Category Manager

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🕒 July 14

🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Manila Recruitment

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Manila Recruitment is a leading recruitment agency based in the Philippines, specializing in innovative talent sourcing and headhunting services. The agency provides a wide range of recruitment solutions including executive search, IT recruitment, offshore staffing solutions, remote staffing, and more. With a focus on understanding clients' strategic business objectives, Manila Recruitment offers tailored recruitment strategies for multinationals, corporations, and start-ups entering the Filipino market. The firm prides itself on a process-driven approach, offering comprehensive candidate guarantees and a database of over 250,000 candidates. Certified headhunters at Manila Recruitment are dedicated to passive candidate sourcing, ensuring quality hires that align with company culture and requirements.

📋 Description

• Manage procurement activities and supplier relationships for assigned local categories in the Philippines. • Develop and implement sourcing strategies that drive cost savings, strengthen supplier partnerships, and support regional procurement objectives. • Identify, evaluate, source, and onboard new suppliers. • Lead supplier negotiations, commercial discussions, competitive tender processes, pricing reviews, and contract renewals. • Negotiate, execute, and manage supplier contracts while ensuring compliance with procurement policies and standards. • Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships and manage supplier performance against agreed requirements. • Drive cost reduction and cost avoidance initiatives aligned with regional and local business strategies. • Develop contingency plans and manage procurement risks to ensure continuity of supply. • Handle procurement-related supply chain escalations, including product shortages, supply disruptions, and supplier issues. • Work closely with the Southeast Asia Supply Chain team on forecasting, inventory planning, issue resolution, and implementation of agreed commercial terms. • Coordinate with the Distribution Partner to support product availability and distribution requirements. • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support product development, new product launches, and commercialization initiatives. • Present product recommendations, pricing proposals, and sourcing solutions to key business stakeholders. • Prepare and communicate product, pricing, and supply updates to relevant stakeholders. • Collect supplier documentation and commercial information required for supplier onboarding and product setup. • Maintain procurement and commercial information within internal systems and coordinate with the Master Data team to ensure accurate supplier and product records. • Conduct supplier visits, facility assessments, and market visits to evaluate supplier capabilities, strengthen supplier relationships, and identify sourcing opportunities. • Monitor market trends, supplier capabilities, pricing movements, and sourcing opportunities to support procurement decisions. • Work closely with regional Procurement, Supply Chain, Commercialisation, Finance, Data, and Legal teams to implement procurement initiatives and business priorities. • Perform other procurement and supply chain responsibilities necessary to support business operations and strategic sourcing objectives.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field. • Minimum of five (5) years of relevant procurement experience working with local suppliers within the Food & Beverage industry Experience in either: Quick Service Restaurant (QSR)/Restaurant, or Food Manufacturing. • Strong knowledge and experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier development, and supplier relationship management. • Demonstrated experience independently leading supplier negotiations, commercial discussions, and competitive tender processes. • Strong understanding of procurement processes, contract management, and procurement compliance. • Sound supply chain knowledge. • Supply chain forecasting experience is preferred but not required.