Lead supplier development, supplier negotiations, RFQs, category strategy for major suppliers and identification of continuous improvement opportunities.
Responsibilities
Supplier management
- Communicate and negotiate with suppliers
- Monitor quality standards and identifies performance failures
- Conduct supplier audits and reports on supplier performance
- Manage supplier communications and documents and process flow, including RFIs, RFP, RFQ, and RFB’s
- Resolve supplier issues; maintain working relationships with key suppliers
- Set up new vendors and coordinate with legal to support new contracts; maintain/ update existing contracts
- Identify new suppliers and products in the marketplace
- Vet potential supplier’s capabilities (delivery, quality, services)
- Review insourcing and outsourcing opportunities
- Negotiate with suppliers to carry stock for fast moving items
- Assist in the drafting of specifications as required, and provide advice and guidance to customers on procurement processes
- Review and approve price variances (Order vs Invoice Prices)
- BBBEE and procurement administration
Risk management
- Maintain and report on adherence to internal and external compliance requirements
- Actively reduce third-party risk exposure
- Carry out risk management processes within category
Quality and qualifying products
- Assist quality teams to obtain products needed to conduct finished product testing
- Schedule product trials and coordinate samples
Reporting and record keeping
- Maintain repository of procurement-related knowledge
- Maintain complete, compliant documentation of purchasing activities
- Maintain standards and updates SOPs for documentation and filing requirements
Budgeting
- Manage and optimise use of Category budget
- Provide input into required changes in resources to enable achievement of objectives
- Monitor and track and reports on expenditure against budget
Planning and coordination
- Optimise processes, identify gaps in policies, procedures and legislation, and propose changes or improvements to management
- Provide technical advice to internal stakeholders
Background/experience
- 6 years’ experience in a manufacturing procurement environment, and preferably with significant experience in a Category environment.
- National Diploma in (Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Finance), or a related discipline
Specific job skills
Competencies
- Customer Awareness
- Meeting Deadlines
- Making Decisions
- Planning and Organising
- Interrogating Information
Aspen is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and suitably qualified job applicants are invited to submit their CVs online on or before the specified date. Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups, through a fair recruitment and selection process, in accordance with laws governing employment equity, where such laws are applicable to the Aspen entity that will employ the successful candidate.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted, thus if you have not heard from the HR department within 30 days of this advert closing, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Internal Applicants must inform their direct line managers of their application. Applications must be completed using an Aspen email address.