Senior Procurement Officer Global Grade 10

Job Responsibilities

• Understand category strategies and sourcing plans to support their regional execution.
• Ensure a full understanding of regional buying needs.
• Identify future supply and/or demand issues to ensure a proactive and effective response.
• Provide intelligence on potential or existing issues on orders, requisitions, and delayed deliveries.
• Check accuracy of Framework PR data and ensure that Framework PRs spend is signed off by Category Manager and Business.
• Where contracts are not in place, select suppliers by getting quotations or executing the tender process (with support from relevant Category Analysts).
• Negotiate all RFQs and pricing with the procurement officers.
• Ensure the savings register is managed, kept, and communicated.
• Sign off RFQs, provide guidance on evaluation, and manage POs raised daily, weekly, and monthly.
• Track the orders and report on the order status.
• Follow up with suppliers to ensure correct delivery.
• Inform relevant Category Manager/Analyst about supplier pricing and delivery issues.
• Understand and keep up with macro-trends and regulations in the region and communicate findings with Category Managers/Analysts.
• Communicate supply and demand issues/changes with relevant Category Managers/Analysts, ensuring spend out of contract is managed.

Weekly reporting with business on spends outside contracts.

• Ensure that managers in local plants get the value agreed to from Category Management.
• Link local end users to sourcing actions to ensure new supply agreements are developed and implemented appropriately.

Keep a database of new suppliers that are being introduced.

• Proactively manage operational risks and challenges stemming from regions.

KPIs

• % spend by P2P channel by plant.
• Number of days' reduction in P2P cycle time by plant.
• Number of deviations in good receipts versus PO.
• End user satisfaction.

Minimum Required Qualification:

• Tertiary qualification or CIPS diploma (or equivalent).

Minimum Required Experience:

• Three to five years' experience in procurement.
• Preferably experience in multiple geographies/regions.

Minimum Required Competencies:

Core Competencies:

• Analytical thinking.
• Problem solving.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Applied business numeracy.
• Excellence orientation.
• Ethical behaviour.
• Influencing and negotiation.
• Time and self-management.

Technical Competencies:

• (Further technical competencies could be listed here)