Asendia empowers businesses to grow across borders with a range of international e-commerce and mail delivery services. Launched in 2012 by La Poste and Swiss Post, Asendia has the combined expertise of over 1500 employees across 4 continents. With operations across the world, we bring together a wealth of international and local expertise, and a network that delivers to over 200 countries and territories. Asendia’s heritage as a mail business is unrivalled, but today we are also at the forefront in providing e-commerce parcel solutions for e-tailers selling internationally. We provide a number of value-added services too, including returns, fulfilment and lettersshops, and we have acquired a number of companies to enhance our services, including eShopWorld a global e-commerce software business.
Asendia is committed to providing equal opportunities. In accordance with the applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances, all qualified applicants will receive fair consideration for employment without regard to age, race, gender, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status and family responsibilities, disability, or any other protected characteristics.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR........
Enterprise Procurement Associate APAC
Role Purpose
We are seeking a Enterprise Procurement Associate APAC to join our Regional Operations team in Singapore. Reporting to Chief Operations Officer APAC, you will predominantly be responsible for manage and support the day-to-day logistics sourcing, RFQ, Total Cost to Serve, contract negotiation and completion processes. You will work closely in supplier relationship management, project implementation, process improvement, workflow management and prioritizing process to meet business objectives.
Your Tasks
- Identify and design logistics sourcing practices to support existing and future clients.
- Drive global sourcing processes to achieve high performing partnerships, focusing on reducing costs while maintaining quality and scalability.
- Work closely with partners and prospective partners to build global relationships.
- Continuously review and evaluate existing logistic services to existing clients to ensure that it meets and exceeds Service Level Agreements.
- Support TCTS (Total Cost to Serve) program to reduce logistic cost and tier impact on profitability by retailer and country.
- Influence and negotiate with other parts of the business to adopt and support its recommendations.
- Manage and formulate an approach to carrier management and supplier selection to support contracting deliverables, deadlines, and contract terms.
- Conduct projects, including defining requirements (in partnership with key stakeholders), RFQ development, supplier evaluation, negotiation, and selection.
- Lead and moderate the contractual discussions between relevant stakeholders, both internal and external.
- Maintain global logistics and eCommerce industry knowledge of supply market, emerging players, cost and service trends, and other industry driving forces.
- Develop a global network strategy to meet current and future business needs.
- Work in collaboration with various business teams including Sales, Operations, Client, Finance
Your Profile
A. Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Logistics or related disciplines, with significant experience in Airfreight and final mile solutions.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced eCommerce business is highly desirable.
- Strong project management skills and excellent operational organisation skills.
- Strong analytical skills with a solution-focused attitude.
- Strong and upbeat, possessing vital influencing skill with the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, manage cross-functional teams and drive change management and continuous improvement efforts.
- Working knowledge of supply management and related systems, with previous experience of Supply Chain Optimisation software highly desirable.
B. Core Competencies
i. Driving Success
- Generates results that allow Asendia to be commercially competitive
- Demonstrates awareness of competitors and market developments
ii. Communicating Information
- Argues own case convincingly
- Tailors message to the audience
iii. Adjusting to Change
- Pivots and refocuses on deliverables in the face of setbacks
- Translates ambiguity to action
Our Facts
Our Vision: We empower our customers worldwide with seamless access to global markets through our innovative and sustainable cross-border e-commerce logistics solutions.
Our Values: Deliver for our customers, Strive for excellence, Collaborate as one team.
Our APAC Core Competencies: Driving success, Communicating information, and Adjusting to change are essential competencies that drive our strategy in APAC.
Employees wellbeing and corporate social responsibility are at the heart of our core values. We wish to instil a strong culture of corporate social responsibility within every employee and hope to create a positive and productive environment where employees can thrive.
If this sounds like the kind of place you would like to work and the sort of role you are looking for, then get in touch, we are waiting to hear from you.
Please send your application in English to: apac.recruitment@asendia.com
reference number “EPA_042026_ASAP”.
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