Senior Technology Buyer

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.

QRT has been going through an exciting period of growth. We are now extending our Procurement team that is located in London and Hong Kong to support the continued development of services being delivered from a high-performance and trusted procurement function.

We are looking for a Procurement Analyst/Buyer based in Hong Kong to support our procurement operations in sourcing, purchasing, and managing deliveries of day-to-day procurement activities. In this role, you will be responsible for requesting and reviewing quotes from suppliers, placing orders through the company’s procurement system - Coupa, and managing the logistics of deliveries to APAC region or global locations. You will also be involved in ensuring that goods are properly receipted once received and that any invoice-related inquiries are resolved efficiently with the Accounts Payable team. The successful candidate should have strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Your future role within QRT

• Working for the local procurement manager in Hong Kong to execute day-to-day jobs as required
• Liaising with colleagues on their sourcing requirements and dealing with general procurement enquiries in APAC, including Software, Professional Services, Telecoms and Office fit-out procurement.
• Working with key suppliers requesting quotes, benchmarking costs and monitoring ETA’s ensuring timely deliveries within APAC region and global locations
• Establishing supplier relationships whenever required
• Negotiating contracts and working with our internal Legal team as required
• Identify cost savings and avoidance opportunities
• Raising and Receipting purchase orders and supporting end users raising purchase requests within our procurement portal - Coupa
• Liaising with finance as required
• Working with local procurement manager and London procurement team
• Managing DocuSign envelopes

Your present skillset

You will have good knowledge of the procurement process, with 3-5 years’ experience of procurement in a medium sized, fast paced and agile business:

• Experience of working in a small, high impact procurement team with the ability to take on procurement tasks within the full P2P process
• Ability to take on all tasks within the ‘Purchase-to-pay’ (P2P) lifecycle and work on your own as required
• Excellent understanding of IT and Professional Services procurement and other indirect categories is a bonus
• Understanding of procurement within the APAC region and the complexities faced there
• Excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills in Cantonese and English
• Good experience and understanding of legal and commercial aspects of contract negotiations, able to negotiate agreements with vendors.
• Diligent in managing workloads and priorities
• Desire to develop skills across all aspects of Procurement
• Use of corporate P2P systems, such as SAP, Coupa and eSignature systems, such as DocuSign
• Able to speak Mandarin

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.