Regional Procurement Business Partner - APAC

Personnel Alter Ego; Malaysia; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Personnel Alter Ego, a Canadian-headquartered aerospace company, is seeking a Senior Regional Procurement Leader to drive deployment of global category strategies across the APAC region, with preference for Malaysia. You will partner with Training Centres and regional Operations to align demand with category actions and ensure continuity.

In this role you will collaborate with Global Category Management, manage supplier governance, drive compliant sourcing, and report on regional KPIs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Business, Supply Chain or related field.
• 7+ years in procurement, sourcing, or category management.
• Experience supporting multiple sites or countries in a matrix.
• Experience deploying sourcing strategies and leading change initiatives.
• Strong procurement, supplier-management, analytics and communication skills.
• Professional English required; additional regional languages are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute regional deployment plans aligned with approved global category strategies.
• Coordinate implementation of sourcing initiatives, supplier transitions and long-term agreements.
• Monitor milestones, dependencies, risks and adoption; escalate barriers requiring leadership decisions.
• Serve as the primary procurement partner for Training Centres and regional Operations stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships, understand demand and connect priorities to category actions.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and change activities that support adoption and continuity.
• Partner with Global Category Excellence and Deployment Lead to apply playbooks, governance and KPIs.
• Provide execution feedback to improve category plans and deployment methods.
• Drive use of approved suppliers, agreements and buying channels.
• Support supplier classification, rationalisation and performance-improvement activity.
• Identify non-compliant buying patterns and coordinate corrective actions with stakeholders.

Skills

Procurement strategy

Stakeholder management

Category management

Negotiation

Cross-cultural communication

Education

Bachelor degree

Tools

ERP systems

MS Excel

Job description

Location: Preferably Malaysia; otherwise APAC region

This Canadian-headquartered aerospace company is looking for you!

Key Responsibilities

Regional Strategy Deployment

• Develop and execute regional deployment plans aligned with approved global category strategies.
• Coordinate implementation of sourcing initiatives, supplier transitions, preferred-supplier programmes and long-term agreements.
• Monitor milestones, dependencies, risks and adoption, and escalate barriers requiring category or leadership decisions.

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as the primary procurement partner for assigned Training Centres and regional Operations stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships, understand upcoming demand and connect business priorities to category and sourcing actions.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and change activities that support adoption and business continuity.

Collaboration with Global Category Management

• Partner with the Global Category Excellence and Deployment Lead to apply common playbooks, governance, KPI definitions and corrective-action discipline.
• Partner with Global Category Leads to translate approved category roadmaps into regional actions and provide evidence-based demand, market, supplier and regulatory insight.
• Provide execution feedback and lessons learned to improve category plans and deployment methods.

Supplier Governance and Compliance

• Drive use of approved suppliers, agreements and buying channels.
• Support supplier classification, rationalisation, consolidation and performance-improvement activity.
• Identify non-compliant or after-the-fact buying patterns and coordinate corrective action with stakeholders, Category Leads, Local Buyers and Sourcing Execution.

Key Performance Indicators

• Percentage of approved regional deployment milestones completed on time.
• Percentage of addressable regional spend aligned with approved category strategies.
• Preferred-supplier utilisation, contract compliance and long-term agreement coverage.
• Progress against supplier-classification and rationalisation milestones.
• Validated regional savings, value contribution and risk mitigation supported by the role.
• Stakeholder satisfaction and completion of agreed engagement cadence.
• Timeliness and quality of regional demand, market and supplier intelligence provided to Global Category Leads.
• Percentage of deployment, supplier and stakeholder corrective actions closed by due date.
• On-time and accurate regional KPI and governance reporting in partnership with the Global Category Excellence and Deployment Lead.

Key Competencies

• Business Partnership: Builds trusted relationships and connects procurement priorities with regional business requirements.
• Strategy Deployment: Translates approved global category strategies into practical regional execution.
• Commercial and Supplier Management: Understands sourcing, supplier performance, agreements and compliance.
• Communication and Influence: Influences without authority and communicates effectively across cultures and organisational levels.
• Data-Driven Insight: Uses demand, spend, supplier, KPI and risk data to support decisions and escalation.
• Change Leadership: Drives stakeholder adoption and resolves execution barriers.
• Mindset: Balances enterprise alignment with valid regional requirements.

Key Relationships

• Internal: Global Category Excellence and Deployment Lead as the primary operating partner for deployment; Global Category Leads; Training Centre and regional Operations leaders; Local Buyers; Sourcing Execution; Finance, Legal, Risk, Compliance and IT.
• External: Regional and global suppliers, service providers and industry partners as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations or a related field.
• Typically 7+ years of progressive experience in procurement, sourcing, category management, supplier management or business partnering.
• Demonstrated experience supporting multiple sites, business units or countries in a matrix organisation.
• Experience deploying sourcing or category strategies and leading stakeholder-facing change initiatives.
• Strong procurement, commercial, supplier-management, analytical and communication capabilities.
• Professional English required; additional regional languages are an asset.
• A recognised procurement, supply chain or commercial designation is an asset.

Are you ready to take on this impressive challenge? We look forward to meeting you!