Project Associate with Deep Procurement Experience (6-Months Only Role)

Responsibilities

• You will work as a core member of a procurement transformation team, partnering directly with client stakeholders to deliver initiatives across category strategy, cost savings, operating model redesign, procurement process improvement, and capability building.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree; Advanced graduate degree (e.g., MBA, PhD, etc.) or equivalent preferred.
• 3+ to 4 years of business management and/or business consulting experience in a reputed company. As this is a short-term role involving work on urgent projects, experience working in a top-tier management consulting firm is highly advantageous.
• As the project may involve working with representatives of our client's other offices in the Asia Pacific region, prior work experience in the Asia Pacific region is advantageous.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or delivering procurement transformation and cost savings initiatives, ideally in medical devices, electronics, healthcare equipment, or similarly engineered-product environments.
• Deep category expertise in several categories relevant to medical device manufacturing, such as Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), electronic components, semiconductors, plastic injection moulding, silicone or rubber moulding, tooling, contract manufacturing, and other engineered components.
• Strong understanding of procurement operating models, category strategy design, supplier segmentation, strategic sourcing, negotiations, source-to-pay processes, supplier performance management, and digital procurement.
• Strong practical experience in design-to-value, should-cost modelling, cost breakdown analysis, clean-sheet costing, cost benchmarking, and supplier cost reduction levers.
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders across procurement, engineering, product development, manufacturing, quality, finance, and supply chain.
• Ability to support procurement operating model and organization design work, including role and responsibility definition, governance design, capability assessment, process redesign, and performance management.
• Proven ability to build client capabilities through coaching, structured problem solving, analytical training, and hands-on support to client team members.
• Exceptional analytical and quantitati

Additional Information

This is a fixed-term role of 6months to support a time-critical client project with a leading global medical device manufacturer. The successful candidate is expected to hit the ground running from day one, bringing strong procurement transformation experience, deep category expertise, and the ability to work directly with client teams to deliver measurable impact. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work closely with our client and project leadership to help transform a global procurement function, unlock sustainable cost savings, and build the capabilities required to deliver lasting performance improvement.

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