EOI - Procurement Manager (Makati)

The role is diverse, challenging and provides a unique career and professional development opportunity for the incumbent. The Procurement manager fulfills a key role in the Property Management business as follows:

• Prepare annual procurement plans to meet business and account strategies.
• Strategically build a supplier list to support PM business requirements.
• Lead building local procurement governance and processes.
• Develop purchasing strategies, closely working with operational teams to reduce expenses, build service offerings, tailor scopes of requirements, and support tendering of services.
• Assist site manager to negotiate costs/fees, contract conditions and SLAs.
• Implementing best practice for both contracting and sourcing strategies and programs to increase operational efficiency and profitability.
• Manage supplier/contractor certification process including the review of requisite experience, legal and organizational structure, financial viability, geographic coverage, insurance requirements and other capabilities.
• Assist with the maintenance of a contracts database, and establish requirements for ensuring the integrity of the centralized sourcing database system.
• Manage the process of contract terminations, expirations, extensions, and renewals.
• Manage the supplier performance management and development program.
• Standardize contract forms for PM services contracts.
• Assist operational teams to ensure KPIs are regularly reviewed, and performance standards are met.
• Develop and manage relationships with suppliers and contractors and assist in contract negotiations.
• Support and participate in the tendering process and presentations.
• Contribute in the further development and input of CBRE benchmark database.
• Anticipate and leverage our APAC matrix organization to ensure consistency in approach across the region.

Client and Stakeholders Relationship Management

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with all members of Property Management without compromising independence and integrity of service delivery.
• Develop effective working relationships with Shared Services / Platform / National Leadership in order to leverage resources and to support corporate initiatives in compliance, training and risk management.
• Support business leaders in demonstrating Property Management business operations capability in new business opportunities.

Job Qualifications

• More than 10 years of relevant experience.
• At least 3 to 5 years in the property or facility procurement management industry.
• Ability to work independently and remain task focused.
• Superior attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Mature interpersonal skills demonstrating an ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills.
• Open to travel.
• Tertiary qualification in a property related discipline, accounting, compliance or law
• Master’s in business administration is a plus.
• Completion of intermediate to advance training in Microsoft packages particularly Word, Excel and Outlook, PowerPoint intermediate competency would be advantageous.
• Willing to work in Makati City.