Job Description
Function/Department : Procurement
Position Title & Location : Manager, Procurement Indirect SSA – Head Office Durban, Westville
Position Purpose :
The role is responsible for the indirect procurement function across the SSA Region. Procurement is committed to deliver a significant contribution towards Brambles growth goals, enabling the markets to win through Procurement using breakthrough category strategies and sourcing execution to support operating margin improvement and competitive advantage.
Indirect Procurement categories tend to be complex with varying stakeholder needs, significant external spend and key relationships up to and including executive level. The prime accountability for this role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in these categories are executed brilliantly with our vendors. This role will lead some sourcing decisions with key stakeholders and will apply category management to support the maximization of value, whilst minimizing risk from all external spend and assuring quality of delivery and performance
Major/Key Accountabilities
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Deliver Indirect Annual Savings Targets in line with Brambles One Procurement Strategy for SSA region ($600K).
- Tracking of approved actualised savings monthly.
- Develop and manage project plans for all savings initiatives
- Develop and Implement Indirect Category Sourcing Strategies for SSA
- Develop the local procurement strategy where the business subscribes to 3rd party service centres
- Develop, Coach and Implement Individual Development Plans for Indirect Procurement Team.
- Be the champion for Strategic Sourcing and share as part of monthly knowledge sharing sessions the methodology.
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Build relationships & credibility with All Business Stakeholders leveraging Procurement early in the process for required goods & services
- Develop Stakeholder Communication Plan
- Consult regularly with Brambles category managers to understand developments in markets where intelligence data is limited to leverage scale and volume with suppliers driving initiatives and cost down
- Participate and contribute on Monthly Brambles Category Review Boards
- Negotiations with Suppliers on all category / commodity price increases
- Communication and implementation of new agreed prices
- Drive, Deliver and Implement all initiatives along with relevant business stakeholders
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Contract Management
- Creation
- Approval from Legal
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Supplier Relationship Management
- Create KPI’s to manage supplier performance and conduct monthly / quarterly / bi-annual meetings with relevant business stakeholder
- Management of a robust governance structure.
- Ensure that stakeholders actively participate in assessing the progress against the plan, engaging additional stakeholders as required
- Take full ownership of the communication and training plans for the categories in scope
- Valuable contributions to Brambles Procurement function in areas such as global and regional projects & initiatives. Building of Brambles Procurement relationships and functional cohesion.
- Influence and Drive procurement Indirects spend to support the Regional BBBEEE targets
Support & drive BBBEE Supplier and Enterprise Development initiatives from a procurement perspective
Scope :
- This is a vital role, requiring a mature individual with specialist skills and knowledge of procurement concepts, and fundamentals to concentrate on improving efficiencies through innovation with the ultimate responsibility of driving cost down without any impact to security of supply.
- Good communication and influencing skills are essential, as the position requires interaction with senior and executive management. The individual will be required to make decisions based on judgement and understanding of the implications to the business.
- Need to be able to manage people and impart skills
Annual Influenceable Spend : Approx. US$32million (FY15)
Countries : SSA
Challenges:
- Managing multiple projects simultaneously, including managing priorities and project plans.
- Working remotely, independently and autonomously with limited supervision and multiple senior stakeholders to manage.
- Developing internal stakeholder relationships.
- Achieving outcomes with professionalism, a sense of urgency, effective stakeholder management, leverage of experience and use of commercial acumen.
- Travel to undesirable locations
- Working across time zones and cultures
- Covering all facets of procurement ranging from Strategic to Operational activities.
- Limited access to individuals that influence on time delivery of projects
Cross-Functional sourcing teams in different locations and time zones
Qualifications :
Essential:
- o 3 year Business Degree or
- o Supply Chain qualification (NQF 6 Dip. SCM / similar) or
- o Engineering qualification (B. Eng / N. Dip. Eng.)
- Desirable:
- Procurement tertiary qualification (CIPS / similar)
Experience :
- 8 years’ experience in a procurement capacity, of which 5 should have been in a management
- Strong experience negotiating across a range of external suppliers
- Experience with legal contracting
- Proven project management experience
- Professional procurement expertise based on depth of experience and commercial acumen
- Mentoring and Facilitation
Skills and Knowledge :
- Ability to challenge, influence and work with cross functional teams
- Strong communication and listening skills
- Self-starter who is able to multi-task
- Specialist knowledge of strategic sourcing, other procurement concepts, processes, activities and trends.
- Advanced negotiation skills
- Advanced analytical interpretation and problem-solving skills
- Highly developed project management and contract management skills including tenacity to deliver outcomes – Good Finisher.
- Strong Interpersonal and Relationship skills
- Strong Project Management skills
Preferred Education
Bachelors – Business Administration/Management
Preferred Level of Work Experience
5 – 7 years
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