- Evaluate and manage purchase requests from all departments within the assigned category and liaise with requesting department through the entire procurement process from developing key bidding criteria / specification for high value purchases, and vendor evaluation for assigned categories vendor selection negotiation
- Manage and directly execute transactional procurement in P2P systems & Ad-hoc requests following the strategy & qualified key vendors to ensure supply of goods & services provided for Daikin in good quality, adequate, timely and cost effectively.
- Align with requesting departments to establish or revise KPIs to assess new vendors or evaluate existing vendors on an on-going basis (price, quality, volume capabilities, payment terms, etc.).
- Manage and source for potential local vendors, build up vendor relationship and vendor engagement to ensure supply is stable anytime
- Work out effective solution during process, consult, convince user to follow to save cost or reduce processing time
- Contribute to improve purchasing process, train others about process and EPR
- Conduct periodical review of vendor performance and proposed revision for preferred vendors when necessary
- Weekly/monthly report about expense, saving, SLA, procurement issue and propose solution
- Conduct market price trend analysis and evaluation to identify procuring opportunities, develop monthly expense reports for the assigned category to provide insights into procurement expenses compared to plan
- Ensure compliance to company's policy and procedures in key processes (PR, PO, RFQ, bidding and payment, etc)