Sourcing Manager, Marketing (Media & MarTech) at Grab · Petaling…

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence. We harness the power of Technology and AI to deliver our mission. Our mission is to lead Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone. We do this with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

Grab Procurement is not a compliance function. We are a commercial intelligence engine — built to create enterprise value through smarter supplier relationships, sharper commercial models, and procurement infrastructure that enables the business to move fast and spend wisely.

We are mid-transformation: moving from a process-oriented team to an AI-native, outcomes-focused function where each person owns a material part of Grab's commercial landscape. If you want to run processes, this isn't the team. If you want to manage outcomes, it is.

You will report to and work with the Regional Category Head, Marketing Procurement and base on-site in our Petaling Jaya office.

Get to Know the Role

Media and MarTech together represent one of Grab's largest, most commercially complex, and fastest-evolving spend categories. You must understand where the media supply chain is going — not just where it has been — and have the Heart and Hunger to shape commercial solutions with the Agencies and the Business.

You will oversee end-to-end commercial sourcing strategy for media services and marketing technology across Grab's SEA markets. The Marketing organization trusts, respects, and pulls in the commercial counterpart before it makes the decisions — not after.

We are looking for someone who brings genuine supply-side fluency. You have a media agency background, with experience in media planning (including OOH and digital exposure) or account management (with a good grip on FTE structures and commercial models). This combination is necessary to translate that knowledge into value for Grab, using procurement rigour.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

What You Own

Media Category Strategy

Develop a living category strategy for paid digital, programmatic, search, social, OOH, and latest channels. Grounded in SEA market realities; updated as commercial landscape shifts. Cover both Media and MarTech sub-categories.

Sourcing & Commercial Architecture

Lead all RFx processes for media and MarTech. Design commercial models that reflect how value is actually created — output-based, performance-linked, or hybrid. No legacy manhour-by-default. Accountable to the recommendation end to end.

Media Transparency & Audit

Establish and manage media audit capability across main markets. Identify, scope, and deploy audit mechanisms that surface rebates, hidden fees, inventory mark-ups, and non-transparent programmatic trading. You oversee the commercial truth of the media supply chain.

MarTech Procurement & Rationalization

Manage MarTech category: tool rationalization, build-vs-buy framework, contract renewals, and vendor governance. Ensure stack consolidation and Return on investment linkage to media and KOL. Prevent tool sprawl and reduce duplicative spend across markets.

Emerge and AI-Native Commercial Models

As AI reshapes agency delivery — AI-generated creative, automated buying, token-based pricing — ensure Grab's contracts and commercial terms evolve ahead of the curve. Work with MarTech teams to build procurement guardrails for AI tooling adoption.

Supplier Performance Governance (SRM)

Oversee the performance framework for media and MarTech partners. Define goals, lead QBRs (MCS, Mindshare, Publicis), and escalate when standards fall short. Relationship management is not enough — you hold suppliers commercially accountable.

Savings & Value Delivery

Accountable for measurable savings and efficiency gains — cost reduction, spend effectiveness, DPO improvement, and commercial model value creation. Not cost avoidance alone.

Upstream Business Partnership

Be the commercial partner Regional Marketing and Growth teams trust. Take positions in the room before, not after. Influence sourcing decisions upstream. Create the Procurement Value Calendar to align engagement with marketing's business rhythm.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You will treat your category like a business owner, not just a process executor. When something is wrong, you fix it. When something is right, you build it. You do not wait for someone to ask, and you do not finish the activity — you achieve the outcome.
• You will architect a deal, not just run a Request for Proposal. You understand leverage, commercial risk, and contract structure well enough to negotiate without a play book. You can construct a commercial model from fundamentals when the category doesn't have one.
• You will have genuine category expertise in media services. This expertise includes knowledge of how people plan, buy, and measure media. You understand where you can create value. Additionally, you are aware of where rebates, mark-ups, and transparency gaps live. You also know what programmatic trading actually means commercially. Furthermore, you can differentiate between digital, social, and performance media structurally. You cannot bluff this with general procurement skills.
• You understand MarTech as a commercial category — not just as a list of tools. You can run a rationalisation exercise, structure a build-vs-buy recommendation, and negotiate SaaS terms that protect Grab's flexibility.
• You understand how AI is changing the media and marketing services supply chain — AI-generated content, automated buying, new Ai-led agency pricing models. You also use AI tools in your own work: sourcing analysis, benchmark research, contract review, RFx drafting. Not as a novelty, as a working method.
• The media and MarTech categories is structurally changing. You will break if you anchor yourself to how things worked three years ago. You must be willing to discard established models, question received wisdom, and build commercial frameworks that reflect where the industry is going, not where it has been.
• You excel in upstream engagement. You create the conditions for good commercial decisions by being in the room early — building the Procurement Value Calendar, aligning with Marketing's business rhythm, and shaping the sourcing agenda before positions harden.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Our FlexWork arrangements, such as notable hours, make balancing personal commitments and life's demands easier.

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.