Procurement Manager, Asia

Primary DetailsTime Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Procurement Manager

The opportunity:

• As a cross-functional role, this role reports to the Senior Manager of Operational Risk, Resilience & Procurement, with the goal to be a trusted commercial business partner that enables QBE to obtain and sustain the most value through our supply models and relationships for claims procurement.
• This role will be responsible for the end-to-end Procurement process and will take full responsibility for all claims suppliers and supply chains to ensure it meets QBE’s business and customer needs.

Your new role:

• Develop and implement category strategies including stakeholders’ engagement of Claims business units.
• Builds robust relationships with stakeholders and ensures that business objectives and requirements are at the core of procurement strategies.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with business unit representatives to collaboratively drive benefits.
• Apply stakeholder influencing and convincing skill to ensure the best outcome for QBE.
• Application of stakeholder influencing and convincing skill to ensure the best outcome for QBE (cross functional)
• Create category plan, strategy, and program to deliver cost optimisation and service enhancements to the Claims team.
• Manage/Support end to end sourcing process.
• Provide subject matter expertise and advice in the selection of appropriate methodologies, tools, and technologies.
• Contribute actively to the selection of qualitative suppliers, define KPIs, evaluate supplier performance and compliance to policy.
• Manage end to end contracting process for all Claims contracts.
• Negotiate changes to contracts with suppliers in accordance with QBE risk and compliance requirements and procurement policy and ensures contracts support QBE category and business objectives.
• Ensure compliance of Procurement policy and procedures.
• Drive the improvement of supplier performance through proactively managing relationships, measure performance against contractual requirements, service standards and adherence to commercial provision.
• Manage the usage of Claims Provider Portal and identify opportunity for enhancement.
• Translate business requirements into tender documentation and contractual KPI’s and SLA’s.
• Develop supplier performance/relationship management framework with Claims Managers.
• Actively draw together all relevant information and insights (via internal dashboard or external data) to deliver commercial outcomes to QBE
• Demonstrate the value of data driven decision making to the business
• Builds robust relationships with stakeholders and ensures that business objectives and requirements are at the core of category strategies.

About you:

• Minimum 8 years of experience in Procurement function within Financial Services (preferably in Insurance)
• A degree holder
• Strong analytical, negotiation and stakeholders’ management skills
• Excellent communication skills with all levels of organization and suppliers
• Fluent in both spoken and written English
• Required to work unsupervised with a high degree of independence of action.
• Able to identify opportunities to work collaboratively with other teams/units to resolve issues and develop best solutions
• Proficient in Excel (e.g. use of Pivot table), PowerPoint and other analytical tools

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Communication, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Negotiation, Process Improvements, Procurement, Purchasing Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Vendor Management

How to Apply:

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.