Job Description
The role is diverse, challenging and provides a unique career and professional development opportunity for the incumbent. The Procurement manager fulfils a key role in the Property Management business as follows:
- Prepare annual procurement plans to meet business and account strategies
- Strategically build a supplier list to support PM business requirements
- Lead building local procurement governance and processes
- Develop purchasing strategies, closely working with operational teams to reduce expenses, build service offerings, tailor scopes of requirements, and support tendering of services
- Assist site manager to negotiate costs/fees, contract conditions and SLAs
- Implementing best practice for both contracting and sourcing strategies and programs to increase operational efficiency and profitability
- Manage supplier/contractor certification process including the review of requisite experience, legal and organizational structure, financial viability, geographic coverage, insurance requirements and other capabilities
- Assist with the maintenance of a contracts database, and establish requirements for ensuring the integrity of the centralized sourcing database system
- Manage the process of contract terminations, expirations, extensions, and renewals
- Manage the supplier performance management and development program
- Standardize contract forms for PM services contracts
- Assist operational teams to ensure KPIs are regularly reviewed, and performance standards are met
- Develop and manage relationships with suppliers and contractors and assist in contract negotiations
- Support and participate in the tendering process and presentations
- Contribute in the further development and input of CBRE benchmark database
- Anticipate and leverage our APAC matrix organization to ensure consistency in approach across the region
Client and Stakeholders Relationship Management
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with all members of Property Management without compromising independence and integrity of service delivery
- Develop effective working relationships with Shared Services / Platform / National Leadership in order to leverage resources and to support corporate initiatives in compliance, training and risk management
- Support business leaders in demonstrating Property Management business operations capability in new business opportunities