Regional Category Manager, Capital Construction (APAC)

Overview

Lead the India-based GSP Category Execution Hub, driving commercial execution for APAC's most complex capital construction programs across India, Korea, Taiwan and China.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow the India Hub team responsible for sourcing execution, cost modeling, analytics and supplier performance.
• Drive operational excellence across category execution workflows, including RFx, contracting support, benchmarking, market intelligence and commercial governance.
• Serve as the primary point of leadership for India-based category execution supporting APAC capital projects.
• Oversee the full RFx lifecycle for complex construction, engineering, cleanroom and fit-out packages.
• Set negotiation strategy, support contract-structure development and ensure commercial alignment across multiple projects and markets.
• Ensure commercial rigor on change-order management, claims mitigation, cost reconciliation and risk allocation.
• Partner with Commercial Managers and GWI to ensure category execution supports project schedule, budget and risk requirements.
• Lead supplier capability assessments, long-term performance tracking and supplier-development programs across APAC construction categories.
• Provide forward-looking visibility into resource constraints, market disruptions, contractor risks and capacity challenges.
• Influence supplier segmentation strategy together with GSP Category Leadership.
• Establish and maintain structured governance mechanisms for supplier performance, quality and consistency.
• Lead development of cost models, inflation indexes, market-trend dashboards and commercial risk heatmaps.
• Provide decision-grade insights to Singapore Category Leadership, onsite commercial teams and project executives.
• Support regional capital planning with analytical inputs, cost forecasts and scenario modeling.
• Drive data governance discipline to ensure audit-ready processes, document control and compliance.
• Enable rapid scaling of sourcing support across India, Korea, Taiwan and China during project surges.
• Establish standardized processes, templates, playbooks and commercial governance frameworks for APAC.
• Partner with onsite focal resources to resolve commercial issues, negotiate escalations and drive supplier accountability.
• Lead continuous-improvement initiatives to optimize cycle time, sourcing quality and process maturity.

What you'll need

• 10-15 years of experience in capital construction procurement, category management or large-program commercial operations.
• Proven track record leading complex, multi-package tenders for manufacturing, cleanroom, semiconductor, life-sciences or advanced infrastructure projects.
• Deep expertise in commercial negotiation, contract terms, risk allocation, claims strategy and cost governance.
• Strong leadership capability, able to build, mentor and scale high-performing teams.
• Advanced analytical capability in cost modeling, market intelligence, benchmarking and financial analysis.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• High agility, strong judgment and ability to operate in fast-moving, high-ambiguity project environments.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Full time, Assignee / Regular employee type.
• Travel: 20% of the time.
• Relocation eligible.