IT Software & Partnerships Category Lead

Singtel Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Singtel is seeking a Category Manager for IT Software and Partnerships to develop and execute sourcing strategies for Business Support Systems, SaaS, and other software applications. You will lead procurement activities across Singtel Group OpCos and manage IT software spend with a focus on achieving optimal commercial outcomes.

The role requires strong negotiation, stakeholder management, and analytics skills, with experience in Ariba/Coupa/iCertis and a strategic mindset to drive value across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in procurement, Telecom or Technology industry preferred
• Experience in procurement system (Ariba, Coupa, iCertis).
• Ability to contextualize data analytics into actionable sourcing insights, and adoption of AI.
• Strong negotiation and communications skills with vendors & stakeholders.
• Good financial acumen and vendor contracts management.
• Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills.
• Creative and hypothesis-led problem solving, framing and communicating complex ideas, thinking strategically, excellent numerical and analytical skills.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership, proactivity, productivity, valuable contribution to a team and having exceptional drive commitment.
• Strong team player

Responsibilities

• Identify, develop and implement joint sourcing opportunities and strategies for Enterprise & Software Applications category, specifically BSS, Hypervisors, Enterprise Licenses, SaaS and other software applications.
• Drive and lead procurement activities for said category across Singtel Group OpCos as part of Global Category Procurement team.
• Be fully responsible for Group IT Software spend under this category, with vision of driving scale across geographies prioritising high impact spend areas.
• Strengthen Group Regional engagement by establishing Group Regional Framework Agreement, Group Partnership and including price benchmarking for this IT category.
• Guide business users and enforces on procurement policy, governance and practices.
• Pro-actively influence stakeholders across Group OpCos in line with category strategies.
• Lead contract negotiations with suppliers with support from key stakeholders.
• Provide market knowledge, intelligence and expertise while working closely with business stakeholders and suppliers.

Skills

Data analytics

AI awareness

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Project management

Numerical skills

Leadership

Team player

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Ariba

Coupa

iCertis

Job description

Singtel is seeking a Category Manager for IT Software and Partnerships to develop and execute sourcing strategies for Business Support Systems, SaaS, and other software applications. You will lead procurement activities across Singtel Group OpCos and manage IT software spend with a focus on achieving optimal commercial outcomes.

The role requires strong negotiation, stakeholder management, and analytics skills, with experience in Ariba/Coupa/iCertis and a strategic mindset to drive value across