Regional Procurement Business Partner - APAC

Location: Preferably Malaysia; otherwise APAC region

This Canadian-headquartered aerospace company is looking for you!

The Regional Procurement Business Partner - APAC is the primary link between Global Category Management and business operations across Asia-Pacific. The role deploys approved global category strategies regionally, builds trusted stakeholder relationships, supports supplier and agreement adoption, and brings regional demand, market intelligence, regulatory considerations and execution risks into global category decisions. The role works closely with the Global Category Excellence and Deployment Lead on deployment plans, playbooks, governance, KPIs and corrective actions, and with Global Category Leads on category roadmaps, sourcing initiatives, supplier transitions and regional requirements. The role owns regional stakeholder engagement, adoption and execution of approved strategies; Global Category Leads retain category-strategy ownership.

Key Responsibilities
Regional Strategy Deployment
-Develop and execute regional deployment plans aligned with approved global category strategies.
-Coordinate implementation of sourcing initiatives, supplier transitions, preferred-supplier programmes and long-term agreements.
-Monitor milestones, dependencies, risks and adoption, and escalate barriers requiring category or leadership decisions.

Strategic Business Partnership
-Serve as the primary procurement partner for assigned Training Centres and regional Operations stakeholders.
-Build trusted relationships, understand upcoming demand and connect business priorities to category and sourcing actions.
-Lead stakeholder engagement and change activities that support adoption and business continuity.

Collaboration with Global Category Management
-Partner with the Global Category Excellence and Deployment Lead to apply common playbooks, governance, KPI definitions and corrective-action discipline.
-Partner with Global Category Leads to translate approved category roadmaps into regional actions and provide evidence-based demand, market, supplier and regulatory insight.
-Provide execution feedback and lessons learned to improve category plans and deployment methods.

Supplier Governance and Compliance
-Drive use of approved suppliers, agreements and buying channels.
-Support supplier classification, rationalisation, consolidation and performance-improvement activity.
-Identify non-compliant or after-the-fact buying patterns and coordinate corrective action with stakeholders, Category Leads, Local Buyers and Sourcing Execution.

Key Performance Indicators
-Percentage of approved regional deployment milestones completed on time.
-Percentage of addressable regional spend aligned with approved category strategies.
-Preferred-supplier utilisation, contract compliance and long-term agreement coverage.
-Progress against supplier-classification and rationalisation milestones.
-Validated regional savings, value contribution and risk mitigation supported by the role.
-Stakeholder satisfaction and completion of agreed engagement cadence.
-Timeliness and quality of regional demand, market and supplier intelligence provided to Global Category Leads.
-Percentage of deployment, supplier and stakeholder corrective actions closed by due date.
-On-time and accurate regional KPI and governance reporting in partnership with the Global Category Excellence and Deployment Lead.

Key Competencies
-Business Partnership: Builds trusted relationships and connects procurement priorities with regional business requirements.
-Strategy Deployment: Translates approved global category strategies into practical regional execution.
-Commercial and Supplier Management: Understands sourcing, supplier performance, agreements and compliance.
-Communication and Influence: Influences without authority and communicates effectively across cultures and organisational levels.
-Data-Driven Insight: Uses demand, spend, supplier, KPI and risk data to support decisions and escalation.
-Change Leadership: Drives stakeholder adoption and resolves execution barriers.
-Mindset: Balances enterprise alignment with valid regional requirements.

Key Relationships
-Internal: Global Category Excellence and Deployment Lead as the primary operating partner for deployment; Global Category Leads; Training Centre and regional Operations leaders; Local Buyers; Sourcing Execution; Finance, Legal, Risk, Compliance and IT.
-External: Regional and global suppliers, service providers and industry partners as required.

Qualifications
-Bachelor degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations or a related field.
-Typically 7+ years of progressive experience in procurement, sourcing, category management, supplier management or business partnering.
-Demonstrated experience supporting multiple sites, business units or countries in a matrix organisation.
-Experience deploying sourcing or category strategies and leading stakeholder-facing change initiatives.
-Strong procurement, commercial, supplier-management, analytical and communication capabilities.
-Professional English required; additional regional languages are an asset.
-A recognised procurement, supply chain or commercial designation is an asset.

Are you ready to take on this impressive challenge? We look forward to meeting you!