Procurement Specialist, Ocean Freight

As a Procurement Specialist-Ocean Freight, you will play a key role in supporting Commodity and Category Managers through strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, supplier management, and business analysis. You will help strengthen procurement decisions by turning market, supplier, and financial data into actionable insights while ensuring the accuracy of critical sourcing and pricing information across MACOS/SAP. You will also collaborate with global stakeholders and suppliers to support cost efficiency, business continuity, and effective procurement operations.

Why This Role Matters

• Help shape sourcing decisions by providing bid analysis, market intelligence, financial insights, and first-pass sourcing recommendations.
• Support global Supplier Relationship Management and strengthen supplier performance, compliance, and business continuity.
• Maintain the integrity of pricing, supplier, and sourcing data across MACOS/SAP and regional systems.
• Provide insights that enable Commodity and Category Managers to identify cost, productivity, risk, and working capital opportunities.

What You'll Do

• Lead the end-to-end bid process, including source identification, RFIs, RFPs, bid evaluation, productivity assessments, and support for supplier negotiations.
• Own and maintain supplier master data, price information records, source plans, and related procurement data while ensuring contract compliance and data integrity.
• Deliver business and financial analysis covering cost projections, risk estimates, productivity, working capital, and clean-sheet analysis.
• Monitor commodity markets and provide insights on pricing, feedstocks, global manufacturers, technology trends, freight, duties, exchange rates, and competitive activity.
• Serve as a key point of contact for suppliers and drive corrective actions related to commodity strategies, supplier performance, business continuity, payment and invoice exceptions, and cost-of-quality recoveries.

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• 4-5 years of corporate experience, preferably within Procurement, Supply Chain, or a related operational function.
• Experience with SAP ERP, SRM, CRM, or a comparable enterprise system.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and drive process improvements.
• Experience in Ocean Freight, international logistics, supplier management, foreign Incoterms, and multinational organizations is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Willingness to work a Day Shift supporting APAC and report onsite twice a week in BGC, Taguig City.

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