Regional Procurement Manager - Temporary Agency Workers

Position Snapshot

• Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


• Company: Nestle Global Procurement Division


• Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100 %


• Type of contract: Permanent

What We Offer at Nestle

• Exciting opportunities to develop your career your way; across different brands, businesses, functions, and regions.


• Flexible working arrangements - facilitating creativity and collaboration.


• A dynamic international environment empowering you to learn, develop and grow.

Position summary 

As Regional Procurement Manager – Temporary Agency Workers, you will play a key role in shaping and executing the regional procurement strategy for external workforce services across Asia, Oceania and Africa. This is a complex and high-impact category, supporting diverse factory and business needs across multiple markets, supplier models and regulatory environments.

You will partner closely with Factory Managers, HR, Legal, Finance, technical teams and suppliers to drive value, mitigate risk, strengthen compliance and support responsible workforce practices. Through strong category insight, stakeholder engagement and supplier management, you will help Nestlé build effective, sustainable and compliant external workforce solutions across the region.

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, we’re 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.

Join us and Be a Force for Good

A day in a life of a Regional Procurement Manager – Temporary Agency Workers

• Define and implement category strategies for temporary workforce agency services across Asia, Oceania and Africa.


• Analyse supplier markets, category risks, workforce demand patterns and total cost of ownership to identify opportunities for value creation and risk mitigation.


• Partner with Factory Managers, HR, Legal, Finance and technical teams to understand local workforce needs and align category plans with business priorities.


• Lead supplier engagement, negotiations, contract management and performance reviews to ensure reliable service, competitive commercial terms and compliance with Nestlé requirements.


• Support supplier consolidation and optimisation while recognising the specific needs of local markets, remote factory locations and regulatory environments.


• Drive responsible sourcing practices, with particular focus on labour compliance, ethical workforce standards, forced labour risk and minimum wage requirements.


• Navigate ambiguity and volatility in workforce demand, supplier availability and market regulation with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach.

What Makes You Successful: 

• Solid procurement experience, ideally within professional services, indirect procurement, external workforce, labour hire or temporary agency categories.


• Strong strategic procurement foundations, including sourcing strategy, supplier relationship management, negotiation and contract management.


• Proven ability to manage complex stakeholders across functions such as HR, Legal, Finance, operations, factories and technical teams.


• Strong project management capability, with the ability to drive initiatives across multiple markets and manage competing priorities.


• A risk-aware mindset, with strong ethics and understanding of responsible sourcing, labour compliance and supplier governance.


• High learning agility, adaptability and resilience in dynamic, regulated and sometimes ambiguous environments.


• Proficient in English; additional regional languages would be beneficial.

If your profile matches our needs, we look forward to receiving your application in English.

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