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This Position reports to:
Procurement Manager

Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to pro-actively manage and execute the Procurement and Logistics strategies that support the business by optimizing costs, quality, and reliability of suppliers and supplied products. You will also showcase your expertise by implementing effective sourcing strategies in line with business requirements to ensure that suppliers have the capability and capacity to meet current and future business requirements.

The work model for the role is: onsite/hybrid
This role is contributing to the Process Automation Energy Industries in Thailand .

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Developing competitive sourcing & supplier management solutions in projects within the defined requirements, ensuring alignment between local procurement activities and division strategy.
• Early engagement with Business and Operations team in planning sourcing strategies and implementing initiatives to drive improvement in cost, quality, and delivery, in accordance with group/business area procurement guidelines and global division/business area objectives.
• Execution and tracking of procurement activities to identify, analyze, and address procurement risks across all projects in the assigned country/s, ensuring proper and necessary mitigating actions are put in place.
• Compliance towards local trade & logistics requirements on import/export permits, tax, custom clearance, shipping documents, etc. Transfer of knowledge on logistic process and incoterms policy to the stakeholders and ensure seamless execution during project phase.
• Applying and implementing procurement standards, tools, and processes in area of responsibility to secure quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's Degree or Masters in an engineering discipline or finance/business administration, strong technical and analytical understanding
• About 8 - 10 years of experience in project sourcing, procurement and supply chain covering
• automation and electrical equipment and services.
• Good knowledge of commodity / business relevant supply markets.
• Strong knowledge of business, policies and organization including Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) systems and local Logistics processes and requirements.
• Good cultural understanding with excellent communication skills, structured, results oriented, self-driven, proactive, takes ownership.
• Strong negotiation skills with contractual/legal understanding.

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in
their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division's goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.

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