Assistant/ Procurement Manager Trading Background Preferred

• Strategically manage the assigned Commodity portfolio in operational procurement to support the mills globally, with focus on Indonesia /Malaysia mills • Lead a proactive, collaborative and communicative process to select, manage, establish strong partnerships and relationships with external counterparties and internal stakeholders. Ensure cost, quality, delivery, reliability and technical performance while achieving both tactical and strategic goals • Be well-versed in the life cycle of a commercial trade/ deal and must have prior hands-on experiences in most of these activities • Be commercially competent in being able to lead business development projects (e.g. acquisitions, joint ventures investments) where necessary to create long term value for the stakeholders • Be proficient in identifying, qualifying and establishing new vendors, striving to meet and exceed our customers' quality requirements for the assigned Commodity. • Be proficient in analyzing markets and knowing how to turn data into actionable market intelligence to execute better procurement strategies • Effective and efficient communicator to senior management and external counterparties from diverse global locations • Responsible to achieve assigned cost savings targets • Study and monitor the market conditions for making sound and timely purchasing decision • Take a global lead role in overseeing the assigned Commodity purchases across all mills to develop a commodity strategy which is in line with global strategy • Provide regular market updates to senior management • Any other ad-hoc activities as assigned by reporting manager