Regional Category Head, Marketing Procurement

Posted 19 Days Ago
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Petaling Jaya, Petaling, Selangor
Expert/Leader
Food • Transportation • Financial Services
The Role
The Regional Category Head, Marketing Procurement will lead procurement solutions for the marketing category, develop strategies, conduct data analysis, foster stakeholder relationships, and manage supplier processes while ensuring compliance and optimization of marketing expenditures.
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Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

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Get to Know the Role 

We are looking for a Regional Category Head, Marketing Procurement to help lead the Marketing category in Grab. Reporting to the Head of Procurement we are looking for a successful candidate with Heart and Honour to wield solid procurement fundamentals into effective practice; has Humility to unlearn and relearn; has Hunger to bring innovation and fresh thinking to the category. If you believe you have what it takes then we'd love to hear from you!

This role will be onsite and based in the PJ Office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

Category Leadership and Value Creation Drive

  • Lead with vision, shaping and driving procurement solutions for the Marketing category.
  • Assess opportunities, shape, develop, and execute Category and Sourcing Strategies for Marketing across Media, Agencies, Production and Materials.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in data analysis and ability to harness data intelligence to derive category insights and opportunities.
  • Lead the development and socialising of business cases and cost/benefit analyses to support bottomline optimization, process efficiency opportunities and champion right governance and controls across marketing spends.
  • Collaborate and inspire senior stakeholders and peers driving strategic decisions with conviction.

Stakeholder Management and Business Partnering

  • Be the bridge that connects various business stakeholders, understanding unique needs and requirements into common threads of opportunities.
  • Foster relationships, built on trust and mutual respect, and ensure a seamless flow of information. Thoughtful foresight on business needs and proactively address opportunities
  • Lead efforts to rationalise the Marketing supply base, develop and maintain a preferred roster of suppliers, negotiating costs, and driving best-in-class SLAs.
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams (Legal, Cybersecurity, Compliance, Finance) managing Supplier lifecycle.
  • Guide internal procurement teams to delivering end-to-end procurement projects and solutions

Procurement Discipline Mastery

  • Own the supplier management process from Sourcing, Bid Management, Contracting, and Supplier Relationship Management for Marketing category
  • Drafting, improving and driving best possible outcomes in Commercial Contracting
  • Demonstrate strong proficiency in leading complex and/or high value regional strategic sourcing, or provide guidance to direct report or local marketing procurement practitioner peers
  • Drive Procurement Strategies in identifying, sizing and implementing Value Creation Initiatives relevant to Marketing Category

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

  • Education: Degree in Business Management, Marketing, Finance, or a relevant field.
  • Experience: 12 or more years of experience in multiple subcategories (Media, Agencies, Production, Collaterals).
  • Cross-Functional and Cross-Cultural Competency: Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and navigate cross-cultural environments.
  • Core Values: Embodying Heart, Hunger, Honour, and Humility.
  • Integrity: Absolute integrity in managing supplier relationships.
  • Communication and Leadership: Excellent collaboration with all organisational levels and external partners; able to lead or participate in cross-functional teams.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

  • We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
  • With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
  • Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
  • We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
  • Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

The Company
10,000 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, offering a suite of services consisting of deliveries, mobility, financial services, enterprise and others. Grabbers come from all over the world, and we are united by a common mission: to drive Southeast Asia forward by creating economic empowerment for everyone.

At Grab, every Grabber is guided by The Grab Way, which explains our mission and the operating principles on how we can achieve it together. We call these principles the 4Hs:

Heart
We work together as OneGrab to serve communities in Southeast Asia

Hunger
We work to understand ground truths and drive improvements, big and small

Honour
We keep our word and steward our resources wisely to build and sustain trust

Humility
We are a constant work-in-progress, and we never stop learning to get better

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