Dennis Goh
Procurement Professional
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About
Highly self-motivated, energetic and experienced Procurement Specialist with 17 years’ direct experience in managing Categories, Supplier Management & Performance Tracking, Price & Contract Negotiations. Excellent interpersonal skills with high Emotional Intelligence and Empathy Listening in managing different stakeholders. Collaborative style of leadership, Positive & Open Mindset focused with a People oriented ability to overcome challenges, difficult conversations and lead team members.
Meticulous, Analytical, Strong Accountability with Strategic and Results oriented mentality, focused on creating cost savings levers impacting financial performance.
Experience
Category Manager
ResMed Asia Pte Ltd
- Managed Resin/Thermoplastics polymer global category management with annual spend of $40M.
- Collaborated and built partnerships across business stakeholders through strategic supplier technical workshops to drive product innovation and deliver ESG goals for sustainability performance in cost and value.
- Evaluated suppliers’ network on current and emerging technologies and industry trends for recommendation of suppliers to Product Development on NPI projects.
ST Engineering Management Services Pte. Ltd.
- Executed Vetronics, Wire Harness and Metal Fabrication cross-sector suppliers’ pollination strategy for alternative sourcing and leverage savings on group scale.
- Formulated procurement strategies (Sustainability, Supply Chain Resilience, Supplier Relationship Management) to assist transformation of LOB operations procurement team from a tactical into more strategic procurement.
- Deployed Data Analytics (MicroStrategy, MS Power BI) to drive market insights and diagnostics of supply chain to establish strategic business plans and value creation for category management.
Nokia Solutions and Networks Singapore Pte Ltd
- Led cross-functional and multi-geographical team of 6 indirect reports in Memories Semiconductor with annual spend of 300 MEUR.
- Formulated and led strategy deployment of price negotiations techniques to achieve annual 10% cost reductions.
- Executed cost savings levers through procurement project total cost of ownership workshops, synergy projects to leverage further 5% cost reductions.
- Developed sourcing strategies to convince stakeholders’ engagement for alternative sourcing with emerging low-cost suppliers, contributed to annual 10% savings target.
- Managed purchase agreements negotiations, MOUs, NDAs, last time buys contracts and investigated non-conformance quality issues and negotiated claims.
- Implemented Supplier Base Management for new supplier selection, onboarding/contracting and supplier development.
- Deployed Kraljic Matrix positioning to develop Supplier Relationship Management to enhance strategic suppliers for collaboration and partnerships growth.
Education
Specialist Diploma in
- Data Science (Big Data and Streaming Analytics)
- Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore
- University of Nottingham, UK
- Second Class Honours
- (Division Two) in Engineering,
- University of Aberdeen, UK
