Hong Kong Job Openings
Cathay Pacific
Assistant Procurement Manager - IT Infrastructure
September 19, 2024
- APD - Procurement & Aircraft Trading
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
- Cathay Pacific
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Application Deadline
03 Oct 2024
Reports to: IT Procurement Manager - Infrastructure
As an Assistant Manager, you will have the opportunity to optimize costs by seeking the best value for money, lead the evaluation and selection of suppliers, ensure excellent supplier performance, oversee contract negotiations, and guarantee the highest level of ethics and compliance. You will also ensure that our procurement policies and procedures meet internal and external compliance requirements around diversity, social responsibility, and sustainability goals.
Working for an airline like Cathay Pacific Airways offers a unique and dynamic work environment, with the opportunity to be part of a global team that is dedicated to providing exceptional service to our customers. Don't miss this chance to take your career to new heights and make a real impact in the procurement of our IT services.
As an Assistant Manager in Services Procurement, you will have the chance to develop your skills and grow your career while making a meaningful contribution to the success of the company. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about procurement and is looking to take on new challenges and responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Category Strategy: Identifying and driving category opportunities in conjunction with stakeholder departments and the Procurement Manager through supplier assessment and benchmarking processes and conducting detailed analytical work for planning purposes.
- Spend Analysis: Tracking, analysing and forecasting of spend for key suppliers in the category, with a view to finding opportunities to optimize and improve expenditure, simplify related processes, and ensure consistency with local/remote offices.
- Market Research: Understanding the supplier market, existing solution offerings, future market trends, product alternatives, new business models, etc. Monitor the supply market that caters to our business needs.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Developing strong supplier relationships and ensuring the suppliers deliver as per their contractual obligations with a focus on long term supplier relationship management.
- Stakeholder Management: effectively develop and maintain strong working-level relationships with BU stakeholders to promote category strategies and ensure overall alignment between the business and the procurement objectives.
- Leading end-to-end sourcing projects, from market research, prepare & manage RFx process using Ariba e-sourcing platform, financial analysis, contract & commercial negotiation and team evaluation to contracting.
- Provide advice to cross-functional teams to implement category strategies and ensure that existing strategies are consistently improved and implemented.
- Using Ariba system for spend monitoring, ensuring best practice cost control mechanisms are in place.
- Assisting and supporting the category manager in carrying out any other relevant duties which may be required.
- 3 years' relevant experience.
- Procurement and category management experience is preferred.
- Ability to adapt and learn rapidly to be able to talk the language of the stakeholders.
- Understanding of regulatory requirements and basic contract law.
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of basic accounting principles.
- Ability to inspire, and build trust and respect among the APD community.
- Excellent people skills; including the ability to negotiate and influence internal and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to define and implement strategies.
- Approachable and decisive.
Cathay Pacific is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our personal data policy and for recruitment purposes only. Candidates not notified within eight weeks may consider their application unsuccessful. All related information will be kept in our file for up to 24 months. A copy of our Personal Information Collection Statement will be provided upon request by contacting our Data Protection Officer.
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