Procurement Performance Acceleration Project Manager Decision Intelligence

Position snapshot

• Location: Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
• Company: Nestlé Global Procurement Division
• Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100 %
• Type of contract:Permanent

What we offer at Nestlé

• Exciting opportunities to develop your career your way; across different brands businesses functions and regions.
• Flexible working arrangements - facilitating creativity and collaboration.
• A culture of respect with diversity equity and inclusion at its core.
• A dynamic international environment empowering you to learn develop and grow.

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Position summary

As a Project Manager Decision Intelligence within Global Analytics team in Procurement you play a key role in accelerating the use of advanced analytics and Generative AI across the function. The position is embedded in the business and focuses on rapidly designing and validating highquality analytical and AIenabled solutions that address complex procurement challenges.

You lead solution design and early build activities to establish clear working reference implementations that demonstrate value technical feasibility and business fit. You then work closely with IT and our partners to support industrialisation and deployment ensuring solutions meet enterprise standards while preserving speed and intent.

Throughout you remain accountable for adoption decision impact and value realisation.

This role combines strong analytical and technical capability with delivery leadership business judgement and the ability to operate effectively in a fastmoving agile environment.

Global Procurement at Nestlé

As a strategic partner to our businesses we drive sustainable growth and unlock long-term value. With over 40 different nationalities based across our three dynamic hubs in Switzerland Panama and Malaysia we operate on a truly global scale. With a strong focus on innovation and deep commitment to sustainability were shaping the future of procurement. Our diverse teams lead with purpose ensuring value creation through responsibly sourced supply across a broad range of direct and indirect categories.

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A day in a life of a Project Manager for Procurement Performance Acceleration (PPA)

• Identify priority procurement use cases where advanced analytics or GenAI can materially improve efficiency insight or decision quality.
• Translate business needs into clear solution concepts architectures and working prototypes that can be tested quickly with end users.
• Design and develop initial solution implementations sufficient to validate logic usability and value and to provide a clear blueprint for scale.
• Work in close collaboration with Procurement stakeholders to refine solutions based on real usage and feedback.
• Partner with IT data and security teams to prepare solutions for industrialisation providing clear specifications acceptance criteria and quality expectations.
• Drive progress through short delivery cycles balancing speed with robustness governance and enterprise constraints.
• Monitor adoption and impact adjusting solutions as needed to ensure sustained use and measurable value.

What makes you successful:

• 58 years of relevant experience in applied AI data science advanced analytics or software-enabled product delivery with evidence of shipping solutions used in practice.
• Hands-on builder: able to design and implement working AI solutions independently (prototype/reference implementation) including clean code tests and clear interfaces.
• Strong quantitative foundation (data science statistics/applied mathematics operations research computer science or economics) and ability to reason with uncertainty and complex trade-offs.
• Experience with modern GenAI solution patterns such as agentic workflows tool/function calling structured outputs orchestration/state management and evaluation-driven iteration.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: Python (preferred) API/service design version control testing and pragmatic documentation.
• Ability to work business-embedded: translate procurement needs into solution designs iterate fast with users and drive adoption and measurable impact.
• Experience partnering with IT to industrialize and deploy solutions at scale using clear requirements acceptance criteria and quality expectations.

If your profile matches our needs we look forward to receiving your application inEnglish.

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