Campus Contracts Manager Singapore Singapore Singapore

Job description

Creates, maintains, and executes on multi-year sourcing strategy for several complex projects and/or purchasing opportunities, optimizing costs and ensuring continuity of supply and/or services. Integrates business specifications into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes, manages supplier evaluation frameworks, and partners with suppliers to drive innovation and improvement. Leads contract and price negotiation activities and ensures alignment with cross-functional engagements. Applies end-to-end understanding of procurement processes to drive business impact and leads decision-making around workstream processes. Ensures adherence to policy and collaborates with senior stakeholders to drive consistency across supply chain requests. Routes original Purchase Orders and supervises procurement execution while ensuring procedural compliance. Monitors the impact of complex change orders and drives supplier and contractor performance management. Develops negotiation strategies and facilitates early business engagements with cross-functional leadership. Manages supplier activity and trains external stakeholders to improve supplier performance.Sourcing Creates, maintains, and executes on procurement contracting strategies for multiple complex data center construction projects and/or purchasing opportunities to ensure optimal cost and sufficient continuity of supply and services. Works across functionally with senior stakeholders and consults with other industry experts to inform strategy with a global view. Leverages end-to-end sourcing and procurement expertise, market intelligence and benchmark data to identify, revise, and influence the definition of business requirements, manage conflicting priorities and tradeoffs, and resolve escalations to execute on contracting strategies and solutions. Integrates business specifications and contracting strategies for several complex purchasing areas into request for information (RFI) and/or request for proposal (RFP) processes. Collaborates cross-functionally to define and manage supplier scorecard criteria (e.g., key performance indicators [KPIs], Service Level Agreements [SLAs]), coordinates supplier performance/recovery reviews, and drives corrective actions. Actively partners with strategic sourcing team and suppliers to identify and drive continuous improvement and risk management opportunities by evaluating procedural, operational, and/or environmental factors, analyzing root causes of issues, sharing insights with key stakeholders, and influencing the adoption of needed improvements. Leads decision making around the execution and evolution of various workstream processes, identifies and seeks solutions to compliance areas/gaps, and influences leadership to drive change internally and/or externally. Ensures adherence to policy, educates stakeholders and suppliers on policy compliance, and drives the remediation and resolution of sourcing issues. Influences current and future policy direction as needed to mitigate risks across business units and enable suppliers to meet business requirements. Collaborates with senior Procurement stakeholders to ensure awareness of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and/or defined milestones and deliverables, and to drive timeliness, accuracy, quality, and consistency across supply chain requests. Serves as subject matter expert on the SLA, milestones, and/or deliverables, and manages any escalations related to policy non-compliance. Leverages data to anticipate and mitigate risk and negative business impacts by ensuring compliance with agreed-upon terms, communicating delay potential to stakeholders, and driving the execution of contingency plans cross-functionally and/or cross-regionally as needed. Processes or supports stakeholder procurement requests for complex purchasing categories via engagement and/or leveraging workflow process or technology, where applicable in support of product and service requirements. Manages the resolution of escalated pricing issues raised. Executes contracts and complies with established control processes to ensure delivery and execution on contracts in alignment with business requirements. Facilitates industry and ecosystem engagements, and provides expert consultation with leadership teams on sourcing decisions and optimizations that can be deployed at scale. Manages supplier activity and progress across multiple accounts and complex purchasing categories, developing and executing supplier account plans detailing mutual priorities and focus for the supplier relationship for the upcoming period. Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Management, Supply Chain or related field and 10+ years experience in Construction Project Management, Supply Chain, and Operations Extensive experience in sourcing, procurement and contract execution management on large complex Construction and Capital Projects is an essential requirement for this role. Strong commercial understanding and experience negotiation with General Civil Contractor/ Trade Contractor and similar. Knowledge of data center industry, and / or mission critical experience and experience managing a variety of project delivery methods - ability to collaborate with a project team in defining risk and developing the appropriate contracting and compensation approaches Knowledge of at least two of the following industry template and standards are preferred: FIDIC (Fédération Internationale Des Ingénieurs-Conseils) contract forms AIA (The American Institute of Architects) contract forms CSI (Construction Specification Institute) AACEI (Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering) SCEA (Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis) RICS (The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: