
Procurement Manager
- Makati City, Metro Manila
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Thoroughly understand spend category, vendor landscape, industry trends, and new emerging developments and service offerings. Apply analytics to identify cost and demand reduction opportunities.
- Integrate closely with the leadership team(s), project team, business owners of the businesses he/she supports to understand business unit goals and priorities.
- Generate and leverage market and supplier intelligence and data for development of sourcing and negotiation strategies.
- Execute on medium to high value/complexity sourcing projects and contracting efforts
- Lead the RFP, RFQ and RFI process for Philippines
- Determine sourcing strategy and conduct analysis and negotiations for category assigned
- Work with business partners to collect and finalize requirements necessary to evaluate and select suppliers
- Develop terms sheet based on negotiation strategies, with input from the business partners.
- Proactively coordinate and schedule external resources and subject matter experts (legal, risk, finance, etc.)
- Drive and lead the negotiation process, with consultative support, as required, from legal and risk.
- Track, monitor, and manage sourcing and contracting agenda across Philippines including progress, risk, and benefits development and realization
- Interface directly with business partners and vendor/contract managers
- Oversee and support vendor/contract managers in execution of business-led initiatives assigning internal support resources as necessary.
- Quantify savings achieved, drive efficiencies, centralize competencies and maximize the value of vendor relationships
- Define, report, and achieve vendor metrics and reporting – both strategic and tactical
- Influence and develop supplier negotiation strategies in conjunction with Asia Procurement Tower Lead
- Holistically understand and leverage key vendor relationships within a specific category
- Lead supplier negotiations, particularly for complex transactions, and ensure execution of developed strategy for Philippines
- Work with Procurement Country Lead to analyze and develop country strategy, drive execution and outcome of the strategy
- Other duties as assigned
- Bachelor's degree (business or finance preferred)
- Experience with sourcing and procurement systems and tools
- Solid analytical skills
- Understanding of standard contractual terms and conditions to mitigate legal and business risk
- Experience in vendor governance and risk management
- Knowledge of relevant legislative and regulatory requirements relating to management of third-party outsourcing in the jurisdictions in which Manulife operates
- Experience working in the relevant spend category, directly and/or in a procurement organization, with understanding of market trends, insights and technologies for Non-IT and/or IT categories
- Good negotiations skills – ability to negotiate commercial and contractual terms with the vendors