Buyer / Buying Associate [Yearly Renewable Contract]

CELESTICA ELECTRONICS (S) PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Celestica Electronics (S) PTE LTD in Singapore is seeking a procurement professional to support multiple commodities and technologies, building expertise while aligning work with our strategic goals.

You will collaborate with finance and legal to ensure controls and compliance, assess supplier bases, and negotiate contracts for low-risk suppliers while driving cost efficiencies.

Qualifications

• First level university degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically, 2-4 years of experience in procurement or supply chain function.
• Mastery in English and local language.
• Developed understanding of procurement processes.
• Demonstrated analytical and technical aptitude.
• Good business application skills.
• Developed communication skills.
• Basic understanding of corporate compliance.
• Basic project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provides procurement support across multiple commodities and technologies.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners to meet business objectives and ensure controls and compliance.
• Performs tasks and aligns work with overall strategy using discretion and judgment.
• Collaborates with teams to maintain and enhance current operations and processes.
• Executes process improvements.
• May lead activities for less complex domains.
• Assesses the supply base of category.
• Negotiates contracts with low-risk suppliers and manages day-to-day operations for low-complexity suppliers.
• Executes standard risk mitigation and cost management strategies.
• Performs ad-hoc duties as assigned.

Skills

Procurement

Supply chain

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Project management

Compliance awareness

Financial acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Performs tasks such as, but not limited to the following:-

• Provides procurement support, focusing on multiple simple- to-complex, commodities, as well as specific technologies, to develop expertise.
• Collaborates with internal and external partners (e.g., finance, legal) to meet business objectives and ensure control and compliance requirements across businesses.
• Performs tasks as assigned and applies experience to align individual work with overall strategy using discretion and judgment.
• Collaborates with teams to maintain and enhance the current operations and processes.
• Executes process improvements.
• May lead activities for less complex domains.
• Assesses the supply base of category.
• Negotiations contracts with low-risk suppliers; engages with low-complexity suppliers; may be responsible for day-to-day operations of low complexity suppliers.
• Executes standard risk mitigation and business continuity, cost management and operations strategies.
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned in accordance to business needs

Requirements:-

• First level university degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically, 2-4 years of experience in procurement or supply chain function.
• Mastery in English and local language.
• Developed understanding of procurement processes.
• Demonstrated analytical and technical aptitude.
• Good business application skills.
• Developed communication skills.
• Basic understanding of corporate compliance.
• Basic project management skills.

Work Location:-

• 452 Alexandra Road Singapore 119961

Working Days / Hours:-

• 8am - 5.30pm / 8.30am - 6pm [Mondays to Fridays]

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law).

At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud.

Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.