Procurement Category Flexibles Lead - Cape Town Hq / Johannesburg

Pepsico Deutschland Gmbh; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global food and beverage company is seeking a skilled individual in Cape Town for a key position focusing on supplier management and project leadership. The ideal candidate will drive productivity initiatives, provide technical leadership, and manage key supplier relationships. Experience in procurement processes and value engineering is essential. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with iconic brands and contribute to sustainability goals.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing supplier relationships and negotiations.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes and productivity improvements.
• Ability to lead projects related to sourcing and cost strategy.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement global technical platforms for competitive advantage.
• Evaluate Flexible Film RFP's for cost management.
• Provide leadership to the supplier base for performance improvements.
• Manage timelines for transformational projects.

Skills

Technical leadership

Supplier management

Value engineering

Project management

Job description

Overview About PepsiCo : PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than countries and territories around the world.

PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in

• , driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream.

PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+).

pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the centre of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.

For more information, visit Responsibilities What we're looking for : Support in designing and implementing specific global technical platforms and supplier competitive Tension tools that will deliver further competitive advantage for the PepsiCo OU's and bring programs to Sector benchmarks.

Review and sign-off evaluation of all Flexible Film RFP's and cover letters, by assessing smart bidding options and utilizing category levers for lowest total cost to business (TCO) Lead at all business forums Value Engineering / Productivity ingredients initiatives for South Africa – aligning and utilizing Regional & Global leverage and scale, to deliver minimum run rate productivity and P&L savings Establish & Govern CVA / Commodity splits & pricing mechanism for all Ingredients materials – isolate commodity pricing in order to create a cost strategy that provides effective risk management.

Provide technical leadership to the SA supplier base and be a driver of change and performance improvement for the business in line with Commercial and financial priorities.

This includes providing capability to respond to the business need for niche & new products, regional sourcing requirements and the need to comply with regulatory and environmental demands for.

Key enabler to Legal Department to ensure the most beneficial contract terms for PepsiCo, preparation of the contracts and coordinate signing contracts are met.

Manage and develop timelines for transformational projects and be key gatekeeper (Act as owner) in all the critical Purchasing tasks to ensure on-time plan launch.

Responsibility of productivity project identification and implementation in cooperation with sector Procurement and XFP team.

Supplier management : Supplier selection in line with purchasing strategy for the scope : Participation in the local and regional supplier evaluation process and negotiation with suppliers Participation in preparing the sourcing plans Value engineering and productivity projects management and execution New Supplier development Maintaining the SQA & Sustainability requirements Manage supplier relationship through scorecard reviews on quarterly basis with key stakeholders.

Lead dispute resolution regarding material supply, quality issues, invoice and