Job Description

Duties and Responsibilites:

Sourcing and Purchasing
- Lead the sourcing and purchasing of the services and goods working with suppliers closely and working with the business stakeholders.
- Create, execute and complete the sourcing project using the Procurement system
- Ensure to purchase services and goods both from the existing and potential suppliers working with Regional Category Managers.

Contract Negotiation and Management
- Lead the creation, negotiation, renewal and termination of the contracts working with Legal team and using the procurement system.
- Responsible for submitting the contracts for signing internally and externally.
- Identify, develop and maintain appropriate template of agreement for each service.

Supplier/Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Establish and maintain the strong relationship with suppliers having a regular meeting, monitor the specific KPIs, analyzing spend and developing the strategies.
- Manage stakeholder relationship having a regular meeting, working closely daily basis and provide best-class in services.

Operation
- Support the development and implementation of process, methods and systems to enhance governance and service delivery to the business working with local stakeholders and global team.

Requirements and Qualifications:

Requisite Education and Experience
University graduate
10 Years+ work experience
5 Years+ of Procurement experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Excellent verbal and written communication skills both in English and Japanese
Advanced knowledge in procurement (methodologies of sourcing, supplier evaluation, saving potentials and best practice procedures)
Strong analytical skills
Ability to identify and solve complex problems
Good team player
Self motivated and result oriented personality
Cross-cultural understanding
Business acumen, analytical and process-minded
Basic skill/knowledge in MS Office

Nice to have
IT category especially for software resell knowledge and experience as Procurement buyer

Language Requirements:

Japanese: Native or Fluent

English: Business