Manager, Strategic Sourcing

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

Job summary

Alcon Singapore is seeking a Procurement Manager to drive the site procurement strategy, lead sourcing activities, and ensure compliant, value-driven procurement across manufacturing operations. You will partner with internal stakeholders to deliver reliable supply and optimize supplier performance.

The ideal candidate has 8–10 years in procurement within a manufacturing environment, familiarity with SAP and Ariba, and strong MS Office skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or equivalent qualification is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage all sourcing activities and commercial negotiation on MTO site requirements.
• Creating business values through prompt, compliant and commercially advantageous procurement intervention to ensure internal stakeholders’ satisfaction.
• Lead, initiate and drive strategic procurement plans partnering with key stakeholders.
• Initiating procurement strategic sourcing plans for all direct materials and being able to communicate and work closely together with internal stakeholder to ensure prompt initiative implementation and closure.
• Drives alternate sourcing activities and commercial discussion for key materials from both BCM and cost perspectives, while maintaining close collaboration with internal stakeholders in the process.
• Lead commercial negotiation, project implementation for major CAPEX spending across MTO, and bringing to fruition the complete contract execution.
• Identify and initiative continuous improvement opportunities and work as part of cross functional teams to deliver and achieve savings targets, while driving positive PPV that has direct contribution to site TPC targets.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Sourcing & negotiation

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor or equivalent qualification

Tools

SAP

Ariba

Excel

Power BI

PowerPoint

Job description

Alcon is looking to hire a Procurement Manager in Singapore. You will be instrumental in supporting Procurement Head driving the site procurement strategy in the right direction. Key accountabilities include ensuring procurement compliances are adhered on site from both process and system standpoint as well as achieving reliable and sustainable supply of goods, materials, and services with well-managed supplier management structure.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage all sourcing activities and commercial negotiation on MTO site requirements.
• Creating business values through prompt, compliant and commercially advantageous procurement intervention to ensure internal stakeholders’ satisfaction.
• Lead, initiate and drive strategic procurement plans partnering with key stakeholders.
• Initiating procurement strategic sourcing plans for all direct materials and being able to communicate and work closely together with internal stakeholder to ensure prompt initiative implementation and closure.
• Drives alternate sourcing activities and commercial discussion for key materials from both BCM and cost perspectives, while maintaining close collaboration with internal stakeholders in the process.
• Lead commercial negotiation, project implementation for major CAPEX spending across MTO, and bringing to fruition the complete contract execution.
• Identify and initiative continuous improvement opportunities and work as part of cross functional teams to deliver and achieve savings targets, while driving positive PPV that has direct contribution to site TPC targets.

Procurement Compliance

Accountable to ensure compliance while executing all of procurement activities on site. Responsible to drive adherence of site procurement processes to Alcon global procurement policies and procedures. Supports internal and external audits where necessary, on procurement related accountabilities.

Supplier Management

Lead and drive vendor performance cross-functionally and spearheading continuous optimization efforts with strategic and/or critical suppliers as identified.

Contract Management

Responsible for overall suppliers’ contract management including negotiation of new contracts, renewal of expiring required contracts and ensure full compliance in contract execution.

Procurement Systems & Reporting

Ensure timely and accurate purposeful reporting and site-wide communication of various procurement indices (e.g., aging PO, procurement non-conformance etc.), to be effectively communicated both at working (site-wide) and senior management level. Monitoring market dynamics that impact materials/services availability and/or pricing and provide resolutions to the site with detail impact analysis. Supports the team in site-implementation of any new global procurement systems and/or related tools, as needed.

Qualifications

Bachelor or equivalent qualification as minimum is preferred. Minimum 8-10 years of relevant experience gained from cross functional environment in procurement field, preferably with direct exposure within a manufacturing technical operation (MTO) environment. Familiarization with SAP and Ariba is a plus. Strong MS office skills (Excel, Power BI & PowerPoint).

Ideal Candidate

Confidence and credibility with excellent communication and relationship management skills with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders. Positive personal energy, self-motivation and productivity and encourages good resilience in others. Proactive mindset, capability to enjoy different environment and appreciate opportunity to step up to given new challenges. Results-oriented achiever. Detailed, versatile, resourceful, and good interpersonal skills. Excellent at analytical skills.

About Alcon

At Alcon, we are committed to helping people see better. We believe patients should have access to quality eye care regardless of their economic circumstances; however, barriers to good eye health exist for patients in both developed and emerging markets. Alcon develops and manufactures innovative devices to serve the full life cycle of eye care needs. Its surgical group is one of the largest makers of equipment used for cataract removal and laser vision correction. Its consumer products include the well-known Opti-Free line of contact lens solutions and related products. Alcon, which was founded in 1945, sells its products in 180 countries worldwide.