Procurement Systems & Analytics Excellence Lead

Liquid Intelligent Technologies

Gauteng

On-site

ZAR 900,000 - 1,400,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Liquid Intelligent Technologies is seeking a proponent to support the Head of Procurement & Supply Chain Excellence in driving continuous improvement across the Group. You will ensure procurement systems are configured, maintained, and enhanced to deliver efficiency, governance and data-driven decisions.

The role leads automation and digital transformation initiatives to optimise spend visibility, reporting, and ESG integration across markets.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, information systems, data sciences, computer sciences, industrial engineering, or related field essential.
Professional certification in procurement or ERP and sourcing systems advantageous.
4-8 years' process excellence, automation, and continuous improvement within procurement or supply chain environments mandatory.
Hands-on experience with digital tools, analytics platforms, or AI-driven compliance and reporting systems.
1 year experience in ESG and sustainability integration within procurement processes.

Responsibilities

Contributes towards the overall achievement procurement systems adoption across the group; maintain and update process documentation and SOPs in line with systems changes.
Collaborate with business units/markets and suppliers to streamline requisition-to-purchase order (R2PO) and purchase order-to-payment (P2P) processes.
Drive automation and digital transformation initiatives to streamline procurement workflows and reduce manual interventions.
Ensure accurate configuration and maintenance of procurement master data, approval workflows, and reporting dashboards.
Monitor and report on system performance, user adoption, and process compliance metrics across the Group.
Design, enhance, and maintain procurement analytics platforms and dashboards using AI to improve forecasting accuracy, spend visibility, and decision intelligence.
Identify trends, risks, and opportunities through data analysis to support cost optimisation, supplier performance improvement, and process efficiency.
Ensure alignment of procurement data governance and reporting standards across all markets with group IT and Finance.
Generate and distribute periodic procurement performance reports (spend analysis, supplier performance, compliance metrics, ESG compliance) to key stakeholders.
Embed ESG principles into procurement workflows through automation and data-driven supplier assessments; collaborate with Group Risk and Sustainability to drive ESG risk assessments.