Regional Procurement Manager – Base Oil
bp
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Kuala Lumpur • Malaysia
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About the role
- To be accountable for the development and implementation of regional Base Oil sourcing strategy within the Base Oil supply market segment.
- To develop and maintain deep relationships with business partners ensuring sourcing strategy supports local business strategy and vice versa.
- To develop and maintain the relationship with regional suppliers and local relationship with global suppliers.
- Handle the category across all 5 pillars of the procurement strategy aligned to business goals.
- Give to development of base oil strategy, plans and priorities.
- Course correct the category's evolving position based on the risk and opportunity using the procurement chessboard.
- Subject matter expert for Base Oil category and maintaining key partner connectivity.
- Track market developing an improvement plan to create more value from supply base interactions.
- Define and meet performance measures for the category, reflecting business requirements and market opportunities.
- Track levels of risk and provide management information on risk assessments and feedback to the Global Base Oil Director via agreed risk reporting mechanism.
- Own the full sourcing process to ensure delivery of business plans and category strategies in collaboration with business partners.
- Generate the supplier portfolio, select suppliers, and lead the supplier negotiation.
- Integrate suppliers through the implementation of new contracts, ensuring efficient change management.
- Maintain an outward focus on the supply base with pro-active, investigative supply market tracking and receptiveness to innovation and change instigated by suppliers.
- Support and drive OD&I activities to promote supply and specification developments in line with business needs and supplier capabilities.
- Ensure full compliance with all category, regulatory and BP corporate social, environmental and financial risk and HSE.
- Support provision of timely supply market knowledge to the business, relaying current and future impactful events and their potential consequences.
- Work collaboratively with the wider GSC and IST shipping to ensure no Base Oil stock outs at the plants occur.
- Support supplier management, including ongoing contract management and control, collation of performance data (through supervising supplier performance data collection and analysis), and plan and complete supplier meetings.
- Identify, select, and handle key suppliers for continuous improvement through rigorous cost and value analysis across circa $700m spend.
Requirements
- University degree and equivalent work experience, in an appropriate technical and commercial field.
- Direct raw material category experience in global businesses.
- Advanced sourcing methodologies and tools.
- Lubricants industry experience is an added advantage however open to FMCG/Commodities industries.
- Shown competence of working in multiple regions with cross functional partners.
- Shown expertise to Lead negotiations with strategic suppliers and deliver value to the business.
- Contract Negotiations and Management experiences.
- Senior partner management experiences.
- Supplier Relationship and Performance Management experiences.
- Shown Commercial competence.
- Sound Financial Management of the Category.
Benefits
- No travel is expected with this role
- This role is not eligible for relocation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
sourcing strategysupplier negotiationcontract managementrisk assessmentperformance measurementcost analysisvalue analysissupply market trackingcategory managementprocurement strategy
Soft Skills
relationship managementcollaborationcommunicationleadershipcross-functional teamworkproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingadaptabilitynegotiationcommercial competence