Procurement Analyst (12 Months Contract)

JDE Peet's; Masai; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading coffee company in Malaysia is looking for a Procurement Analyst to lead efforts in achieving margin targets and managing supplier relationships. The role involves identifying cost-saving opportunities, driving supplier innovation, and ensuring compliance with internal policies. The ideal candidate should have strong analytical skills and be capable of evaluating supplier performance metrics while maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage supplier relationships and enhance cost savings.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate supplier performance metrics.
• Familiarity with internal compliance policies and procurement procedures.

Responsibilities

• Identify and drive total cost savings in categories.
• Manage supplier relationships to achieve cost and cash results.
• Drive innovation programs to explore new cost-saving technologies.

Job description

Procurement Analyst (12 Months Contract)

The core goals will be to lead the way to expected margin targets, manage a variety of different stakeholders who will be working with you very directly and closely, and to mature the category overall and prepare for future growth.

Your main responsibilities:

• Identify and prioritise opportunities to deliver total cost of ownership savings in your categories and drive the implementation of the plans to capture those opportunities.
• Proactively manage supplier relationships to deliver cost & cash results, to drive continuous improvement and position JDE as a customer of choice.
• Measure and benchmark performance to ensure that JDE has the most competitive cost base in your category.
• Drive innovation programmes in your category to continually search for cost saving opportunities, new technologies, new products and new suppliers that contribute to the overall strategy of the business.
• Contribute on sourcing strategies development for Regional categories, working closely with APAC Regional Procurement Team and execute strategies in local country.
• Define category strategies for Local categories, lead execution and track benefits realization.
• Establish and maintain portfolio of strategic agreements and key supplier relationships to manage risk in procuring Indirect Materials (i.e. pricing, supply, quality, etc.).
• Manage supplier selection for Local categories, negotiate & contract key suppliers and administer contracts; PO creation (for NCOGs categories).
• Manage supplier risk assessment (scanning via official tools and databases, financial assessment, etc.).
• Establish and analyse performance metrics in order to evaluate supplier performance.
• Keep oversight over set of contracts within category and ensure contract compliance considering payments terms, prices, discounts & rebates and performance in close collaboration with business.
• Understand the physical manufacturing process, including visiting plants to ensure guidelines are being followed, to deliver optimal goods & services to production plants.
• Ensure compliance to internal policies & procedures, have a deep understanding of and manage compliance to the Combined Business Model.
• Maintain purchasing records/data and pricing in the system.
• Identify and capitalize on opportunities to improve the organization’s buying patterns and supply channels.
• Monitor changing trends in price and availability of coffee, understand the complexity of the market (fundamentals and technical) and ensure proper reporting on financial performance and risks to internal stakeholders.
• Maintain and develop good working relationship with worldwide customers and suppliers.