Industry: Hospitality & Leisure
Specialism: F&B / Hospitality and Tourism - Hospitality / Hotel Services
ClosedOur client is the world’s largest hotel company, encompasses a portfolio of more than 7,200 properties in 30 leading hotel brands spanning 134 countries. This position will be based in Tokyo, Japan.
- The individual tasks are identifying and tapping into direct supply channels from domestic and regional markets to manage the supply chain life cycle from sourcing, negotiation, contract management, supplier performance management, risk management, category management and fulfilment as delegated by the hotels GM, area director of finance and area Procurement Director.
- Responsibilities include:
- 1) Execute all related cluster commercial sourcing & negotiation activities; and drive continuous performance improvements on quality and total cost performance.
- 2) Provides Procurement support to the business in the budgeting process for Singapore hotels cluster.
- 3) Provide advice and guidance to hotels on market sources, intelligence and trends.
- 4) Plan and set respective procurement cluster yearly Management Business Objectives (MBO).
- 5) Designs effective financial models for tender documentation, post tender analysis, logistics costs and other cost/volume modelling as required
- 6) Collates periodical supplier performance management feedback.
- 7) Individual stakeholder and vendor relationship management. Visit suppliers, stakeholders and sites as required.
- 8) Undertakes supplier negotiations within delegation across multiple categories.
- 9) Prepare a detailed assessment of returned quotations to ensure compliance, likeness with alternatives and make recommendation.
- 10) Assist in the development of and apply best practice systems for the supply chain including freight forwarding, shipping, warehousing, courier management, inventory management, reporting, shipment tracking visibility and KPls.
- 11) Negotiate contracts on local level and inform hotels about new contracts.
- Degree/Diploma in purchasing business studies or with commerce background.
- Strong knowledge of hotel market in Japan
- Proven communication skills and self-driven.
- Proficient in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint).
- At least 5 years of procurement experience across multiple categories of spend in the hospitality industry.
- Flexible and willing to travel for business (up to 20% of total time).
- Transport reimbursement