Procurement Lead

Liberty Specialty Markets; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global specialty insurer seeks a Procurement Manager to manage procurement across Singapore and Hong Kong. The successful candidate will enhance supplier relationships and drive cost-saving initiatives, ensuring compliance across legal entities. This role offers significant impact on the company's procurement strategies and operations.

Benefits

Wellness and Inclusion programs

Career Development opportunities

Community and Environmental engagement

Qualifications

• Capacité avancée à communiquer avec les parties prenantes tant internes qu'externes.
• Expérience en gestion de contrats commerciaux et en gestion des risques.
• Expérience prouvée dans la gestion de RFP et la rédaction de contrats commerciaux.

Responsibilities

• Construire et maintenir des relations solides avec les parties prenantes internes et les fournisseurs clés.
• Conduire des initiatives d'économies et identifier des opportunités de création de valeur.
• Développer et mettre en œuvre des stratégies de sous-catégories pour optimiser les activités d'approvisionnement.

Skills

Advanced negotiation skills

Strong collaboration skills

Strong relationship building

Analytical skills

Decision-making skills

Job description

Do you come with a broad range of Procurement experience covering a wide range of categories, with proven experience of contact negotiation & supplier relationship management?

Do you like the sound of managing procurement across Singapore and Hong Kong, driving strategic initiatives that deliver cost savings and strengthening vendor partnerships?

If you’re ready to make a tangible impact on the business by collaborating with multiple teams, shaping procurement policies, and ensuring compliance across legal entities, then read on to find out more!

Who are we?

At Liberty, we take a long-term view, and part of that is building genuine relationships, both internally with colleagues and externally with our clients and brokers. Our people have the opportunity to make a real impact; we want to grow people's careers, recognize their potential, celebrate their uniqueness, and provide them with the knowledge and environment to succeed.

Liberty's leadership team and management have the stability, experience, and foresight to guide us through the ups and downs of the financial cycle, while empowering our teams to focus on market relevance and delivering quality customer service. Other benefits include:

• Wellness and Inclusion – our employees are what make us outstanding, and we celebrate diversity. We offer a range of tools to support employee well-being and diversity, inclusion, and equity, such as well-being training, cultural induction days led by senior leadership teams, EAP guidance, employee led community groups, office massages, generous parental leave allowance, fresh fruit, and more.

• Career Development – comprehensive induction program, promotions from within, extensive technical and non-technical training, regional and global travel and secondment opportunities, management and leadership development programs, change management training, and more.
• Community and Environment – our charities align themselves with the Liberty philosophy of helping people live safer and more secure lives, and all Liberty employees are actively encouraged to get involved in giving back to the community. Whether that means participating in company-organized volunteering opportunities, attending fund-raising events, or using your extra paid day per year of service leave dedicated to community service.

Why Liberty?

• Our underwriting & claims methodologies and technical expertise.
• Stable proven leadership.
• Our Market Approach is built on capability, consistency, and personal rapport.
• Market-leading products.
• Our product development team ensures we are quick to address gaps and introduce new products to the market.
• Autonomous, performance-oriented culture.
• Global organization - Opportunities for secondments.
• Profitable year on year since establishment.

Key responsibilities?

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and key suppliers, negotiating favorable terms and conditions to secure optimal pricing, quality, and delivery schedules.
• Drive cost-saving initiatives and identify opportunities for value creation, supplier consolidation, and process improvements.
• Develop and implement subcategory strategies to optimise procurement and sourcing activities across legal entities and the Asia Pacific region.
• Ensure compliance with relevant policies, including procurement policies, procedures, regulations, and ESG requirements.
• Prepare and present regular reports and analyses to senior management, providing insights and recommendations on procurement performance, improvement opportunities, potential risks, and KPIs related to contract management.
• Participate in procurement, risk, and compliance projects across Liberty International Insurance Asia Pacific (LII APAC), Liberty International Insurance (LII), and Liberty Mutual (LM).
• Collaborate with Operational Resilience, Procurement teams, LII APAC, LII, and LM to ensure alignment and adoption of best practices.
• Assist with the maintenance of Procurement intranet pages, SharePoint, Jira, and future tools or systems to ensure they remain current and fit for purpose.

About you

• Advanced ability to communicate professionally with internal & external stakeholders
• Advanced negotiation skills
• Strong collaboration skills
• Strong relationship building and influencing skills
• Advanced analytical skills and business acumen skills
• Strong decision-making skills
• Strong ability to meet deadlines and self-driven Some procurement experience, ideally covering a wide range of categories
• Experience in services procurement
• Proven ability to build supplier relationships and negotiate contracts
• Ability to communicate with and influence stakeholders at all levels of seniority
• Proven experience managing RFPs, developing scoring matrices, and guiding stakeholders through the process
• Experience in risk management and commercial contract management
• Proven expertise in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts

If you believe you can make a positive contribution to our team and want to be part of Liberty's exciting future, we would love to hear from you. Please include an updated resume, and we will take it from there. Apply now!

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