Regional Procurement Manager

Tundra Technical Solutions; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Tundra Technical Solutions is seeking a Regional Procurement Business Partner - APAC to act as the primary link between Global Category Management and business operations across Asia-Pacific. This role deploys approved global category strategies regionally, builds trusted stakeholder relationships, supports supplier adoption, and brings regional demand and market intelligence into global decisions.

The role collaborates with the Global Category Excellence & Deployment Lead on governance, KPIs

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations or a related field.

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

Skills

Stakeholder management

Sourcing

Procurement

Analytical thinking

Communication

English language

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The Regional Procurement Business Partner - APAC is the primary link between Global Category Management and business operations across Asia-Pacific. The role deploys approved global category strategies regionally, builds trusted stakeholder relationships, supports supplier and agreement adoption, and brings regional demand, market intelligence, regulatory considerations and execution risks into global category decisions. The role works closely with the Global Category Excellence & Deployment Lead on deployment plans, playbooks, governance, KPIs and corrective actions, and with Global Category Leads on category roadmaps, sourcing initiatives, supplier transitions and regional requirements. The role owns regional stakeholder engagement, adoption and execution of approved strategies; Global Category Leads retain category-strategy ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 expedite 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 & 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.
• 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.

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.