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Kelly Ong

Senior Regional Category Manager
Bayan Lepas, Penang,07

Summary

Strategic and results-driven Senior Manager in category management within the sector. Proven expertise in driving regional growth through data-driven product strategies, supplier collaboration, and end-to-end lifecycle management. Adept at leading localization initiatives to tailor product materials, marketing assets, and go-to-market strategies for diverse APAC and global markets. Known for cross-functional leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivering customer-centric solutions that align with local market needs and global business goals.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Senior Regional Category Manager

Ultra Clean Technology
09.2024 - Current

Responsibilities:

  • Develop global/regional commodity strategy based on business needs and market condition.
  • Identify suppliers based on customer requirements and supplier capability.
  • Contract management including GSA, inventory management program, etc.
  • Supplier development and maintenance including improvement projects to meet quality, delivery and capability requirements.
  • Negotiation of commercial terms, pricing, lead time, MOQ, incoterm, etc.
  • Conduct QBR to review and improve supplier performance.
  • Project manage transitions and qualifications.
  • Led localization of product and materials For APAC & Global Market, improving regional engagement by 75%.
  • Led cross-functional project teams in the launch of new product lines, resulting in successful category expansion efforts.
  • Visited supplier offices and plants to investigate facilities and capacity to meet quality requirements, specifications and delivery dates.

Purchasing Manager

COMET TECHNOLOGIES MALAYSIA SDN. BHD.
08.2021 - 08.2024

Responsibilities:

  • Lead New project Sourcing and BOM costing and ensure MCOGS meet target
  • Manage FAI PO and ensure material availability to meet project timeline. Including direct materials and indirect materials
  • Develop make or buy strategies for new products with support of engineering organization in line with global commodity strategies.
  • Negotiate and refresh supplier contract on COMET’s interests.
  • Establish and achieve material cost reduction targets and reports on performance against objectives.
  • Ensure master data settings to enable touchless replenishment
  • Monitor and secure supplier delivery performance by tracking order confirmation, and expedition and make SAP updated
  • Drive and monitor supplier’s performance per set KPI, such as OTD, PPV, etc.
  • Drive for VMI/JIT or supplier consignment program to optimize inventory turnover rate.
  • Conduct quarterly business reviews with all strategic suppliers.
  • Manage and report on supplier spend, capacity plans, and risk mitigation plans. Develop multi-sourcing requirement based on business needs.
  • Ensure the materials life cycle is well managed and highlighted to prevent the short and long-term material shortage caused by material obsolescence
  • Manage the ECR/ECN between company and suppliers
  • Other tasks assigned by Superior

Achievements: Transfer product from China & SJC for 6 product family within 16 months

SCM & Logistic Manager

AEM MICROTRONIC (M) SDN BHD
03.2020 - 08.2021

Responsibilities:

  • Manage the purchasing team in ensuring a consistent supply of material through planning and coordinating the process of buying materials.
  • Manage the overall performance of the department by implementing effective procedures, method and resources to meet company objectives
  • Responsible in ensuring department’s KPI on inventory control & turn are achieved through an effective inventory management practices.
  • Understand supplier, their capabilities, market trend and technology
  • Drive towards continuous process improvement and deliver continuous improvement in supplier delivery, quality and cost in terms of material, services, freight & payment terms.
  • Establish strategies to improve supply chain, solve shortage issues and strengthen supplier relationships
  • Initiate continuous process improvement and responsible for optimizing material costs through vendor analysis, quality, schedule and cost evaluation.
  • Responsible in ensuring compliance of Purchasing Policy at all time.
  • Logistic & Warehouse:
  • Take the lead role in planning, costing and allocating routes, vehicles & machineries ensuring sufficient flexibility is in place to meet the varying and changing needs of customers.
  • Optimize transportation modes, routing or frequency of the logistic operations.
  • Implementing, maintaining and optimizing the warehouse management system
  • Lead, coach, motivate and train warehouse and delivery team.
  • Manage and enforce rules and procedures for warehouse and delivery operations.
  • Keep track of quality, quantity, stock level, delivery times and transport costs efficiency.
  • Ensure inventory accuracy is well maintained.
  • To resolve any unforeseen problems and complaints as they arise
  • To assists superior or top management on projects as needed; any other job as assigned from time to time. Ability to work long & odd hours if needed / required and ability to resolve problems.
  • Possess outstanding knowledge in Haulage, storage, logistics and transportation environment, as you will be responsible for all operations tasks.

Purchasing Manager

UWC Holdings Sdn Bhd
07.2018 - 02.2020

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the Purchasing department & implement the best purchasing & practices & strategic in order to guarantee most effective coordination of purchasing activities at the minimum cost/ cost optimization.
  • - Sourcing for reliable & cost effective suppliers to provide quality works & establish relationship with key suppliers & sub-con who are aligned to company needs.
  • - Manage & co-coordinate all procurement activities (include risk buy) associates with new product & last time buy.
  • - To negotiate purchase agreement with supplier.
  • - Locates & develops source of supply through various levels of contact suppliers and potential suppliers.
  • - Responsible for ensuring purchases of materials were in accordance with quality standard, cot effective & time frame to support company's requirements.
  • - Prepare reports as required.
  • - Maintain awareness of market conditions concerning possible shortages, extended lead time, price increase & etc.
  • - Manage & control excess & obsolete material, monitor supplier delivery performance & maintain inventory level to targets.
  • - Maintain close liaison with suppliers on their production capabilities, readiness & material supply.
  • - Review the existing purchase ordering process and implement continuous improvement when necessary.
  • - Set KPI for purchasing & sourcing department aligned with company policy & quality policies.
  • - Ensure compliance with ISO9001:2015 for continuous improvements.
  • - Ensure operating effectiveness of controls & quality of documents, controls gap & corrective action plan.
  • - To perform others ad-hoc task as required by the management.

Senior Administrator

Plexus Manufacturing Sdn Bhd
03.2017 - 06.2018

Key Job Accountabilities:

  • Drive Team to Meet All Materials KPIs
  • Focal point of contact and drive for timely resolution of customer/supplier escalations
  • Minimize inventory while maintaining optimum materials level to meet revenue goals and customer commits
  • Manage excess and obsolescence to minimize materials liabilities to Plexus and customer
  • Flawless Procurement Execution
  • Review and approve purchase commitments made by buyers
  • Conversant to customer contract and Plexus SOPs
  • Provide Guidance to Buyers
  • Provide mentoring/coaching to buyers to ensure customer demands are well executed without compromising Plexus internal metrics
  • Contingency and Change Management
  • Work collaboratively with various functional teams to ensure contingency plans are in place to deal with changes/crisis situations
  • Making tactical decision on materials related within the site level job scopes and escalation to MM as required
  • Acquire, Develop, Retain of Best People to identify and hire right talent, develop high performance and motivated/engaged team with right competencies and capabilities
  • Any other relevant duties/responsibilities to be assigned from time to time

Section Head SCM

SAM Meerkat (M) Sdn Bhd
02.2011 - 03.2017

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Responsible to drive and lead team of buyer to meet the KPI for Purchasing on OTD, Inventory turn & cost reduction.
  • Manage and coordinate all Procurement activities, including monitoring of supplier delivery performance.
  • Able to develop and design procurement capabilities.
  • Drive supplier qualification process, ensure compliance for all suppliers.
  • Manage supplier relationship and perform supplier feedback periodically.
  • Resolve Accounts payable issues and Receiving discrepancies.
  • Work on the cost reduction to meet customer price.
  • Interact with other functions for day to day operation.

Lead Buyer

Venture Electronic Service (M) Sdn. Bhd.
06.2008 - 02.2011

Job Summary:

  • With limited supervision, the incumbent is responsible for scheduling and procurement of assigned production material. Develop procurement skills and consistently demonstrates competence in situations requiring independent judgment. Perform certain assigned projects. Understand and conform to the requirement of Quality, Environmental, Safety & health Management System.


Job Responsibilities:

  • Orders and Schedules Material requirement with supplier, based on MRP report to ensure smooth production flow and zero downtime to Production.
  • Implement re-schedule programs with supplier ensuring no past due Purchase Order.
  • Reviews engineering change implementations dates with suppliers.
  • Tracks and expedite in bound shipments
  • Maintain inventory levels to target.
  • Responsible for data base integrity within management assigned area of responsibility.
  • With management approval, has authority to negotiate purchase contras with suppliers.
  • Locates and develops sources of supply through various levels of contracts with suppliers and potential suppliers
  • Direct and / or secures and analyze price quotations from suppliers.
  • Arranges and conducts meeting with engineering, manufacturing, supplier assurance and suppliers on procurement matters.
  • Prepares, implements and follow up on consignment. Return rejected vendor material and negotiates with suppliers for replacement of rejected material.
  • Directs and / or initiates the preparation of purchase orders and selects the vendor to be used.
  • Prepares, negotiates, awards and administer production contracts.
  • Prepares reports as required, indicating delivery delays, inventory summary data, etc.
  • Maintains awareness of market conditions concerning possible shortage, extended lead times, possible price increase, etc.
  • Control excess and obsolete material.
  • Visits suppliers as leader of a supplier qualification team to determine if source are capable of meeting present or future company needs.
  • Monitor supplier performance such as hub inventory, responsiveness to forecast, order reschedule and independent demand.
  • Support NPI Material Readiness.
  • Support in Physical Stock take activities.
  • Participate in the Environmental, Safety & Health Management System.
  • To get the suppliers involve in Environmental, Safety and Health.
  • Performs other related duties or projects as when assigned or requested.

Buyer Planner

Jabil Circuit (M) Sdn. Bhd.
08.2005 - 04.2008

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Plan, schedule and action materials supply to equal demand
  • Participate in decision making of MPS loading through proper materials sizing.
  • Analyze, maintain and execute Material Requirement Plan (MRP). Continuously monitor and verify materials pipeline to ensure it meets the MRP requirements. Identify and appropriately address materials supply issues.
  • Ensure materials availability to support production per the Master Production Schedule through MRP execution, on time delivery and coordinator of materials movement through receiving to Production.
  • Effectively manage materials requirement changes resulting from Engineering Change Notifications (ECNs) and product End Of Life (EOL)
  • Disposition non-confirming, excess, obsolete and/ or high stock materials in timely manner.
  • Support optimize overall cost of materials
  • Issue Purchase Orders to pricing, terms & conditions that are negotiated and agreed to by Jabil Commodity Manager and Buyer. Ensure suppliers adherence to established agreements
  • Optimize order management process to ensure effective communication with suppliers.
  • Maintain integrity of master data and purchasing planning parameters in order to minimize material liability and to balance the cost of procurement with the inventory investment levels.
  • Monitor and continuously improve suppliers delivery and quality performance. Address and resolve recurring or critical by utilizing corrective action tools and additional resources.
  • Support Accounts payable in resolving invoice discrepancies.
  • Provide inputs to drive and execute Jabils commodity and pricing strategy. Work closely with procurement, Community Managers & Supply Chain Managers. Provide feedback on supplier performance and Jabils strategies.
  • Minimize materials freight expenses for Jabil.
  • Adhere to all policies and procedures

MRO Coordinator

Interworld Networks (M) Sdn Bhd
04.2005 - 08.2005

Responsibilities:

  • Managed project timelines for successful completion, ensuring milestones were met and deadlines were adhered to.
  • Enhanced customer satisfaction by responding promptly to inquiries and addressing concerns professionally.
  • Organized and maintained project documentation, enabling quick access to important information and facilitating smoother project transitions.
  • Coordinated logistics for large-scale events, significantly reducing setup times and eliminating scheduling conflicts.

SALES COORDINATOR

YAKU SHIN (M) SND BHD
05.2003 - 04.2005

Responsibilities :

  • Issues manufacturing notice and prepare the delivery schedule to customer.
  • Receiving p/o frm customer, issued manufacturing issues to related department. base on the pre-production schedule frm pc to prepare delivery schedule and channel to customer.
  • Shipment arrangement
  • Arrange shipment by filling shipping / delivery detail when finished good are ready for shipment.
  • Updating of post mp product costing.
  • Update model costing when necessary.
  • Updating material cost VS selling price of all models
  • Update material cost VS selling price of all models whenever necessary.
  • As a communication bridge between customer.


Education

Bachelor of Business Studies/Administration/Management - Production Operation Management

Universiti Utara Malaysia
Kedah Darul Aman
01.2002

No Degree - Business Administration And Management

Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah
Jitra, Kedah, Malaysia
04.2001 -

Skills

SAP system,

Interpersonal Skills

  • Leadership Skills
  • Multilingual content adaptation
  • Localization strategy
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Market-specific compliance
  • Ability to Work under Pressure

Languages

English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Upper intermediate (B2)
Malay
Upper intermediate (B2)

Timeline

Senior Regional Category Manager

Ultra Clean Technology
09.2024 - Current

Purchasing Manager

COMET TECHNOLOGIES MALAYSIA SDN. BHD.
08.2021 - 08.2024

SCM & Logistic Manager

AEM MICROTRONIC (M) SDN BHD
03.2020 - 08.2021

Purchasing Manager

UWC Holdings Sdn Bhd
07.2018 - 02.2020

Senior Administrator

Plexus Manufacturing Sdn Bhd
03.2017 - 06.2018

Section Head SCM

SAM Meerkat (M) Sdn Bhd
02.2011 - 03.2017

Lead Buyer

Venture Electronic Service (M) Sdn. Bhd.
06.2008 - 02.2011

Buyer Planner

Jabil Circuit (M) Sdn. Bhd.
08.2005 - 04.2008

MRO Coordinator

Interworld Networks (M) Sdn Bhd
04.2005 - 08.2005

SALES COORDINATOR

YAKU SHIN (M) SND BHD
05.2003 - 04.2005

No Degree - Business Administration And Management

Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Business Studies/Administration/Management - Production Operation Management

Universiti Utara Malaysia
Kelly OngSenior Regional Category Manager