Senior Procurement Specialist

Sinergia Talents; Shah Alam; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sinergia Talents is seeking a Senior Procurement Specialist in Shah Alam, Malaysia to strategize sourcing, negotiate with suppliers, and maintain optimal stock levels for cost efficiency. The role collaborates with production, engineering, and logistics to minimize stockouts while ensuring safety and quality standards.

The candidate should bring extensive experience in aviation procurement and a strong track record in supplier performance, lead-time planning, and ERP-based purchase validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
• 6+ years experience in aviation (Component Maintenance preferred).
• 4+ years experience in Procurement, Warehousing, Logistics, or Shipping.

Responsibilities

• Promote safety culture and ensure Safety and Quality Policy is communicated and implemented.
• Efficiently purchase consumables and direct materials for MRO operations.
• Manage supplier relationships including performance, quality, and on-time delivery.
• Define and maintain MRP settings and forecast future demand in coordination with workshop.
• Drive procurement levels and validate requisitions produced by ERP before handover.

Skills

Procurement

Vendor management

Negotiation

ERP system

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ERP system

Job description

About the job Senior Procurement Specialist

Job Purpose:

Manage the company's sourcing capabilities and supply chain by strategizing and negotiating with suppliers and vendors and calculating and maintaining stock levels in order to acquire the most cost-effective deals and to reduce procurement expenses and work stoppages.

Key Responsibilities

• 1. To promote a positive Safety Culture and to ensure that Safety and Quality Policy is communicated/promoted and implemented within the Organization.


• 2. To efficiently and effectively buy consumable and expendable (direct material) material for the Company's MRO operations.


• 3. Deputize the Manager Supply Chain


• 4. Recover material shortages (DMAT) timely and to reduce work stoppage time to a minimum.


• 5. To manage the strategical and operational supplier relationship (performance management, quality adherence, on-time delivery, relationship, commercial aspects)


• 6. To develops new vendor business relationships to support specific requirements.


• 7. Key contributor to the planning strategies by managing planned and actual lead times.


• 8. To cooperate closely with all involved internal customers (e.g. Production Planner, Engineering, Workshop, Customer Service, Logistics, Quality, Finance) to operate at minimal stock level with highest availability


• 9. Define and maintain the MRP settings, by liaising with workshop in order to forecast future demand review.


• 10. Perform material planning including definition of stock levels, reorder points and safety level.


• 11. To drive the procurement level and validate purchase requisitions produced by an ERP system before they are handed over to procurement.


• 12. Analyse historical consumption data in order to recommend suitable planning models for certain material groups.


• 13. Identification of surplus material inventory and disposal of the material


• 14. Set measures in a format of KPI's


• 15. Negotiate pricing for contract agreement.


• 16. Manage, maintain, assess vendors periodically and involve in vendors improvement exercise


• 17. To perform any other duties as assigned by Management to achieve the Company goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.

6+ years experience in aviation (Component Maintenance preferred).

4+ years experience in Procurement, Warehousing, Logistics, or Shipping.