My first placement was in Vietnam with a role to support strategic initiatives relating to supply chain including contract negotiations and performance improvement of key suppliers. My second placement was at Divisional Procurement (Airframe Systems). This placement gave me a chance to work with different Procurement Leads within the Division.
I have been involved in a lot of strategic procurement activities including preparing and launching tenders, negotiating contracts, evaluating supplier performance and so on. I was, fortunately, involved in assisting the sourcing for the Ventilator project.
Stepping down as the Procurement Lead for Vietnam site and joining the Graduate Programme has afforded me the opportunity to learn the best practices across different Meggitt sites and gain further professional development.
As part of the professional development, I am working toward MCIPS Chartered Procurement and Supply Professional status.
I was based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Fareham, United Kindom. I am looking forward to moving to the new facility in Ansty, Coventry.
Absolutely. I have always felt part of any teams that I was in. I had thought that moving from one job to another would be challenging. However, with all the supports from colleagues in the teams, I found myself getting along with work so much easier.
I was tasked to launch a machining tender which involved more than a hundred items. The preparation stage was challenging when I had to work with various departments such as Engineering, Quality, Trade Compliance and Commerce to collocate all required documents. With many supports from colleagues within my team and the bigger Meggitt team, I have successfully launched the tender.
I am keen to learn new things and adopt best practices in my current and next rotation. Afterwards, I am looking forward to get back to Asia and have a permanent job. I see so much potential and opportunities to improve and develop a robust and low-cost supply chain there.