Strategic Commodity Lead: Cost, Continuity & Negotiations

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

Job summary

Workable in Singapore seeks a senior procurement professional to lead production-sourcing initiatives, translate engineering needs into supplier plans, and drive cost efficiencies. The role emphasizes supplier development, negotiations, and lifecycle management within a structured commodity framework.

You will coordinate with Engineering, Quality and Operations to ensure timely supplier readiness, accurate lead times and continuity of supply, while managing complex sourcing work packages and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive procurement and sourcing experience, including leadership in commodity strategy, supplier development, negotiation, and cross-functional stakeholder management.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Power BI, or equivalent analytics tools to support data-driven decision-making.
• Strong understanding of commercial terms, contract administration, and procurement best practices.
• Experience in semiconductor, precision engineering, or high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environments preferred.
• Familiarity with ERP systems, preferably Baan or Infor LN.
• Demonstrated track record in driving cost savings, supplier performance improvements, and supply continuity.
• Strong stakeholder management, analytical, and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate engineering changes and production requirements into sourcing plans addressing commercial, technical, quality, capacity, lead-time, inventory and supply-continuity considerations.
• Run production RFQs, conduct bid analyses, lead negotiations within delegated authority and prepare fact-based sourcing recommendations.
• Maintain complete, competitive and traceable sourcing records, ensuring recommendations align with technical, quality, capacity, cost, manufacturability and risk requirements.
• Coordinate production- and FAI-related changes, including cut-in and cut-out timing, supplier readiness, material availability and inventory impacts.
• Support price control, cost reduction, VA/VE and should-cost initiatives to improve commercial competitiveness while maintaining quality, delivery and technical requirements.
• Execute sourcing within the supplier allocation and commodity strategy approved by the Manager, Commodity Business Management, escalating exceptions and material trade-offs for decision.
• Work with Supplier Business Management to close supplier-performance actions, while retaining accountability for the related production-sourcing and commercial actions.
• Coordinate cross-functional inputs from Engineering, Quality, Planning, Materials Management, Operations and other relevant stakeholders, confirm accountable owners and track agreed actions through effective closure.
• Manage lifecycle and end-of-life sourcing requirements, including approved dual-source work packages, supplier transitions, last-time-buy considerations and continuity actions.
• Prioritise threats to production or customer commitments and drive credible sourcing and supplier recovery plans through to closure.
• Maintain visible cost, capacity, lead-time and supply-continuity risk-mitigation plans, including accountable owners, due dates, contingency actions, residual exposure and escalation triggers.
• Use KPIs and trend analysis to identify sourcing gaps, assign recovery actions and verify sustained improvement.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

ERP (Baan / Infor LN)

Job description

Workable in Singapore seeks a senior procurement professional to lead production-sourcing initiatives, translate engineering needs into supplier plans, and drive cost efficiencies. The role emphasizes supplier development, negotiations, and lifecycle management within a structured commodity framework.

You will coordinate with Engineering, Quality and Operations to ensure timely supplier readiness, accurate lead times and continuity of supply, while managing complex sourcing work packages and