About This Role
This role offers an opportunity for an experienced Strategic Sourcing Specialist to manage complex procurement and strategic sourcing activities within a major higher education institution. You will take ownership of sourcing initiatives from planning through to contract award and implementation, with a particular focus on IT contract renewals, competitive tenders, and high-value procurement projects. The position requires strong commercial judgment and structured procurement capability.
Responsibilities
- Manage IT contract renewals in accordance with University procurement policies, governance requirements, and established processes
- Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing and competitive procurement activities, including sourcing strategy, market engagement, tender management, evaluation, negotiation, contract award, and implementation
- Deliver complex and high-value tenders and sourcing projects within agreed timeframes and budgets, ensuring procurement outcomes support broader strategic and commercial objectives
- Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders across faculties and divisions, providing expert procurement advice and influencing support for sourcing strategies and procurement objectives
- Manage relationships and negotiations with external suppliers and service providers, supporting effective contract outcomes, commercial value, and ongoing supplier performance
- Establish and facilitate tender and evaluation panels, ensuring procurement decisions are structured, transparent, and aligned with relevant governance requirements
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in strategic sourcing and procurement, with a successful track record managing large, complex, or organization-wide procurement activities through the full sourcing lifecycle
- Strong experience across competitive tendering, sourcing, contract management, and stakeholder management, ideally gained within a commercial, corporate, or similarly complex organizational environment
- Proven ability to manage procurement initiatives through implementation and change, with strong planning and organizational capability across competing priorities and deadlines
- Highly developed relationship management, influencing, and negotiation skills, with the confidence to engage senior internal stakeholders, evaluation panels, suppliers, and external service providers
- Strong analytical, evaluation, and research capability, with demonstrated ability to quickly understand new categories or commercial requirements and identify innovative solutions, efficiencies, and cost-saving opportunities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to develop clear procurement documentation, communicate effectively with different audiences, and deliver engaging stakeholder presentations
- Applicants must be a Malaysian Citizen or hold a valid Malaysian Residence Pass-Talent (RP-T)
