Senior Category Specialist

QuessGlobal (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd; Shah Alam; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restaurant d'entreprise

Indemnités de stage/alternance

Job summary

QuessGlobal (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd is seeking an experienced Procurement Category Manager to lead category strategies and supplier engagements in Malaysia. The role focuses on maintaining category portfolios, benchmarking suppliers, and developing centralized and decentralized sourcing models to optimize value.

You will analyze markets, publish reports, and negotiate with suppliers while ensuring compliance with commercial terms. Travel to regional suppliers is expected as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Finance, Financial Management, Marketing or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, including 5 years in a management role (managing categories, suppliers or teams).
• Electrical equipment or EPC industry background.
• Strong grounding in category management principles, related laws and regulations, and commercial and contractual terms.
• Strong negotiation skills and market intelligence gathering ability.
• Proficient in written and spoken English and in MS Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel).
• Mandarin is required to communicate with suppliers from China.
• Regional experience preferred; willing to travel at short notice.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update the company category portfolio, tiering materials by attributes and data insights
• Analyse supply markets, publish regular reports, and develop and maintain procurement strategies for your categories
• Benchmark the industry to identify and develop new, high-quality suppliers
• Set up and run centralised and decentralised sourcing models based on commodity and supplier classification
• Assess supplier capability (TQDRCE) and manage suppliers across their full lifecycle
• Lead commercial negotiations, close cooperation agreements and manage supplier relationships
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and category management best practice within the department
• Support ad-hoc tasks assigned by your supervising leader

Skills

Category management

Negotiation

Market intelligence

MS Office

English proficiency

Mandarin

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Finance, Marketing or related field

Job description

Maintain and update the company category portfolio, tiering materials by attributes and data insights

Analyse supply markets, publish regular reports, and develop and maintain procurement strategies for your categories

Benchmark the industry to identify and develop new, high-quality suppliers

Set up and run centralised and decentralised sourcing models based on commodity and supplier classification

Assess supplier capability (TQDRCE) and manage suppliers across their full lifecycle

Lead commercial negotiations, close cooperation agreements and manage supplier relationships

Contribute to knowledge sharing and category management best practice within the department

Support ad-hoc tasks assigned by your supervising leader

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree or above in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Finance, Financial Management, Marketing or a related field

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, including 5 years in a management role (managing categories, suppliers or teams)

Electrical equipment or EPC industry background

Strong grounding in category management principles, related laws and regulations, and commercial and contractual terms

Strong negotiation skills and market intelligence gathering ability

Proficient in written and spoken English and in MS Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)

Mandarin is required to communicate with suppliers from China

Regional experience preferred; willing to travel at short notice

Quess Corp is India’s largest and a fastest growing company globally in Staffing and Workforce Solutions, empowering businesses to enhance productivity through our future ready solutions.

Established in 2007 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Quess is one of the fastest growing company globally in workforce management industry.

With our presence in more than 30+ offices across India & 8+ offices globally which includes Southeast Asia, North America and the Middle East, we offer a comprehensive suite of technology-driven staffing and managed outsourcing services, and are a leading provider across BFSI, Retail, Telecom, IT, GCCs, BPO services, Manufacturing, Engineering and more.

Quess Corp is India’s largest and a fastest growing company globally in Staffing and Workforce Solutions, empowering businesses to enhance productivity through our future ready solutions.

Established in 2007 and headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Quess is one of the fastest growing company globally in workforce management industry.

With our presence in more than 30+ offices across India & 8+ offices globally which includes Southeast Asia, North America and the Middle East, we offer a comprehensive suite of technology-driven staffing and managed outsourcing services, and are a leading provider across BFSI, Retail, Telecom, IT, GCCs, BPO services, Manufacturing, Engineering and more.