Roles & Responsibilities
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Category Manager to join our Asia Procurement team, focusing primarily on Real Estate & Facility Management developing and implementing category strategies, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring the efficient procurement of facility management services. This role requires a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills and the ability to drive cost savings and operational efficiencies. Experience leading and coaching Local country procurement teams in a matrix organization will be a plus.
Position Responsibilities :
IFM – Integrated Facility Management
Monitoring and governing IFM vendor to realize negotiated benefits on labour and third-party spend
Managing third-party vendor spend and ensuring that proper procurement processes are followed to achieve total savings negotiated across all relevant contracts
Ensuring all data is accurately documented, reported, and aligned with Manulife's savings methodology
Transaction Management
Monitoring negotiation performance form preferred vendor on our new lease negotiations to ensure expected savings on the total new lease spend are realized
Developing necessary reporting capability with the vendor account manager, Asia CRE, and Finance to help report accrued savings not yet captured
Required Qualifications :
When you join our team :
Tell employers what skills you have
Negotiation
Coaching
Vendor Relationships
Management Skills
Analytical Skills
procurement processes
procurement tools
Contract Management
Relationship Management
Lease Negotiations
Market Analysis
Procurement
Transaction Management
end to end procurement
procurement tenders
Supply Chain Management
Wellbeing
Benchmarking
Stakeholder Management
Sourcing
Procurement Manager • D01 Cecil, Marina, People’s Park, Raffles Place, SG