IMC is seeking a Head of Procurement, APAC to lead the procurement function across the Asia Pacific region. This is a newly created role reporting into the APAC CFO, with a dotted line to the Global Head of Procurement. The successful candidate will own regional procurement strategy, build and lead the APAC team, and act as the senior commercial partner to the business across technology, infrastructure and corporate spend.
The role owns the commercial outcomes, supplier relationships and procurement execution that APAC depends on, with direct accountability to regional leadership. It is also one of IMC's regional procurement leads and is expected to help shape and then adopt a shared operating model, so that IMC negotiates as one firm with suppliers who serve it in every region.
The role covers procurement across all APAC categories. Corporate and indirect spend is already well covered by an established team, so the emphasis of this hire is IT and technology procurement. IMC's technology spend is growing quickly and is concentrated in seller-led markets: data centres and exchange colocation, compute and GPU infrastructure, networking, low-latency connectivity, market data and enterprise software. The successful candidate brings real depth in these categories and the commercial judgement to negotiate at scale in them.
Core Responsibilities
Regional leadership
- Own procurement strategy for APAC, aligned to regional business priorities and to the global procurement operating model.
- Act as the senior procurement partner to APAC leadership, including the regional CFO and technology leadership, on all significant commercial decisions.
- Build, lead and develop the APAC procurement team. Set priorities and coverage, and raise the capability of the function over time.
- Represent APAC in global procurement forums and own the regional input into global category strategies and supplier negotiations.
Technology and infrastructure sourcing
- Lead sourcing and negotiation across IT categories: data centres and colocation, compute and GPU infrastructure, networking hardware, low-latency connectivity, cross-connects and telecommunications, market data, and enterprise software and cloud.
- Partner daily with engineering, platform, data centre and infrastructure teams to translate technical requirements into sourcing strategies and commercial outcomes.
- Run structured RFI, RFP and RFQ processes: define requirements, evaluate responses, and drive to a documented award recommendation.
- Negotiate OEM, VAR and reseller agreements covering pricing, lead times, allocation, service levels and lifecycle support.
- Track supply constraints, OEM roadmaps, allocation dynamics and pricing trends across the region, and turn that into actionable intelligence for stakeholders.
- Own the logistics of regional hardware procurement, including freight, customs and import duties, delivery to site, and the entity and invoicing structure for cross-border purchases.
Commercial negotiation and contracting
- Lead negotiations on the region's most significant agreements, including multi-year commitments, renewals and enterprise frameworks.
- Surface and manage commercial risk in contract terms, including commitment and shortfall structures, auto-renewal and notice windows, termination rights, guarantees and liability provisions.
- Work with Legal, Finance, Risk and Compliance to finalise terms through IMC's contract intake and review process.
- Maintain visibility of renewal and expiry dates across the regional portfolio, so that no agreement renews by default.
Governance, data and process
- Own accurate regional data on spend, contracts, suppliers and pipeline, and contribute it to the global reporting standard.
- Report on savings, spend against budget and supplier performance.
- Review and strengthen commercial and procurement processes across the region, including policy, approval thresholds and workflows, keeping them consistent with global standards and with local legal and regulatory requirements.
- Drive the use of AI, automation and tooling to streamline procurement, including intake, sourcing, contract review and spend analysis, so the function scales with IMC's growth.
- Run supplier performance reviews and quarterly business reviews for strategic regional suppliers, and escalate delivery, quality and pricing issues early.
- Own vendor due diligence and third-party risk assessment for new and renewing suppliers, including material outsourcing arrangements, and maintain the regional supplier and outsourcing register with Risk and Compliance.
Global alignment
- Work with the Global Head of Procurement and the other regional leads to identify consolidation opportunities and build global leverage with shared suppliers.
- Adopt global category strategies where they serve the region, and make the case for local variation where they do not.
- Contribute to global systems and tooling initiatives, including the spend and contract visibility program.
Skills and Experience
- Significant experience in procurement, strategic sourcing or supply chain, including experience leading a function or a team.
- Substantial IT and technology procurement experience, with depth in several of: data centres and colocation, enterprise compute and GPU infrastructure, networking, low-latency connectivity, market data, enterprise software and cloud.
- Proven record negotiating complex, high-value technology agreements in seller-led markets, including multi-year commitments and allocation-constrained supply.
- Experience operating in a multi-region structure, and achieving outcomes through influence rather than positional authority.
- Strong commercial judgement on contract terms, with the ability to identify where a term carries real financial exposure and to quantify it for Legal and Finance.
- Experience of third-party and vendor risk processes, including supplier due diligence and material outsourcing assessments in a regulated environment.
- Working knowledge of cross-border hardware logistics, including freight, customs and import duty exposure.
- Credibility with technical stakeholders. Able to hold a substantive conversation with engineering teams and translate their requirements into a sourcing plan.
- People leadership experience: hiring, developing and retaining procurement talent.
- Experience across the APAC region and its supplier landscape. Familiarity with Australia and at least one of Hong Kong, Singapore or China preferred.
- Comfortable with procurement systems, ERP and spend analytics. Experience improving data quality and visibility, not only consuming reports.
- Track record of improving procurement processes and adopting tooling, including AI and automation, to increase speed and reduce manual effort.
- Financial services or trading experience is an advantage but not a requirement. Comparable experience in a technology-intensive, fast-moving environment is equally relevant.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Finance or a related field.
- Professional certification such as CPSM or CIPS is preferred but not required.
About Us
IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.
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