Procurement Lead: Material Planning & Supply Assurance

VDL Enabling Technologies Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

VDL Enabling Technologies Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd is seeking a procurement professional who thrives on operational ownership in a fast-moving manufacturing environment. You will translate demand into purchase orders, manage supplier commitments, expediting, and inventory support to keep production on track.

You will work across Planning, Operations, Quality, Engineering, Warehouse and Finance, ensuring accurate ERP transactions and timely escalation of supply risks.

Qualifications

• Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 2-5 years of relevant experience in purchasing, materials planning, production planning, inventory management, or supply chain operations.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Power BI, or equivalent data analytics and reporting tools.
• Experience in ERP systems, preferably Baan or Infor LN.

Responsibilities

• Release and maintain purchase orders based on approved MRP requirements, production priorities and authorised purchasing arrangements.
• Take primary accountability for purchase-order execution, supplier expediting, shortage recovery, open-purchase-order control and inventory support for assigned materials and suppliers.
• Obtain and confirm supplier delivery commitments and maintain accurate purchase-order quantities, dates, lead times, confirmations and other relevant purchasing information in the ERP system.
• Manage material shortages, expediting priorities and supplier commitments, ensuring recovery actions and closure.
• Monitor supplier capacity, lead-time constraints and delivery performance, and escalate de-commitments, capacity limitations and other supply risks that may affect production or customer commitments.
• Support improvement of supplier on-time delivery, lead time, minimum order quantity and safety-stock parameters through data analysis, supplier follow-up and coordination with Planning and relevant stakeholders.
• Manage purchase-order rescheduling, pull-in, push-out and cancellation actions while supporting the reduction of excess, slow-moving and obsolete inventory.
• Coordinate rejected-material recovery, Supplier Corrective Action Requests, reverse logistics, replacement, rework and replenishment activities with Quality, Warehouse and suppliers.
• Participate in operational supplier-performance reviews and drive assigned delivery, responsiveness and recovery actions through to effective closure.
• Provide accurate operational data and execution support for approved alternate-source qualification, supplier-development activities and digital supply-chain visibility initiatives.
• Identify recurring purchasing, delivery, supplier and material-management issues; lead root-cause analysis, implement sustainable corrective actions and verify that improvements remain effective.
• Maintain clear and timely communication with Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Warehouse, Finance and suppliers regarding open orders, shortages, delivery risks and required recovery actions.
• Ensure purchasing transactions, supplier commitments and supporting records are current, accurate, traceable and compliant with approved procedures and delegated authority.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Education

Diploma/Bachelor's in SCM/Procurement/Engineering

Tools

Excel

Power BI

ERP (Baan/Infor LN)

Job description

VDL Enabling Technologies Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd is seeking a procurement professional who thrives on operational ownership in a fast-moving manufacturing environment. You will translate demand into purchase orders, manage supplier commitments, expediting, and inventory support to keep production on track.

You will work across Planning, Operations, Quality, Engineering, Warehouse and Finance, ensuring accurate ERP transactions and timely escalation of supply risks.