Senior Manager/Manager, Procurement

Overview

Manage procurement, vendor relationships, contracts, and risk for data centre projects.

Key Responsibilities

• vendor management
• risk assessment
• contract management
• rfp process
• procurement reporting
• compliance

Tasks

-Establish and maintain strong relationships with key vendors, focusing on quality, reliability, and innovation. -Assess supplier risk and develop mitigation plans to minimize operational disruptions. -Draft, review, and manage contracts with vendors, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and legal requirements. -Proactively follow up and close off work matters on time. -Provide regular updates and insights to senior leadership on procurement trends and opportunities. -Perform daily procurement activities such as RFP/RFQ, negotiating favorable commercial terms, and provide evaluation and recommendations. -Coordinate administrative matters with work requestors and vendors. -Performance Analysis, Procurement Reporting -Monitor contract performance and address any issues or disputes promptly. -Track and analyze procurement metrics to measure departmental performance. -Propose strategic procurement initiatives to drive cost and operational efficiency. -Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and industry standards related to procurement processes. -Identify opportunities to improve vendor performance and negotiate agreements to enhance value creation.

Requirements

• sap mm
• 5 years
• procurement
• negotiation
• degree
• data centre

What You Bring

-Strong knowledge of SAP MM (Materials Management). -Detail-oriented, analytical, and possesses excellent problem-solving abilities. Excellent team member, proactive in managing issues and possess sense of responsibility and ownership in his/her work and results. -Demonstrate good understanding of the market trends and purchase requirements in data center industry, and is able to source accurately and efficiently; -Capable of working independently with strong negotiation skills. -Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. -A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, preferably in a Procurement Department within the Construction, Data Centre, or Network industry. -Degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Quantity Surveying, Business, Engineering, or a related field.

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Benefits

-Training to junior members of the team and other stakeholders.

About Keppel Data Centres

-built to suit and colocation facilities. -offering hyperscale and cloud enterprise clients reliable power, cooling, physical security and seamless connectivity. -combining engineering precision with tailored design for blue‑chip, financial and government workloads. -Innovates beyond land‑based sites with a floating data centre concept to tackle land, water and energy constraints. -Led by a seasoned CTO and CEO duo, the company blends telecom-grade tech heritage with data centres expertise across APAC and Europe. -Typical projects include large-scale colocation campuses in Singapore, Sydney, Frankfurt and Dublin, often for hyperscale cloud giants. -Specialises in ICT infrastructure, cloud hosting, connectivity services and high‑availability digital ecosystem solutions.

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