Senior Procurement Manager, Goods and Services

Brambles; KwaZulu-Natal; Hybrid; ZAR 700 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global supply chain organization in KwaZulu-Natal is seeking a Procurement Manager to lead sourcing strategies and supplier management. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years in procurement, hold a relevant degree, and possess strong negotiation skills. This role offers a hybrid working model and contributes to organizational excellence through strategic procurement initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in procurement experience required.
• Experience in manufacturing or FMCG environment is a must.
• Stakeholder satisfaction focus and supplier management skills required.

Responsibilities

• Develop sustainable sourcing strategies aligned with procurement priorities.
• Lead negotiations with suppliers for better terms.
• Oversight of supplier performance management to ensure compliance.

Skills

Professional procurement expertise

Commercial negotiation skills

Project management experience

Supplier performance management

Strategic thinking

Education

Degree in supply chain, business, engineering or science

CIPS qualification

Tools

Procurement systems

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sustainable category sourcing strategies for the region/function that align with global and local procurement priorities.
• Act as a champion for strategic sourcing, ensuring procurement initiatives deliver long‑term value and meet organisational needs.
• Lead category management for key spend areas, applying data‑driven insights, market intelligence and advanced procurement techniques to maximise value and minimise risk. Consider external market factors and emerging trends that could impact business objectives.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with senior business stakeholders, ensuring procurement is involved early in the sourcing process. Leverage procurement expertise to align sourcing initiatives with business needs and provide strategic advice that enhances procurement’s role.
• Lead complex negotiations with suppliers to secure favourable terms and manage pricing strategies. Implement new pricing agreements, manage supplier contracts and conduct ongoing reviews to ensure compliance with contractual terms.
• Oversee supplier performance management across key categories, ensuring suppliers consistently meet performance, quality, and cost requirements.
• Ensure all procurement activities adhere to regulatory requirements, internal policies and ethical standards. Develop strategies to minimise supply‑chain risk, including mitigating supplier risk, financial exposure and potential disruptions.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the procurement function, ensuring alignment with annual targets. Provide regular updates on procurement performance, cost savings, supplier performance and compliance metrics to senior leadership.

Position Purpose

The role is responsible for the effective development and delivery of procurement activity as defined by the major accountabilities.

Procurement is committed to deliver a significant contribution towards Brambles strategic priorities, enabling the markets to win through procurement using breakthrough category strategies, sourcing execution and effective management of the supply base, to support operating margin improvement and competitive advantage.

Procurement categories tend to be complex with varying stakeholder needs, significant external spend and key relationships up to and including executive level. The primary accountability for this role is to drive value through ensuring the commercial elements of spend in designated categories are executed brilliantly with our vendors. This role will lead sourcing programmes in designated categories across the AMET region with senior stakeholders and will apply best‑practice category management techniques to support the maximisation of value, utilising a total cost approach.

The role will be responsible for recommending and implementing activities associated with risk management and sustainability as defined by regional and global strategies.

Procurement is also responsible for supplier management from identified sources to assure quality of delivery and performance, creating improvement plans where required and fostering a continuous improvement culture, whilst adhering to our global decarbonisation goals.

Key Accountabilities

• Delivery of all annual projects and targets in line with agreed strategies; monitoring and reporting on savings vs CAPEX plans; effective delivery of project plans for all savings initiatives.
• Directly manage chosen key strategic categories named above.
• Develop, lead and coach direct report(s) across the AMET region.
• Contribute to business priorities using recognised procurement category management methodologies and models.
• Build effective relationships with all relevant Business Stakeholders to ensure procurement is leveraged early in the process for required goods & services.
• Ensure contract management is undertaken inline with the global procurement policy, mitigating commercial risk in the AMET Region.
• Ensure compliance with the Global Procurement Policy, leveraging the global team’s knowledge and resources.
• Ensure supplier performance & relationship management processes are undertaken as required for categories to improve performance of key suppliers and to ensure business plans are created with strategic suppliers.
• Support continued implementation of the Preferred Supplier Programme across AMET.
• Effective adoption of global procurement systems and processes.

Key Requirements

• Degree in a related field – supply chain, business, engineering or science.
• Minimum 10+ years in procurement.
• CIPS qualification.
• Procurement management experience in a manufacturing or FMCG environment.
• Stakeholder satisfaction focus.
• Supplier management and improvement programmes.
• Implementation and change management of national contracts and programmes.
• Management and use of procurement systems.

Skills and Knowledge

• Professional procurement expertise based on depth of experience and commercial acumen.
• Leading and coaching people.
• Commercial negotiation skills.
• Experience with legal contracting.
• Proven project management and change management experience.
• Ability to challenge, influence and work with cross‑functional teams.

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote

Skills to Succeed in the Role

• Adaptability
• Market analysis
• Active learning
• Responsible sourcing
• Curiosity
• Empathy
• Contract management
• Cost management
• Supplier management
• Supplier performance management
• Risk management
• Strategic procurement
• Category strategy
• Procurement strategy
• Supply‑chain planning systems
• Inter‑functional teamwork
• Problem solving
• Strategic thinking
• Digital literacy
• Negotiation

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing their potential. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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