Regional Category Manager

Regional Category Manager, Stores - Singapore

Set course for a high-impact career at the leading global supplier of maritime provisions and stores. As our Regional Category Manager, technical stores, in the dynamic world of Ship Supply, you'll be steering strategic sourcing initiatives and spearheading supplier partnerships in Singapore. From supplying vessels with essential goods to optimizing regional supply chains, this role offers the perfect blend of hands-on execution, strategic thinking, and international collaboration in a global organization. If you're ready for a career journey where precision, mindset, and agility are crucial factors to be successful, we want you on board.

As Regional Category Manager Technical Stores, you will be at the forefront of shaping our vendor landscape and driving strategic procurement decisions within critical technical categories. You'll lead procurement initiatives aimed at optimizing total cost of ownership by evaluating key factors such as pricing, quality, assortment, availability, and logistics, ensuring Wrist remains a competitive force in the global ship supply industry. Leveraging your strong procurement background and deep category expertiseparticularly in technical stores like safety gear, protective equipment, and tools, you'll harness data insights to refine global and regional assortments. Your experience managing complex, end-to-end tender processes through e-sourcing platforms positions you to deliver real impact and strengthen our Procurement performance across the region. Further, you will collaborate closely with our other regional procurement teams and our global team to build and implement efficient sourcing strategies, ensuring the most competitive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Wrist and our customers.

Become a part of our Procurement Team in Singapore.

Join our dynamic regional procurement team based in Singapore, headed by our Regional Procurement Director, Asia. You will join our skilled Regional Category Managers within Provisions and Stores. During the initial months, you will benefit from a comprehensive onboarding process designed to ensure a smooth transition into your new role and set you up for success.

In this role, you will take ownership of optimizing regional procurement spend in close collaboration with the global procurement team and cross-functional departments in our Singapore branch. You will lead strategic sourcing initiatives, develop and refine procurement Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and conduct in-depth analysis of purchasing behaviors to uncover opportunities for value creation. Your core focus areas include Strategic Sourcing, Category Managementfrom strategy development to deploymentand the optimization of the vendor base and broader supply chain across your categories. Your contributions will be key to elevating procurement performance and ensuring alignment with both regional and global priorities.

Key responsibilities:

• Execute the procurement strategy with a strong focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), translating strategic goals into measurable savings
• Develop and implement category strategies for Technical Stores in close collaboration with global and regional category managers across the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East
• Lead strategic tender processesend-to-endincluding supplier identification, baseline analysis, tender preparation and facilitation, quote evaluation, award scenario modeling, contract negotiation, and final selection
• Build and maintain strong, value-driven relationships with both existing and new suppliers, ensuring best-in-class supplier performance management
• Drive and oversee the execution and implementationof category optimization initiatives, acting as a key project lead and individual contributor
• Build and maintain a high-performing product assortment tailored to customer needs, while ensuring a competitive landed cost price, appropriate quality level, and market availability
• Monitor performance through continuous KPI tracking and structured management reporting.
• Collaborate proactively with regional and global procurement teams to enhance efficiency, drive scalability, and promote knowledge-sharing and procurement best practices.

Personality matters

You embody our core values of a Winning Attitude, Customer Orientation, and Getting it Done. As an individual, you're someone others can rely on, demonstrating a strong business acumen. You excel at expressing ideas clearly and place a high value on teamwork, ensuring efficiency in planning and execution of tasks. Your attentive listening skills contribute to building strong relationships, both within our team and with people outside the company.

What we're looking for:

You preferably hold a bachelor's degree or higher in business, engineering, or a related field, and bring 5+ years of proven experience in technical stores procurement and strategic sourcing. You are passionate about driving value and continuous improvement, with a hands-on approach to developing initiatives and delivering results. With a strong analytical mindset and solid experience in e-sourcing, you thrive in a data-driven environment and are confident navigating complex procurement landscapes.

Your expertise includes vendor consolidation, cost-saving initiative execution, stakeholder management, and a working knowledge of inventory management. You are a natural communicator with the ability to engage stakeholders across functions and geographies

Key qualifications:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Skilled in navigating ERP systems and understanding end-to-end business processes
• Strong negotiation skills and commercial business acumen
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken. Chinese Mandarin proficiency is a plus
• Robust project management skills, from planning to execution
• Strong problem-solving mindset, able to prioritize issues and implement solutions effectively in cross-functional settings

KPIs for this role:

• Achieve cost of goods sold (COGS) savings
• Improve trade/gross profit margins
• Optimize vendor portfolio through spend consolidation and vendor reduction
• Lead development and execution of the core assortment strategy
• Drive process and productivity improvements across Global procurement operations

We offer more than just a job

We want to be the best at what we do, and everything we do is based on our values of Winning Attitude, Customer Orientation, and Getting it Done.

We offer WFH and attractive employee benefits.

Do you want to be part of Wrist

Please send your application, mark as subject: CV-RCM to [Confidential Information]

Your application should reach us no later than 23 May 2025. We will be interviewing candidates on an ongoing basis, so do not wait with your application.

About Wrist

Wrist is the world's leading ship and offshore supplier of marine provisions and stores with a market share of approximately 12%. We are the only provisions and stores marine supplier with a global network of supply operations. We also offer services within owners goods and spare parts logistics, combining provisions and stores deliveries directly to the vessels.

With the launch of the digital marketplace, Source2Sea, Wrist is leading the digital transformation of the marine supply industry. All year round, we offer 24/7 global online sourcing and logistics, providing data transparency, automation, and convenience to our customers.

We continuously work on reducing our climate impact while at the same time proactively addressing our customers growing demand and need for responsible solutions and services.

From more than 30 locations worldwide, in all major shipping locations, 1,800 Wrist employees take pride in making it easy for our customers to order and receive marine supplies and services.

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