Chemicals Procurement Manager
- Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage specific chemicals and fertilizer portfolio in operational procurement to support the mills and plantation globally, with a focus on Indonesia and China sites
- Lead a proactive, collaborative and communicative process to select, manage, and establish strong partnerships with external counterparties and internal stakeholders. Ensure cost, quality, delivery, reliability and technical performance while achieving both tactical and strategic goals
- Be well-versed in the life cycle of a commercial trade/ deal and must have prior hands-on experiences in most of these activities
- Be commercially competent in being able to lead business development projects (e.g. acquisitions, joint ventures investments) where necessary to create long term value for the stakeholders
- Be proficient in identifying, qualifying and establishing new vendors, striving to meet and exceed our customers' quality requirements for the chemical and fertilizer commodities.
- Be proficient in analyzing markets and knowing how to turn data into actionable market intelligence to execute better procurement strategies
- Effective and efficient communicator to senior management and external counterparties from diverse global locations
- Responsible to achieve assigned cost savings targets
- Study and monitor the market conditions for making sound and timely purchasing decision
- Take a global lead role in overseeing the key chemical and fertilizer purchases across all mills to develop a commodity strategy which is in line with global strategy
- Provide regular market updates to senior management
- Any other group level ad-hoc projects as assigned by reporting manager
- Travelling of 15~25% is expected to promote and develop business goals
- Graduate in Engineering or Business Management or related field from a reputable university. Masters would be an advantage.
- Minimum 10 years of commodities trading experience or direct procurement. Individual with strong commercial mindset are also welcome to apply.
- Managed at least a P&L trading book or procurement spend of US$200 million per year.
- Past overseas working experience would be an advantage.
- Demonstrate good commercial thought process and effective communication both written and verbal
- Have good Chemical and/or Agri commodity and/or Chemical Fertilizer commodity buying (or Sales/trading) knowledge and experience
- Must have excellent negotiation skills and a proven track record in goal achievement
- Demonstrates ability in being able to frame up (including economics of) mid to long term business development projects
- Require long term strategic thinking mindset
- Good interpersonal and communication skill to interact with different levels of people
- Good working attitude and willing to adapt to local culture and way of working
- Proven management experience in managing small teams to achieve common goals
- Must have good ethics and able to conduct himself or herself honestly and with compliance
- Proven experience in market analysis or data analytics would be a plus
- Must be proficient in both Mandarin and English (written and spoken)