Procurement Manager

Igo Digital High Technology; Philippines; On-site; PHP 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Igo Digital High Technology in the Philippines seeks a Procurement Leader to build and lead a strategic procurement function that protects resources while enabling growth. The role aligns governance, cost efficiency, transparency, and long-term value with executive leadership and cross-functional partners.

The successful candidate will drive process improvements, supplier excellence, and data-driven decision making while developing a high-performing team for sustained value creation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive procurement leadership experience.
• Experience building procurement orgs in fast-growing or complex businesses.
• Strong background in strategic sourcing, supplier management, contract negotiation, and procurement governance.
• Experience collaborating with executive leadership on business and investment decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change and influence cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build Procurement as a Strategic Business Function: Develop the company’s procurement strategy, governance framework, and operating model.
• Drive Commercial Excellence: Lead sourcing strategy, supplier selection, contract negotiations, and commercial discussions.
• Governance, Risk & Compliance: Build a procurement environment with high standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.
• Supplier & Partnership Management: Develop a high-performing supplier ecosystem based on capability, reliability, quality, and long-term value.
• Procurement Operations & Digitalization: Improve procurement efficiency through standardization, automation, and digital tools; establish dashboards.
• Team Leadership: Build, coach, and develop a high-performing procurement organization, fostering ownership and collaboration.

Job description

Job description

We are looking for a Procurement Leader who thinks like a business owner, not a buyer.

This role is responsible for building a procurement function that protects the company’s resources while enabling business growth. Beyond sourcing and supplier management, the role is expected to establish governance, improve commercial discipline, optimize spend, and create a procurement organization that is trusted by both business leaders and executive management.

Success is not measured by how many purchase orders are processed, but by how effectively procurement improves decision quality, cost efficiency, transparency, and long‑term business value.

Key Responsibilities

• 1. Build Procurement as a Strategic Business Function
  Develop the company’s procurement strategy, governance framework, and operating model.
  Establish procurement policies, approval authorities, and category management.
  Ensure procurement is involved early in business decisions rather than only at the purchasing stage.
  Drive procurement maturity from transactional execution to strategic value creation.
• 2. Drive Commercial Excellence
  Challenge business requirements when appropriate and ensure spending aligns with business priorities.
  Lead sourcing strategy, supplier selection, contract negotiations, and commercial discussions.
  Optimize total cost of ownership instead of focusing solely on purchase price.
  Continuously identify opportunities for cost optimization without compromising quality, speed, or business outcomes.
• 3. Governance, Risk & Compliance
  Build a procurement environment with high standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.
  Ensure procurement decisions are objective, well documented, and auditable.
  Identify and manage supplier risks, commercial risks, and operational risks.
  Partner closely with Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Internal Audit to strengthen governance.
• 4. Supplier & Partnership Management
  Develop a high‑performing supplier ecosystem based on capability, reliability, quality, and long‑term value.
  Build supplier performance evaluation and continuous improvement mechanisms.
  Maintain healthy strategic partnerships while protecting the company’s commercial interests.
• 5. Procurement Operations & Digitalization
  Improve procurement efficiency through standardization, automation, and digital tools.
  Establish procurement dashboards covering spend visibility, supplier performance, savings, cycle time, compliance, and risk.
  Promote data‑driven decision making across procurement activities.
• 6. Team Leadership
  Build, coach, and develop a high‑performing procurement organization.
  Foster a culture of ownership, integrity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  Raise the overall commercial capability of the procurement team and internal stakeholders.

We are looking for someone who demonstrates:

• -Commercial Judgment: Able to challenge demand constructively and make balanced business decisions.
• -Integrity: Acts with the highest ethical standards and remains objective under pressure.
• -Business Mindset: Thinks beyond procurement and understands how decisions impact growth, profitability, risk, and operations.
• -Influence: Builds trust across functions and can navigate complex stakeholder environments without relying on authority alone.
• -Analytical Thinking: Makes decisions based on facts, data, and long‑term value.
• -Builder Mentality: Enjoys creating systems, improving processes, and building teams from the ground up.

Preferred Experience:

• -10+ years of progressive procurement leadership experience.
• -Experience building procurement organizations in fast‑growing or complex businesses.
• -Strong background in strategic sourcing, supplier management, contract negotiation, and procurement governance.
• -Experience working closely with executive leadership on business and investment decisions.
• -Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change and influence cross‑functional stakeholders.