Purpose of the Job

1. Manage all Engineering spend within the APAC Region
2. Be the key Procurement point of contact in the Region for all Engineering Projects
3. Develop and implement procurement strategy for Engineering Procurement including new investments but also all factory spend relating to equipment (maintenance, upgrades etc)
4. Drive commercial performance and continuous efficiency improvements for this Category
5. Develop suitable systems, processes and tools for for KPI tracking, efficiency improvement and vendor management / development
6. Management of key suppliers
7. Identification of category / function resource gaps within the region to drive  recruitement and development of appropriate talent to fill these gaps

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Main function/responsibilities

• Lead, drive and develop Engineering Category spend management in APAC
• Ultimately accountability for all procurement and efficiency targets for the this category in the Region
  • Risk Management
  • Savings Projects
  • Efficiency KPI’s
  • Working Capital Improvements
  • Sustainability
• Accountable for coordinating and administrating all high spend RFQ’s in lone with global Procurement competitive tendering policy
• Accountable to roll out global engineering procurement initiative
• Provide Regional expertise in all aspects of engineering procurement but with special focus on CAPEX projects – process and execution
• Compile, curate and analyses all category data for the region in order to develop robust category strategy to deliver short and medium term business targets
• Work closely with the local teams to implement procurement strategy on Regional / local level – providing project management support and managing  stakeholders effectively to remove any local project roadblocks
• Identify and develop projects to deliver continuous improvement in service levels, TCO, efficiency and systems & process
• Continuously asssess category resource in the region, identifying any skills or capability gaps and further make recommendations for recruitement, training and development
• Ensure the country team members have targets defined and is in alignment with the involved Sika Target Markets and country/regional strategies

• Assures compliance and ethical standards with applicable laws, Sika’s Procurement Manual and Sika Code of Conduct.