Indirect Sourcing Specialist

Bromma; Ipoh; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading manufacturer of crane spreaders is seeking an Indirect Sourcing Specialist in Ipoh, Malaysia. This role involves managing procurement activities, driving cost-saving initiatives, and ensuring compliance with policies. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of three years in procurement, alongside strong negotiation and relationship-building skills. Join a dynamic team committed to sustainability and global trade innovations.

Benefits

Flexible working conditions

Career development opportunities

Safety-focused environment

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in Procurement and/or Strategic Sourcing.
• Experience leading sourcing projects and process improvement.
• Strong ability in negotiation, influencing, and relationship building.

Responsibilities

• Drive substantial cost-saving initiatives through analyses and project leadership.
• Facilitate communication across global procurement strategies.
• Lead contract negotiations and ensure compliance with policies.

Skills

Negotiation

Relationship building

Stakeholder collaboration

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, or Engineering

Job description

BROMMA has been the leading manufacturer of crane spreaders ever since its formation in the 1960s. Today we have, by far, the highest market share of the world’s spreader suppliers. In fact, our market share is higher than all our competitors’ combined. Today, we manufacture close to 2,000 spreaders of all types every year and our spreaders are currently in use in 99 of the top-100 ports world-wide.

BROMMA sales and service network has a wide-reaching footprint. We are present with own sales offices on all continents, and with an extensive network of agents, we are able to support customers in every country in the world.

More information about BROMMA can be found on www.bromma.com

Join us and take your career to the next level

The Indirect Sourcing Specialist Bromma will be responsible for all indirect procurement activities within the Ipoh factory and for the Bromma division. You will source goods and services within assigned indirect categories, collaborate with global category and country procurement organisations, lead savings projects, manage supplier relationships and support supply base rationalization activities, create synergies and drive sustainable compliance improvements that are aligned with local and regional needs.

To succeed you will develop and foster a culture of collaboration, business partnering, results‑oriented performance and continuous improvement together with the country organisations with a strong customer focus and value creation mindset that supports service and sales growth in line with Kalmar strategy.

What Are Your Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Cost Leadership: Drive substantial cost‑saving initiatives through TCO analysis, supplier renegotiation, RFQs, and CAPEX decisions, and lead Outsource vs. Insource analyses and implementation.
• Global & Local Alignment: Facilitate communication between factory, division, and central category teams to align local activities with global procurement strategies and business needs.
• Contract & Compliance Management: Lead contract negotiations, ensuring adherence to legal/commercial terms, and strictly enforce compliance with internal policies and local legal requirements (including the Supplier Code of Conduct).
• Supplier Relationship & Risk: Source, monitor, and control supply while building strong, collaborative preferred supplier relationships, executing consolidation/tail spend reduction, and supporting risk mitigation strategies.
• Process Improvement & Digitalization: Identify local process inefficiencies, promote best practice implementation (standardization/tool utilization), and drive improvements in the source‑to‑pay process using digital procurement systems.
• Stakeholder Influence & Reporting: Collaborate closely with stakeholders at all levels, effectively communicate sourcing strategies and results, and provide regular performance reporting on key procurement metrics (cost, quality, delivery) to plant leadership.

What We Offer You

“Green business is good business – it’s not just a slogan; we’re investing in fossil‑free steel and real change.”

• Rewards that truly count: We offer meaningful development opportunities through varied assignments, fair and gender‑neutral pay, and flexible working conditions — all within a culture that values your growth and celebrates success.
• Safety that moves us forward: Build your career with a company rooted in safety since the 1940s, ensuring stability and an environment that empowers you to speak and be heard.
• Purpose that drives change: You'll contribute to solutions that transform global trade, creating environmental and operational innovations. You'll be in the driver's seat of ideas, developing digital technologies that set industry standards and position us as the forerunner.
• People who move together: You'll collaborate with people who build lasting relationships through global expertise, connections, and a commitment to sustainability.

Become part of our global network. We offer you an opportunity to put your skills and experience into work and make an impact in our global organisation and the spreaders industry. You will work together with great colleagues from various backgrounds inspired by shared, ambitious goals. We value collaboration in our open and inclusive culture. With us, you will have the opportunity to develop yourself professionally. Join us to make a difference – and have fun while doing it.

What You Bring To The Role

• Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, or Engineering.
• Professional Experience: Minimum 3 years in Procurement and/or Strategic Sourcing, ideally within a large multinational company.
• Project Leadership: Proven experience leading sourcing projects and a background in process improvement and executing transformational change projects.
• Sourcing Environment: Experience sourcing within a global multi‑site, cross‑functional, and matrix organizational structure.
• Core Skills: Strong ability in negotiation, influencing, relationship building, and stakeholder collaboration (up to the executive level). Working experience and successfully completed strategic sourcing cost optimization initiatives (practical knowledge on Total Cost of Ownership model and procurement cost levers) is a MUST.
• Business Acumen & Ethics: Required basic financial and legal awareness for analysis and contracts, coupled with exceptional integrity and the ability to manage complexity and ambiguity.

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Bromma is part of Kalmar.

About Kalmar

Kalmar (Nasdaq Helsinki: KALMAR) is moving goods in critical supply chains around the world, with the vision to be the forerunner in sustainable material handling equipment and services. The company offers a wide range of industry shaping heavy material handling equipment and services to ports and terminals, distribution centres, manufacturing and heavy logistics. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Kalmar operates globally in over 120 countries and employs approximately 5,200 people. In 2024, the company's sales totalled approximately EUR 1.7 billion.

www.kalmarglobal.com