Irene Sim
Singapore
Summary
Experienced with procurement analysis, supply chain management, and vendor relations. Utilizes strategic sourcing and contract negotiation to optimize procurement processes and drive cost savings. Strong understanding of market trends and supplier performance, ensuring effective procurement strategies.
Results-driven professional with proven track record of leadership excellence. Skilled in strategic planning, team collaboration, and driving projects to successful completion. Strong focus on fostering collaborative environment, ensuring adaptability, and delivering impactful outcomes. Known for effective communication, problem-solving acumen, and unwavering reliability in dynamic settings.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Supplier Management, APAC
Expereo Singapore Pte Ltd
05.2023 - Current
- Reduced order processing time with effective communication between suppliers and internal departments.
- Negotiated favorable contracts with vendors, achieving significant cost savings for the organization.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of supply activities into overall business operations.
- Established long-term partnerships with key suppliers, facilitating stable sources of essential goods at competitive prices over time.
- Improved supplier relationships through timely payment processing and open communication channels.
- Analyzed market trends to identify opportunities for cost reduction or product improvements within the supply chain scope.
- Managed and maintained accountability for equipment valued at more than $1mil.
- Trained junior staff members on best practices in supply chain management, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Coached, managed, tasked and assessed employees on company practices and processes.
- Created and enforced detailed organization processes to increase quality and service standards.
- Trained new staff on job duties, company policies, and safety procedures for rapid onboarding.
- Developed and maintained knowledgeable and productive team of employees.
- Negotiated contracts with outside providers and rates for facility leases to minimize costs to company.
- Identified team weak points and implemented corrective actions to resolve concerns.
- Led cross-functional teams to achieve company-wide goals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
- Assisted with new hire processing and existing training programs.
- Increased team productivity by streamlining communication and implementing effective project management strategies.
- Built high-performing teams by recruiting top talent and providing ongoing support through professional development programs.
- Championed change initiatives, successfully navigating teams through periods of transition while maintaining morale and engagement levels.
- Mentored junior staff members, helping them develop leadership skills and advance their careers within the organization.
- Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.
- Maintained team flexibility and embraced change to adapt within dynamic markets.
- Led team by answering complex customer questions and mentoring personnel one-on-one.
- Managed budgets and resources, ensuring optimal allocation towards achieving organizational objectives.
- Applied strong leadership talents and problem-solving skills to maintain team efficiency and organize workflows.
- Maintained overall safe work environment with employee training programs and enforcement of safety procedures.
- Evaluated staff performance and provided coaching to address inefficiencies.
- Created and managed project plans, timelines and budgets.
- Gathered, organized and input information into digital database.
- Travelling on a monthly basis to visit suppliers and attend industry events
Supplier Management Manager
Expereo Singapore Pte Ltd
11.2018 - 05.2023
- Managing complex suppliers and partners' contracts
- Managing relationship across APAC.
- Cost reduction of >30% on a yearly basis, together with Cost avoidance of up to EUR 100K on a yearly basis
- Review Procurement processes to effectively translate the strategic sourcing into action
- Establish and develop relationship and service level agreements with Service providers and partners
- Prepare strategic sourcing business cases, ROI models, supplier partner communications plans and contracting options
- Work closely with legal team and procurement stakeholders to develop and execute negotiation strategies that include most favorable options for pricing, process, service and quality
- Understanding Market situations to drive cost analysis and reduction.
- Own supplier relationship management, lead supplier rationalization and segmentation initiatives
- Understanding of Service level agreements of each partners/suppliers.
- Understanding different regulations in each different countries
- Support sales with commercial projects where additional services/solutions/or special commercial conditions from carriers/providers are required
- Product portfolio management
- Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
Business Support Specialist and Analyst
Signet Armorlite AMERA Pte Ltd
09.2016 - 11.2018
- Achievements:
- Within 6 months of service, I launched a new Demo Tool kit to serve all regions
- Within 1.5 years of service, I launched multiple websites for the region
- Within 2 years of service, I helped the company to launch products in East Africa
- To manage the sourcing of all non-lens products including RX products
- Liaise with vendor in China to source for peripherals products
- Liaise with customer in Middle East, Turkey, Africa, India and Russia for all products required by them and help in processing the orders
- Digital marketing campaigns for Singapore / Malaysia and Kenya
- Took part in marketing campaigns to launch different products
- Maintaining budgets to ensure that savings are maximised
- Handling worldwide vendors and ensuring that project timeline are met when it comes to launching of new products and new campaigns
- Negotiating of bulk purchase prices for the region
- Maintaining marketing budgets, liaising with media owners
- Maintaining and analysing sales budget and sales growth
- Organising travel schedules and meetings for Managing director
- Supporting Business development managers for Middle East, Turkey, Africa, India and Russia region on processing of orders and liaising with customers on issues
- Reason for leaving: >70% travelling time, no time for my kids
Assistant Procurement Manager
Vector-Infotech Pte Ltd
11.2015 - 09.2016
- Achievements: Within 6 months of service, I managed to secure a total US$200,000.00 savings for various projects and negotiated better payment terms / milestones
- To manage the sourcing of all project required products for the CCTV, Paging, Radio, Meteorological system, etc
- Maximise project cost savings through negotiations
- Standardising suppliers price list
- Negotiate project prices so that project able to have maximum savings
- Maintain suppliers database and ensure on-time deliveries and best supports from them
- Handle worldwide vendors
- Sourcing of products worldwide
- Establish / Managed teamwork within admin and expeditors
- Maintaining budgets to ensure that savings are maximised
- Ensure that price is at its best during bidding
- Liaise with proposal team on biddings
- Reason for leaving: I would like to move on to a different trade and to make use of what I have learnt to bring myself up to another level of career ladder
Assistant Outsourcing Manager, SEA
RS Components Pte Ltd
08.2010 - 11.2015
- To manage the sourcing of NCO (Non-Core Offer) products, through best in class sourcing practices, strong commercial effectiveness, and positive/collaborative working relationships with both external Vendors and key stakeholders internal to Electrocomponents
- Manage the sourcing of NCO articles to provide the required level of profitability and service to support
- Sourcing of chemicals, machineries, components based items
- Issue PR and PO to vendors using SAP
- Visit vendors and conduct audits based on vendor’s factory/office/production capabilities
- Fulfilment of our Sales and customer strategy
- Apply commercial acumen to determine appropriate response to NCO enquiries
- Create and maintain accurate NCO article data
- Drive improved and increased efficiency of our NCO processes through application of CI based approach
- Develop strong vendor relationships and manage stakeholders to ensure integration with the business area
- Where and when appropriate, drive Vendor delivery performance and resolve non conformance issues
- Enabling efficiency of Inbound Logistics processes
- Collaborate with relevant Sales & Market teams to interpret requirements and enable a profitable NCO
- Provide relevant insight, data, and input to the Purchasing & Supplier teams to enable and have a better relationship with Vendors
- Commercial opportunities across the core and non-core product range
- Identify and implement new Vendors to support NCO article sourcing needs
- Reason for leaving: Company relocated, closing Singapore Office and warehouse
Senior Procurement Officer
CSE-Transtel Pte Ltd
04.2008 - 08.2010
- Dealing with End user, suppliers from Asia, Middle East, Australia, Africa, America, Europe, etc
- Working with Bidding department to do tenders
- Arrange for suppliers to bid for tenders
- Arrange for suppliers to provide yearly special rates to meet project budgets
- Arrange to source overseas and locally to meet project requirements
- Liaising with engineers, project managers to work on project designs, technical specification to ensure correct purchase
- Liaising with overseas and local suppliers
- Negotiate prices with suppliers
- Planning of purchases to meet project datelines
- Purchasing Cisco Products for Project usage
- Liaising with Engineers on all FAT, IFAT, Buyoff and clearance of Punchlist requirements
- Arranging of payments to suppliers and liaising with finance on Accounts payable
- Verifying of invoices to make sure that invoices are valid versus purchases
- Dealing with both customers and suppliers
- Reason for leaving: To change a working environment and to have a better career prospect
Planner
Telford Industries Pte Ltd
09.2006 - 10.2008
- Using Syspro System to monitor Stock Balance
- Check Stocks and plan delivery
- Liaise with suppliers
- Liaise with Production to meet Customer required schedules
- Liaise with Customer (E.g
- NEC Semiconductors, NEC Electronics, Hewlett Packard, Silicon Image, etc) on their requirements on shipment schedules
- Planning of Material
- Plan Delivery schedules with logistics
- Liaising with Malaysia, Taiwan, China, Australia and Japanese customers
- Reason of Leaving: Change in management due to economic crisis
Space Planner
Vanguard Interiors Pte Ltd
07.2005 - 08.2006
- Using AutoCAD to draw
- Check Stocks and plan delivery
- Liaise with suppliers
- Reason of Leaving: To Pursue a more challenging and a fulfilling job which will allow me to learn more things
Material Planner
Siong Bee Industries Pte Ltd
05.2004 - 06.2005
- Planning of Raw Material & Delivery
- Liaising with production team on materials and production schedules
- Liaising with buyer to ensure correct purchases
- Liaising with Sales department on customers’ requirement
- Reason of Leaving: No career prospect
Education
Diploma - Maritime Studies
Institute of Supply Chain Management
04.2010
Diploma - Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
04.2004
Skills
- Team Work
- Team Management
- Procurement expertise
- Communication Skills
- Supply chain optimization
- Sourcing and negotiation skills
- Supplier negotiation
- Project Management
- Vendor relationship management
- Costing and Evaluating
- Global sourcing
- SAP
- Supplier relationship management
- ERP
- Strategic sourcing
- Project management
- Salesforce
- Team direction
- ISO Knowledge
- Export Compliance knowledge
- Google Analytics
- Microsoft office
Accomplishments
- Achieved savings of ~USD400K in a year due to active renewal of existing services.
- Launched multiple websites for the region within 1.5 years.
- Helped the company to launch products in East Africa within 2 years.
- Launched a new Demo Tool kit to serve all regions within 6 months.
- Achieved an overall savings of USD 200,000 over a period of 6 months in Vector Infotech Pte Ltd.
- Promoted to Senior Procurement Officer in CSE Transtel within a year of service.
- Rolled out SharePoint site within 2 weeks to allow the Sales Team to key in sourcing enquiries and to get real-time updates.
- Sourced for a wider range of products and increased the range of products by 15%.
- Created flow-charts and training materials to aid and ease the process of training new joiners.
- Negotiated with vendors to do brand consolidation to increase corporate account sales by 10% - 15% monthly.
- Helped Management to lift the embargo of export sales by implementing workflows for APAC regions.
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Thai
Beginner (A1)
Timeline
Head of Supplier Management, APAC
Expereo Singapore Pte Ltd
05.2023 - Current
Supplier Management Manager
Expereo Singapore Pte Ltd
11.2018 - 05.2023
Business Support Specialist and Analyst
Signet Armorlite AMERA Pte Ltd
09.2016 - 11.2018
Assistant Procurement Manager
Vector-Infotech Pte Ltd
11.2015 - 09.2016
Assistant Outsourcing Manager, SEA
RS Components Pte Ltd
08.2010 - 11.2015
Senior Procurement Officer
CSE-Transtel Pte Ltd
04.2008 - 08.2010
Planner
Telford Industries Pte Ltd
09.2006 - 10.2008
Space Planner
Vanguard Interiors Pte Ltd
07.2005 - 08.2006
Material Planner
Siong Bee Industries Pte Ltd
05.2004 - 06.2005
Diploma - Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Diploma - Maritime Studies
Institute of Supply Chain Management