Responsibilities:

• Lead the local procurement team to manage an annual spend of indirect commodities and capital expenditures.
• Leverage the purchasing power by consolidating business volume of categories across Brands, Corporate Departments at country level.
• Attain year-on-year saving targets of different PMT initiatives, ensure local adherence to PMT saving methodology.
• Track and validate the saving reported by local suppliers, seek approval from the internal stakeholders and report to Regional Indirect Procurement team.
• Govern the execution of Global Procurement Policy, ensure the Policy is best adapting to local requirements in terms of business, cultural, legal, regulatory and economical from time to time.
• Co-lead strategic sourcing process, (e.g. RFI/RFQ/RFP), bid evaluation, supplier selection by using the category management
• methods.
• Work with Regional Indirect Procurement to establish local cross-functional teams in country to deploy CMT strategies.
• Increase spend visibility to engage procurement influence earlier in specification design and decision making stage.  
• Introduce robust metrics to optimize local sourcing practices, examine procurement function’s effectiveness in areas of risk management, supply chain security, sustainability and innovation.
• Ensure high quality of goods and services, reduced supply continuity and contractual risks in the supply of commodities.
• Responsible for briefing the stakeholders (internal customers) on deployment plans, activities, timelines, and their respective roles/responsibilities.
• Maintain contract repository of locally signed legal agreements.
• Participate in resolutions of any issue or dispute, escalate issues early and appropriately.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities and establish sources for new technologies and markets as driven by business requirements.
• Measure and manage the overall performance of suppliers implemented with KPIs.
• Drive supplier collaboration and innovation and maintain close relationship with key strategic suppliers.
• Pro-actively provide market/ supplier intelligence to the Regional Indirect Procurement team (Hong Kong based) for PMT initiatives driven regionally or/and globally.
• Communicate extensively the progress of projects, issues, and benefits of the initiatives with internal stakeholders and Regional Procurement team. 
• Lead, coach, develop, train and motivate the local buyer networks.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Supply Chain or other related fields.
• At least 5 years of experience in purchasing or procurement
• Excellent project management skill and analytical experience to deliver both initially and the final steps of the sourcing process.
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Diplomacy with strong listening and analyzing skills
• Good working in team and be able to engage or lead discussion.
• Good communication skill both Thai and English.
• Experience in SAP or ERP will be advantage

Worldwide Most Prestigious Cosmetics Company People all over the world associate us with beauty. This is because we import and distribute internationally famous cosmetics and fragrances i.e. Estee Lauder, Clinique, Origins, M.A.C, Bobbi Brown, Jo Malone London, La Mer, Aveda, Aerin and Tom Ford Beauty. However, we at ELCA believe that we belong to more than just a group of highly successful companies dealing with beauty. We are ourselves one beautiful , warm family. We have a highly competitive atmosphere that offers dynamic training programs, challenging assignments and vast opportunities for advancement. We also provide a warm culture with supportive management, local as well as international. To cope with our rapid growth, we are presently looking for dynamic, talented and success-driven professionals who are prepared to discover the beauty of our organization

Interested candidates are invited to submit resume stating qualifications and experiences, present and expected salaries together with a recent photo to: 

Talent Acquisition , ELCA (Thailand) LTD. 990 Rama IV Road ,Abdulrahim Place 20th. Floor , Silom , Bangrak, Bangkok 10500 

Tel : (02) 624 -6000 ext 6147  

e-mail : [email protected]