Procurement Centre of Excellence Assistant Manager – Compliance & Performance(2-Year Contract)
Company Description
Cathay is a leading premium travel lifestyle brand based in Hong Kong, offering products and services across four lines of business – Premium Travel, Cargo, Low-Cost Travel and Lifestyle. The Cathay Group comprises premium full-service airline Cathay Pacific, cargo business Cathay Cargo, low-cost airline HK Express, express all-cargo carrier Air Hong Kong, and various other subsidiaries.
At Cathay, we are committed to moving people forward in life — whether through travel experience, lifestyle products or career growth. Being part of Cathay is more than just a job, it’s a meaningful career journey toward realising your ambitions. Your skills will become a bridge that connects the world, opening up infinite possibilities along our customers’ life journeys. If you are seeking an opportunity to take flight, let your ambitions propel you higher and further.
Make Your Career Move, together with Cathay.
Notes:
1. All Chinese mainland based positions are subject to local terms and conditions.
2. Once employment is confirmed, the employment contract and personnel file will be arranged through a local third-party human resources agency designated by Cathay Pacific.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, enhance and deliver clear, actionable dashboards, reports, and presentations, translating data into meaningful insights for category teams, procurement leadership, and senior management.
- Leverage automation and AI-driven tools to streamline reporting processes, improve data accuracy, and reduce manual effort.
- Proactively identify compliance risks and gaps, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Communicate business insights (g. spend analytics, procurement benefits, purchasing channels) to identify trends, patterns, risks and opportunities.
- Manage and optimise analytics platforms (e.g. SAP Spend Control Tower, Ariba Spend Visibility, reporting tools), ensuring effective data integration, enrichment and classification.
- Drive adoption and capability by training procurement teams on analytic tools, use of dashboards and data in decision making.
- Lead and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives across procurement compliance and performance.
- Collaborate across teams to address compliance issues, promote best practices, and influence data-driven behaviours.
- Support the regular review and enhancement of Procurement Policy and Procedures.
- Support or lead PCOE strategic initiatives and transformation projects including digitalisation and automation efforts.
- Ensure full consistency and alignment to the organisational standards, procurement policies, and S2P processes.
Requirements
- Degree holder
- 5+ working experience on compliance, reporting and analysis.
- Hands-on experience with the procurement systems (e.g. SAP, SAP Spend Control Tower, Ariba Upstream, Ariba Spend Visibility, Ariba Guided Buying).
- Experience with data visualisation tools (e.g. Power-BI, SAP Analytics Cloud), strong proficiency in Excel and data modelling.
- Familiarity with automation tools, AI-driven analytics, or digital transformation programmes.
- Knowledge of procurement lifecycle (sourcing, contracting, S2P processes) is an advantage.
- Compliance awareness and understanding of governance frameworks is desirable.
- Project management experience and ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- Good communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills is essential.
- High attention to detail, strong ownership, and disciplined follow-through on deliverables.
- Logical, structured, and data-driven mindset with a strong focus of continuous improvement, innovation, and automation.
Personal & Application Information
Cathay Pacific is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with our Applicant Personal Information Collection Statement and for recruitment purposes only. Candidates not notified within eight weeks may consider their application unsuccessful. We keep records of your data for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which we obtained them and any other permitted linked purposes. If your application is unsuccessful, we will keep your details on file for as long as is necessary to process your application or for the purposes of further job opportunities if you agree to such longer periods.
