Vice President, Procurement

Shangri-La Group

Headquartered in Hong Kong SAR, the Shangri-La Group has grown from a single hotel business to a diverse and integrated global portfolio comprising quality real estate and investment properties, wellness and lifestyle facilities. Today, the Group owns, operates and manages 100+ hotels under our family of four brands: Shangri-La, Kerry Hotels, JEN by Shangri-La, and Traders.

We are part of the Kuok Group, one of Asia's most dynamic multinational conglomerates and a leader in properties, logistics, agribusiness, maritime and hospitality. From our strong base in Asia, we have expanded into key gateway cities and markets around the world. Our properties sit on some of the world’s most prestigious addresses and exotic destinations. Through the environments we have created, we enable people to come together to live, work, play, eat, and rest well.

We are now looking for a Vice President, Procurement who plays an integral part in the developing and driving the group-wide procurement strategies.

As our Vice President, Procurement, we will rely you to:

• Develop the procurement strategy for the Group in achieving cost efficiency
• Balance management strategies for cost containment with product quality, logistics and customer requirements
• Identify and realize the cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities
• Maintain systematic, analytical and results-based method for monitoring supplier’s performance
• Create and improve best-practice based processes.
• Improve existing management of procurement systems by applying e-commerce strategy.
• Manage procurement staff in (and across) sourcing, contracting, transactional purchasing, supplier management, and miscellaneous internal procurement support activities.
  

We are looking for someone who is/ has:

• Bachelor degree in Supply Chain or equivalent
• Minimum of 15 years of procurement with solid management experience in MNCs.
• Deep expertise in Supply Chain Management and strong familiarization with various supply chain operation processes.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to collaborate, negotiate, think strategically, make decisions.
• Ability to work at both strategic level & execute tactically as required.
• Good command of Chinese and English both in written and verbally.
• Work in agile, fast-paced environment and highly collaborative.