templates and approaches.
• Maintain contracting knowledge repository and communicate updates to practitioners.
• Drive contracting transformation initiatives delivering incremental business value.
• Leverage digital solutions to enhance efficiency and value creation.
• Build a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement within teams.

Skills

Global experience

Contracting strategy

Stakeholder management

Change management

Risk management

Strategic thinking

Influencing skills

Communication skills

Job description

Job Title: Global Procurement Contracting Senior Manager

Type: Contract Duration: 12 Months Work Hours: 8.30am – 5.30pm (Flexible) Mode: Hybrid (3 Days Office & 2 Days WFH) Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Role Objective

The Global Procurement Contracting Senior Manager is accountable for driving global contracting excellence across The Company. by developing, standardising, and modernising procurement contract templates, processes, and digital tools. The role ensures The Company’s contracting framework is robust, efficient, and aligned with legal, compliance, and business requirements globally. This position also leads change across procurement to uplift contracting capability and support the organisation through transformation toward a digitally enabled contracting model. The Global Procurement Contracting Senior Manager will also be driving Contract Board Governance to ensure robust contracting process in place to drive the maximise value and minise risk for business.

Key Responsibilities

• Contracting Excellence Lead and manage contracting advisory activities across procurement to ensure alignment with contracting principles.
• Develop and maintain contract templates in alignment to internal policies, legal requirements, and industry standards.
• Drive harmonisation of contracting processes across categories, providing cross-divisional process standards.
• Coordinate with the process owners, SMEs and procurement teams to update and standardise contract templates and approach where appropriate, share learning and best practices, and ensure alignment with the end-to-end process objectives and initiatives in alignment to compliances and risk management.
• Maintain updated contracting knowledge repository (including policies and procedures) and communicate appropriately to procurement practitioners.
• Work with process excellence team to run contracting knowledge café to support the upskilling of contracting capabilities in procurement practitioners.
• Manage and oversee the procurement authorities for The Company.
• Ensure the annual renewal of signing authorities for procurement contracts are being completed.
• Lead and drive Contract Board Governance.
• Transformation and Change Management Implement contracting transformation initiatives, which deliver incremental business value.
• Leverage digital solutions to drive innovation, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and value creation.
• Partner with internal discipline teams to automate contracting activities and drive efficiency.
• Use influencing, storytelling and communication to encourage digital adoption and better data quality for decision making.
• Team Integration Helps to create and embraces a culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement in their teams.
• Develops their technical skills and represents the interests of their region / site / asset across procurement and the broader organization.
• Collaborates across procurement with the business and, where appropriate, with suppliers to create a ‘one team’ mentality.
• Builds region / site / asset knowledge across the wider procurement organization to ensure delivery of their objectives.
• Develops their technical capabilities and accelerator skills.
• Embraces psychological safety, and The Company’s values, as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation.
• Compliant with The Company policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Supplier & Stakeholder Management Uses storytelling to communicate impactfully with stakeholders and external partners, respectfully challenging to achieve the right outcomes, resolving conflict and focusing on priorities.
• Influences through complexity and ambiguity, managing virtual relationships with stakeholders in multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments.
• Builds good stakeholder relationships, bringing market insights and championing supplier value whilst taking time to understand business needs.
• Becomes a trusted advisor and critical partner to stakeholders.
• Builds relationships with the procurement teams globally, understanding stakeholder feedback and proactively working to build procurements reputation and ROI.

Requirements

• Proven experience working in global environments
• Must have an understanding of and be adept at developing and maintaining business context, including an understanding of strategic direction, priorities, stakeholders, and strategy.
• Knowledge of procurement contract management.
• Ability to develop a quick understanding of business objectives and synergise it with contracting strategy.
• An SME, who shares knowledge with the wider team and drives delivery of business and procurement priorities.
• Collaborates across procurement, the businesses, suppliers and beyond to achieve their regions / assets goals.
• Experience in leading initiatives internationally, recognizing cultural nuances, analyzing data-driven trends & insights, and employing agile/flexible approaches.
• An advocate for our code, they incorporate the Operating Management System (OMS) and our safety leadership principles into strategies and everyday work.
• The role requires the ability to partner with the business to develop innovative solutions, clearing blockers and enabling delivery.
• It also requires judgement to translate business requirements into a demand plan.
• Embraces industry challenges and technological disruption, pioneers innovative solutions whilst managing risk.
• Brings multiple parties (procurement, business, suppliers) together to collaboratively solve complex problems.
• Manages conflict to successful resolution while maintaining relationships with key stakeholders.
• The ability to evaluate innovative solutions and manage risk.
• Good judgement in order to translate business requirements into a strategic delivery plan, aligned with the categories, to inform strategic decisions.
• The role demands strong people skills to engage with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong senior stakeholder networking and influencing skills to ensure buy in and adoption, building a reputation as a strategic partner to the regions / sites / assets.
• Experience in regular interaction with external suppliers and representing The Company externally.
• Effective change management is key, requiring good influencing, engagement and storytelling abilities.
• Persevering through organizational complexity and resistance to change, key to leading transformational change.
• Proficiency in BM & English